Britain’s coming house-price crash

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 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

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

If a foreign power – or aliens – wanted to wreck our economy, why waste time and money on firepower? All they would have to do is cut off our access to funny-money credit. Auto sales would stop. House

What happened In a series of media briefings, the ...