The tory government wasted £131 billion of taxpayer cash from 2019 to 2024. here’s how that money could’ve been better spent

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? ...

“Has Rachel Reeves taken leave of her senses?” asks Annabel Denham in The Telegraph. Within the space of a week the chancellor has “veered from glum warnings” about Britain’s “miserable fiscal predica

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 ...