This being spring statement week, the focus is inevitably on what the Chancellor Rachel Reeves may do to safeguard her much maligned fiscal rules. Not…
This being spring statement week, the focus is inevitably on what the Chancellor Rachel Reeves may do to safeguard her much maligned fiscal rules. Not…
This article first appeared in the Telegraph. A fear of risk-taking is undermining Rachel Reeves’s attempt to boost the UK economy, City chiefs have warned. A…
With the emphasis now on regulators prioritising growth, the government must be aware of pitfalls, and not only for financial stability… — Following Rachel Reeves’…
Over the past three years, bank lending to productive industries — what we might call the “real economy”— has consistently declined, with 2023 seeing a…
Alastair Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0 Radix Big Tent has responded to last night’s announcement by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, that she intends to consolidate public…
Matthew d’Ancona is correct to say in The promise and the threat (TNE #396) that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules will “as things stand” see…
The Conservatives seek to frame pretty much every general election (with the exception of “Get Brexit Done”) as Tory tax cuts versus Labour spend. …
I am circulating this campaign suggestion based on a letter Richard Murphy and I had published in the Guardian during the winter break. It said: Its importance to my mind is…
Rachel Reeves deludes herself if she thinks that ruling out a wealth tax will demonstrate Labour’s economic competence to most voters, when clearly what most…