Britain is on the road to nowhere

François Bayrou, the beleaguered French prime minister, has said that the 8 September confidence vote in parliament, which is expected to go against him and his budget proposals, will not decide “the

Sovereign bond yields are ringing some alarm bells about the UK’s economic and fiscal outlook

Starmer’s relaunch Controversy of the week “Delivery, ...

The run up to the Budget in November has already been dominated by headlines about a “meltdown” in the bond market and a yawning “£50bn” black hole that will have to be filled by more tax increases. S

The “most hated” tax Controversy of the week ...

What are wealth taxes? Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are