For all the Shadow Chancellor’s efforts to pose as the voice of fiscal discipline, pressure for higher spending from her colleagues and party continue to add up.
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
Lumping more onto the UK’s tax burden – already at the highest sustained level seen in peacetime – cannot be the answer.
The Budget was, if truly honest, a sign that the Government shuns spending cuts and embraces tax rises – which is ultimately unsustainable.
Needed during the coming weeks: a Government information campaign for older people, their families, employers and businesses.
We unleashed Nick Timothy on the world as a columnist. Meet the husband-and-wife combo of Rachel Wolf and James Frayne.
If we instituted the measure I propose, it would do more to help young people become homeowners than anything proposed by the target-obsessed.