Housing, whether it’s rent or mortgage payments, is probably the biggest single monthly bill that most of us face. And, because we haven’t built enough new hoses for decades, no matter who’s in government, the costs have been getting steeper and steeper. We only add 1 or 2 per cent…
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This article was first published in the Daily Express on 30th September 2018. It is available online here. THE EU thinks that Theresa May’s Chequers plan is a stinker. So far, so normal. They were never going to agree to everything we wanted straight away. And the PM is quite…
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Economists never agree on anything, right? Sometimes not even with themselves: President Truman famously asked for a one-armed economist because he got so fed up with them saying ‘on one hand this, but on the other hand that’. But hang on. Pretty much all of them agree that Britain’s economy…
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I was away on holiday when the Pier caught alight in 2008. Suddenly my phone went mad, with calls from everyone from my Mum to David Cameron’s office. I spoke to Kerry Michael, who was on his way home from Portugal, and agreed to meet him at the site the next day.…
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