Jonty Bloom
03 January 2024
The government’s start to 2024 shows how desperate it is
From pints of champagne to a war on foreign students, it’s more dismal stuff
Read the full article03 January 2024
Suez, 2024 style – the latest Brexit benefit
Rwanda and Brexit leave Britain facing a humiliation not seen since 1956 – with empty shelves and economic angst at home
Read the full article31 December 2023
The Euro is 25. It isn’t perfect, but it has prospered
Germany has dominated too much and Greece should never have been allowed to join
Read the full article24 December 2023
Brexit means an unhappy new year for Britain’s food industry
More red tape will make life more difficult for producers - and more expensive for us
Read the full article22 December 2023
Councils will pay the price for Tory tax cuts
Local authorities can expect increasingly large cuts in the years to come as the Conservatives seek to fund their tax agenda
Read the full article20 December 2023
The year in Brexit
Despite endless promises of post-EU jam tomorrow, Rishi Sunak’s government has been forced to eat humble pie over the last 12 months
Read the full article16 December 2023
David Cameron’s U-turn on Brexit is truly embarrassing
The foreign secretary is deluded if he really believes that leaving the EU is “functioning well”
Read the full article13 December 2023
Pandering to the far right on immigration will bring economic disaster
The government’s migration plans are a cruel mess that will harm British business – and they know it
Read the full article12 December 2023
The economy is heading towards a crisis at Christmas
High wage growth means tough choices ahead for the Bank of England
Read the full article06 December 2023
The Guardian’s in-house Brexit apologist
Why does the newspaper continue to publish Larry Elliot’s Corbynite nonsense on the EU?
Read the full article05 December 2023
Spiteful Sunak has ensured there is no money left – but here’s how Starmer could grow the economy
From planning laws to better skills to a proper industrial strategy, all is not quite lost for Britain
Read the full article02 December 2023
David Cameron is a failure – but even he is showing up Rishi Sunak
The ex-PM is close to a deal with Spain on Gibraltar, while the current one sulks over Greece
Read the full article29 November 2023
Rishi Sunak’s big business bash was just smoke and mirrors
Another gambit by the prime minister has ended with big boasts and little substance
Read the full article27 November 2023
Badenoch’s post-Brexit trade fantasies have been exposed again
The trade secretary's post-Brexit trade deals do plenty for her profile, but very little for the British economy
Read the full article25 November 2023
Could an independent Scotland make it inside the EU?
Perhaps – but the problems would be immense and the economic damage severe
Read the full article22 November 2023
Jeremy Hunt’s smoke and mirrors can’t hide high tax and low growth
No wonder the chancellor skipped over damning forecasts in his autumn statement
Read the full article22 November 2023
Post-Brexit Britain has been captured by the FDI
Foreign Direct Investment is a key economic indicator – and it indicates that Britain is in big trouble
Read the full article22 November 2023
A new report reveals the huge and lasting economic costs of Brexit
Ever wondered why your taxes are so high and public services are in such a poor state? Now you know
Read the full article15 November 2023
Glory-stealing Rishi Sunak has very little to do with falling inflation
Price rises are finally slowing because of oil and gas, not because of the PM
Read the full article15 November 2023
The Brexit ship of fools
The thinktank behind Liz Truss’s mini-budget now claims leaving the EU hasn’t harmed UK trade
Read the full article15 November 2023
Millennials are getting poorer – and the government is to blame
New research shows people aged 30 are earning 8% less than their Gen X counterparts
Read the full article08 November 2023
Rishi Sunak has blown another big chance with a King’s Speech that ignored Britain’s financial woes
This was the time to tackle failing apprenticeships and the lack of an industrial strategy - it didn’t happen
Read the full article07 November 2023
Brexit is causing medicine shortages
The supply of drugs, including of antibiotics, is being squeezed
Read the full article06 November 2023
There’s trouble in store for post-Brexit Britain
Thanks to higher costs, increased red tape and supply chain damage, we must get used to living in a country with empty shelves
Read the full article04 November 2023
Britain’s scraps from the EU table
Post-Brexit Britain slides ever-further down the EU’s list of priorities
Read the full article02 November 2023
Why is Britain running out of eggs?
In 2022, Britain produced a billion fewer eggs than in 2019. The knock-on effects of that shortfall are huge
Read the full article01 November 2023
Inheritance tax is fair: scrapping it would benefit only the wealthiest
Only the richest 4% will pay it, but everyone seems to hate it. Now it is in the government’s sights
Read the full article30 October 2023
Britain needs to pay higher taxes
Want to know why? Just go abroad
Read the full article25 October 2023
Sunak celebrates his first year by lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses – and we’ll all pay for it
In trying to lure back financiers who left because of Brexit, the PM is opening Britain up to a new financial crisis
Read the full article24 October 2023
The government should blame itself for rising unemployment – instead it’s blaming the unemployed
Bad policies creating low growth are behind Britain’s poor job numbers, not feckless ex-workers
Read the full article21 October 2023
Replacing HS2 with empty promises
The high speed rail plan was cancelled with promises that new projects would replace it. As yet, there is no plan
Read the full article18 October 2023
We are running out of money
The latest analysis by the IFS makes for sobering reading
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