What is Kwasi Kwarteng really up to? One answer: this is a reckless gamble to shrink the state
27/09/2022
In the US they call it ‘starving the beast’ – cut taxes and, as revenue decreases, you create irresistible pressure for austerity.
In historical terms, however, those transgressions will end up being little more than footnotes. Viewed from afar, Johnson’s greatest failing is liable to be what he hoped would be his glorious legacy: Brexit.
We desperately need to rejoin the single market and customs union, whatever the former PM thinks.
Brexit Britain: Here's what the financial markets tell us about the economy effects of leaving the EU – Professor David McMillan
27/01/2022
A year after Britain left the European Union, you could be forgiven for thinking the current economic gloom has nothing to do with Brexit, and everything to do with Covid.
Higher yields are helping the U.S. currency; not so for sterling, which is coming adrift from the developed world entirely.
Fake news handed Brexiteers the referendum – and now they have no idea what they're doing
18/01/2017
'Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without...the NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests no. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the single market? No way'
Food prices will go up, not down, after a no-deal Brexit – despite what Jacob Rees-Mogg says
07/01/2019
Could Brexit mean cheaper food on our supermarket shelves? The idea has been propagated by politicians such as Jacob Rees-Mogg and business people like JD Wetherspoon’s owner Tim Martin, who promised lower prices in his “Beermat Manifesto”.