From the lobby
After pulling her Brexit deal away from MPs before Christmas for fear they would tear it apart, Theresa May bowed to the inevitable this month....
Budget 2018: New swings and broken roundabouts
The first thing that can be said about the recent Budget is that it was better than some of its predecessors. That is, it didn’t...
Haggis, neeps and taxes
One thousand and seventy-four pounds: that’s the extra tax someone in Scotland earning £75,000 is now paying every year for the privilege of living north...
With friends like these, who needs enemies…
A total bloody mess.” Only a very few people are privy to Theresa May’s thoughts – the Prime Minister is as reticent in private as...
The government’s war on the self-employed will backfire
VAT has already been pushed about as high as it can go. Corporation tax is coming down to help keep the UK economy competitive after...
From the lobby: Fractures, fissures and the future of the self-employed
With an EU transition deal finally agreed and pretty much all politicians (with the vocal exception of comrade Corbyn) united in their condemnation of Russia,...