King Charles III
King Charles III was crowned last week at Westminster Abbey, the first new Monarch the United Kingdom has had in more than seven decades. The man who, for the longest… Read more »
Category: Cost of Living
Hunt’s Maiden Budget
Jeremy Hunt this week announced his first budget in the Commons. There is little support for working people in it, but includes a tax break fro the top 1%
Short: The NHS in Crisis
Winter is upon us, and with it always comes challenges for our National Health Service. Each winter, the NHS experiences higher volumes of patients as illnesses such as flus spread… Read more »
Short: Who’s House? Hunt’s House
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has scrapped nearly every measure set out in last month’s “mini-budget”. Markets might be calm, but the Government is in free fall
Kwarteng U-Turns: Dire Tory Prospects
The Treasury’s U-turn on the 45p top tax rate has been welcomed by the markets and the public, but it has only worsened the Truss Government’s terrible optics
Short: Kwarteng’s Gamble
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng recently announced economic measures to curb the cost of living crisis. It is classic trickle-down economics, and the markets seem to agree.