Is there hope for britain’s economy in 2025?

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

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

Issue of the week: a Budget for business? ...

The long run-up to the Budget gave rise to fevered and increasingly alarmist speculation about its contents. This descended into chaos as frantic lobbying by interested parties, dire warnings by exper

The Budget: the main points The Chancellor majored on ...

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