The tories stare into the abyss

The past week has been “pivotal” for this government, says Tim Shipman in The Spectator. It turns out that growth is not, as it claims, its “top priority”, nor is the cost of living or protecting “wor

“Is Britain having a collective nervous breakdown?” asks Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times. Almost two-thirds of voters think we are heading in the wrong direction, while our government has “go

Taxes are up – a lot: another £26bn a year by 2029, drawing millions more into higher tax bands. That’s almost as big as the £32bn raised in last autumn’s Budget, with its job-destroying increase on e

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The autumn Budget was less the promised “reboot of UK capital markets” and “more a light dusting of the keyboard”, says Tim Focas in City AM. A three-year stamp duty holiday for new listings is all ve