Post-brexit border checks to cost £4.7bn. here’s how that money could be better spent

Britain’s Treasury is running on fumes. With the autumn budget a couple of months around the corner, chancellor Rachel Reeves is searching for savings – and as ever, the spectre of increased taxation

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

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

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

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

Pick of the week’s correspondence