The true cost of net zero

The UK government’s new pay-per-mile tax on electric cars will also apply to plug-in hybrid cars, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her long-awaited Autumn Budget. The new charge is set to cost an

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

Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee

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

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

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