I could imagine plenty of Labour MPs looking at Rayner, then Streeting, and then cornering Miliband to try and twist his arm into taking on the job. (View Post)

I can't think of many countries that are happy with the status quo, so it is baffling that there hasn't been a multilateral move to do something about this. (View Post)

Lots of ideas are bandied around on here, but the main thing is that they have to convince the voters that it's necessary. The pattern in recent budget speeches is to reel off a set of numbers o… (View Post)

And that would be net. Arguably the country could do with a bit more spending on a few priority areas (such as criminal justice, defence and preventing the collapse of social care) so you need to fin… (View Post)

Yes, you'd expect the rate to go down by a lot if a Chancellor was able to pass the many unpopular measures required to balance the budget. There'd be a serious increase in fiscal credibili… (View Post)