Everything Mr Burnham says is geared to polling and to his immediate political task, self defined as seeing off the voting threat from Reform. As Prime Minister he will be judged more by what he does than what he says.
More than half our imports come from the EU. To get economic growth we would achieve more if we concentrated on import reduction from Europe including the EU by making and growing more at home. Let’s start with oil, gas and electricity, and move onto backing our farms and market gardens to grow more of what we need to cut the food miles.
Why is a party that is called Labour and has a great past tradition of standing up for workers in industrial settings so unwilling to engage and to find a solution to the mass retreat from making materials and finished products in the UK?
When markets forced up the interest rates in 2022 Rachel Reeves said Liz Truss had crashed the economy Reeves said 4.38 per cent for ten year money was too high. We have to report now that her own measure and words Rachel Reeves has crashed the economy.
Unlike the ex-Chancellor, Truss will speed more people on their personal journeys as training, education, self-employment, and opportunity come to touch many more.
Ministers should be charged with the task of raising the quality and volume of output we get for the large resources the state commits.
We need a supply-side strategy from the whole of government to produce more energy, food, and other goods and services.
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces an uphill battle against entrenched attitudes in almost every relevant department.
Slowing the economy too much this spring will cut tax revenue. They could end up with a bigger deficit from too tough a squeeze.
They have the power to change the law if the old laws get in their way. They can command huge resources of people, money and message.
In the early days of his premiership, Johnson asked me how she had done things. Here’s what I said.
Its main difficulties surround the related issues of getting Brexit done, cutting low and no skilled migration and keeping taxes down.
Ministers have no sufficient answers to the question: ‘how do we keep the lights on?’
The present division of responsibility helps individuals avoid accountability, and taxpayers pay for it.
This constitutional experiment has failed, not least because there is no such thing as ‘the science’.