Brexit crippled the UK economy – Liz Truss just made it worse | Economics | New Statesman [5 mins]
22/10/2022
Economist Duncan Weldon and the New Statesman’s polling expert explore how Brexit and austerity have damaged the UK economy and set the stage for Liz Truss’s “mismanagement.”
PMQs: Boris Johnson refuses to cut VAT on energy bills despite Brexit promise that he would [3 mins]
05/01/2022
Boris Johnson has refused to cut VAT on fuel bills amid a huge rise in the cost of energy, despite promising ahead of the EU referendum that Brexit would allow him to do so.
Flustered Boris Johnson confronted over his own Brexit pledge to cut VAT on energy bills [3 mins]
04/01/2022
The Prime Minister claimed in 2016 that 'when we Vote Leave, we will be able to scrap this unfair and damaging tax' - but since taking power he's done nothing about it.
Pressure mounting for breakthrough ahead of EU leaders’ video conference.