By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read Why there is no chance of spending being covered by revenue by 2029 in compliance with Labour’s ‘iron’ fiscal rule LABOUR HAS lost control of the public finances. Day-to-day costs have been increasing. There was a ‘black hole’ but not the one claimed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Labour [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read THE UK’S DEBT is already nearly the same size as the whole UK economy and is continuing to increase. The Labour Government’s plan to introduce a new measure of it, so as to understate it, is already so far from reality it cannot fool the public, investors, and public [...]
By Kathy Gyngell – 5 minute read REPRESENTATIVES from London and Brussels will meet next Monday for Starmer’s Brexit Reset summit. Astonishingly there has been next to no coverage in the mainstream press of the most fundamental aspect of Starmer’s betrayal – his big defence (by definition sovereignty) sell-out of the 17.4million pro-Brexit votes being planned. The Telegraph has commented on a ‘leaked draft of a new security partnership [that] commits the UK [...]
By Kathy Gyngell – 4 minute read PREPARATIONS for Sir Keir Starmer’s EU ‘surrender summit’ next Monday, May 19, continue apace. Reports indicating that a joint commitment to the ECHR will be made, that UK negotiators are exploring plans to pay into the EU budget in exchange for access to the Single Market, that a leaked draft has steered clear of the term ‘illegal’ migration, referring to it instead as ‘irregular’ migration in a softening in the [...]
By Kathy Gyngell – 4 minute read NEXT WEEK Sir Keir Starmer will announce a resetting of the UK’s relationship with the EU. As explained in Part 1 of this series on Labour’s big defence sell-out, this is likely to mean our surrender to EU dominance under their ‘third state’ or ‘associated state’ rules. So far only one other non-EU state [...]
