By Ewen Stewart – OH DEAR, I’ve just spent the last two minutes watching a video where Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt cheerfully explains what he thinks has caused inflation and what he’s doing about it. Don’t waste two minutes of your precious time on it. He blames everyone but himself for this crisis. He's wrong, here's why...
By Catherine McBride – INHERITANCE TAX is not only double taxation on the middle classes, it is an expensive and ineffective way of raising government revenue and if abolished could release an entrepreneurial age.
by Catherine McBride – SOME MEMBERS of the House of Lords have written a letter to the Times complaining the retained EU regulations will be removed by ministers without any scrutiny – without mentioning many of the regulations would have been added to the UK statue book without any scrutiny
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read THIS WEEK the ONS published its monthly employment data to a fanfare of approval. Unemployment is close to a 50-year low – employment participation rates are rising – and so are wages. Lockdown can be forgotten. Apparently it's business as usual. Well at face value it’s hard to [...]
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read FINALLY JOINING the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) will be a great moment for our Global Britain. As our research has shown over more than two decades of studying the ONS export data, the real economic growth the UK has to tap into and benefit [...]
