GB News Interview
It was good to be interviewed on GB News, discussing my career and the economic challenges facing the UK. Watch below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha8AZLJqvB4
Sky News Ian King Live interview
It was good to be interviewed by Ian King about the financial markets and how I warned the Government how febrile the markets were. Listen here, from 01:30-09:36 minutes.
FT Letter: An economist, outside the tent, looking in
This letter was first published in the Financial Times - 21st October 2022. I would like to clarify some misunderstanding of my role as an outside economist (“Jeremy Hunt reinforces return to ‘orthodoxy’ with Economic Advisory Council”, Report, October 19). As an outside economist, my views are...
Netwealth: UK economic outlook: recession beckons as policy tightens
This column was first published on Netwealth - 20th October 2022. This column is not going to comment on the political problems engulfing the UK. You will be able to draw your own conclusions from that ever-changing environment. But political uncertainty is hanging over the UK outlook, although...
The global backdrop: slowdown inevitable
This was first published on Netwealth - 20 October 2022. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just released their global economic outlook. It makes sober reading. But it may yet prove too optimistic about the year ahead. As the chart shows, the IMF sees the world economy slowing from its...
CGTN Europe interview
Good to be interviewed on CGTN Europe discussing the UK economy.
Conservative Home op-ed: Pro-growth is replaced by stability, and a recession will be the result
This article was first published on Conservative Home - 18th October 2022. The economy is heading for a deep recession and a number of years of weak economic growth. Unemployment, currently low, will rise. Living standards will stagnate. The era of cheap money, which has lasted excessively since...
Politico: Westminster Insider podcast
I joined this week's Westminster Insider podcast: Trussonomics and the 1972 ‘Dash for Growth’. The host Jack Blanchard speaks to myself and other economists Paul Johnson and Soumaya Keynes as well as historians Duncan Needham and Nick Thomas-Symonds. Listen here.
The House magazine op-ed
This article was first published in The House magazine - 13th October 2022 The mini-Budget was poorly handled. If it had just stuck to what was announced during the leadership campaign, it would have been fine. The United Kingdom was the only G7 country unwisely raising taxes going into a global...
Times Radio interview
I spoke to Times Radio earlier, echoing much of what I've said already including how the mini-budget should have just clarified what the markets had discounted: i.e. reversing the two planned tax increases and the energy package. Listen back here, from 12:12:07 - 12:20:31