Any changes to the pension reliefs are going to be counterproductive. You need to encourage saving for retirement - most higher rate taxpayers aren’t wealthy by any means. For those that are higher e… (View Post)

Well, a lot to digest today. I am not sure this was an altogether assured performance from Labour. They’ve come out of this looking rather muddled. We can debate the rights and wrongs of the winter f… (View Post)

If Harris has a smooth VP pick and a good convention then it is looking like she’ll still be carrying the momentum well into mid August. By that stage we would expect to be seeing the dial shift a li… (View Post)

Yes, but of course we were all aware in 2010 that the Tories were going to reduce spending. That was one of the central planks of the election campaign. The point I am making is Labour didn’t tell us… (View Post)

The biggest problem Labour have coming down the tracks as far as I can see is all the consequences of the ming vase strategy coming home to roost at the budget. They deliberately did not try to sell … (View Post)