It would have been a bad sign if the budget was popular. The budget I was hoping for would have been even less popular. Now they need to make it work. (View Post)

The state pension is around the same ballpark as the personal allowance and working a 16 hour week at the minimum wage. Could we link all three? (View Post)

Truss forgot the first and most important Thatcherite lesson - you can't buck the market. I remember quite clearly the astonishment I felt when, during one of the leadership debates, she blithel… (View Post)

What I took from it is that a legal framework has been created where it is very hard to stay on the right side of the law 100% of the time. So if you annoy the wrong person they can find a way to set… (View Post)

It's a veritable rollercoaster, and a good practice run for the US results for the rest of the month. It's a shame they won't announce the Conservative leadership election results one … (View Post)