UK economic policy
UK economic policy
CapX – Bernanke’s verdict on the Bank of England is withering
Bloomberg – Bernanke Urges BOE to Give Market Clearer Guidance on Rates
FT Adviser – What’s next for inflation?
Centre for Policy Studies – Welcome steps from Hunt, but Britain is still struggling
The Guardian – Fourteen years of Tory economics – ‘major mistakes’ and ‘crisis after crisis’
The Times – Geopolitical risk and the end of cheap money is the new normal
Treasury Select Committee report – Quantitative Tightening
The Telegraph – We might raise interest rates next, says top Bank of England official
The New Statesman – Sadiq Khan’s Brexit baloney won’t fix the economy
The Times – Here come the rate cuts, but economic growth may have to wait
My answers – FT Economist Survey 2024
The Guardian – ‘Ghastly expensive mess’: bond vigilantes return as deficits rise
The Telegraph – This may be the most powerful man in Britain and you probably haven’t heard of him
The Irish Times – What’s eating Britain? A look at the issues gripping its soul
The Times – Ben Bernanke ready to mark Bank of England’s homework
The Sunday Telegraph – Fasten your seatbelts, the global economy is heading for turbulence
Bloomberg – Markets Turn Against UK as Inflation and Growth Outlook Darkens
The Times – For the labour market it is quality not quantity that makes a difference
Financial Times – Investors still need to adjust to a world of higher interest rates
The Times – Bank, like its boss, is missing in action
The Guardian – Rishi Sunak forced to acknowledge control of inflation lies with Bank of England
The Telegraph – Britain caught in ‘growth doom loop’ as private investment lags far behind rest of G7
Bloomberg – Britain Faces Recession and Flood of Job Losses If Rates Hit 6%
The Telegraph – Why the eye-watering cost of Labour’s green pledge didn’t add up
The Times – The Bank must press ‘pause’ on rate rises or risk causing a recession
FT – Rise of ‘shadow credit’ as consumers turn to risky loans
Conservative Home – Public sector net wealth. This new way of looking at the public finances could transform economic policy
Investors Chronicle – Did central banks cause today’s inflation spiral?
Conservative Home – How Britain can prosper in an age of subsidies
The Daily Mail – Economists blame UK’s double-digit inflation on the Bank of England’s money-printing spree – as it sticks at 10.1% and another rate hike looms
Conservative Home – Avoiding recession as the world grapples with high debt
FT Adviser – What’s next for the UK economy?
The Telegraph – Bank of England’s Covid money-printing spree ‘drove up inflation’
The Times – Growth and a tighter financial grip will keep us out of the debt trap
The Telegraph – Britain poised to sign Indo-Pacific trade deal in Brexit victory
Conservative Home – Will there be another global financial crisis?
Netwealth – UK Budget 2023: A £91 billion fiscal boost focused on the supply-side
Conservative Home – A wake-up call to address the City of London’s competitiveness
Conservative Home – Looking for rabbits in Hunt’s Budget hat
The Guardian – How legitimate are the claims in Liz Truss’s 4,000-word Telegraph essay?
Conservative Home – What can be done to get half a million people – and more – back into the labour market?
The Telegraph – Windfall tax raised 25pc less than forecast in December, official data shows
Conservative Home – First globalisation, now fragmentation. Here’s what it means for the world’s economy and ours
Conservative Home – The economy in 2023: the good, the bad and the uncertain
FT – UK economists’ survey
The Times – Annual economics survey
The Sun – Older workers will be persuaded to postpone retirement under government drive to keep people in jobs
The New Statesman – Why is the Bank of England raising interest rates when inflation has peaked?
Conservative Home – The Government may have some room for manoeuvre for higher pay without spooking the markets
Netwealth – The good news is inflation should fall, but it is still unclear where it will settle
FT – The inside story of Liz Truss’s disastrous 44 days in office
BBC News – Eleven gambles that went wrong for Liz Truss
Conservative Home – Is inflation really set to come tumbling down?
Daily Mail – Jeremy Hunt will hit savers in Budget with freeze on tax-free allowances for ISAs despite high inflation
Sky News – Bank of England head Andrew Bailey denies role in Liz Truss’s downfall
Daily Mail – Paris crowned Europe’s biggest stock market as it edges ahead of London: Blow for the City as pandemic plundering takes a heavy toll
Conservative Home: Thursday’s mini-Budget – and the danger of a declining spiral of tax rises, lower growth, declining revenues and spending cuts
Netwealth – A litany of mistakes: modern day UK monetary policy
COP27 – and a new opportunity for the Government to go for green growth
The Guardian – Jeremy Hunt may have little choice but to usher in a new age of austerity
The Guardian – Liz Truss ignored economists’ stark warnings over mini-budget
The House – Liz Truss is right to focus on growth – but fiscal discipline is crucial
BBC News – Is the turmoil Liz Truss’s fault?
The Guardian – ‘Pig’s ear’: Tory press raises doubts about Liz Truss’s future
FT – Ministers must reassure the markets about their growth plan
The Times – There’s a new B-word to avoid: blackouts
The Telegraph – Liz Truss: We should have laid the ground better for mini-Budget
NYT – How the U.K. Finance Minister Came to Ignore Finance Experts
The Telegraph – How top Treasury sacking signalled trouble ahead for Kwasi Kwarteng
FT – Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor who blew up the markets
The Telegraph – Planet Normal: Government ‘mishandled communication over mini-Budget,’ says external Truss adviser
BBC News – Treasury rejects U-turn on mini-budget despite turmoil
FT – Bank of England goes into full crisis management mode
The Telegraph – How Truss and Kwarteng were warned of danger before the pound nosedived
FT – Bank of England warns of risk to UK financial stability as it intervenes in gilt market
Bloomberg – Truss Adviser Says Kwarteng Must Do More to Reassure UK Markets
FT – Kwarteng faces growing Tory criticism after sterling slides
FT – Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal thinking is put to the test
The Sun – TAKING A POUNDING Bank of England warns it could hike interest rates after pound plummets to all time low against dollar
Bloomberg – Defending the Pound: Here Are the BOE’s Risky Options
The Sunday Times – Big Bang 2: Kwarteng’s plan for the City sets up tussle with the Bank of England
The Sunday Times – Liz Truss’s plan for more migrants to boost growth
FT Adviser – Investors face a ‘tug of war’ as a result of mini-Budget
Bloomberg – Truss Adviser Says Bank of England Price Concerns ‘Utter Rubbish’
New Statesman – The meaning of Trussonomics: prevent a recession, then stake everything on growth
The Guardian – Silencing mini-budget analysis will not help Truss woo the markets
Bloomberg – UK Looks at QE Change to Avert £10 Billion Payout to Banks
The Telegraph – Truss tax cuts will spark ‘unsustainable’ surge in debt, claims IFS
Conservative Home – Black Wednesday, 30 years on. What’s similar, what’s different – and what Kwarteng should say on Friday.
The Sunday Times – Kwasi Kwarteng to rip up EU rules to boost the City
The Sunday Times – It may look like heartless Conservatism, but trying to spur growth is morally right
Mail on Sunday – Falling gas prices could slash cost of Liz Truss’s £150billion energy bailout, City experts say
Bloomberg – Liz Truss Is No Margaret Thatcher on Economy, Norman Lamont Says
Bloomberg – UK’s New Chancellor Courts Bankers With Controversial Plan to Lift Bonus Cap
The Sunday Times – Pound slump: how low can sterling go?
The Telegraph – Truss’s energy bill freeze will save Britain from punishing interest rates
The Guardian – Patrick Minford: maverick economist who inspired Truss and Thatcher
Sky News – Trussonomics: The five key points – and will they work?
Conservative Home – Why Truss’s plans for fiscal easing are affordable, non-inflationary – and necessary
The Times – Tax cut plan for high earners is good for us all, insists Liz Truss
The Sun – POWER PLAN: Liz Truss set to unveil £100billion cost-of-living rescue package to ‘make Britain work’ in first week as PM
The Daily Mail – Liz Truss vows to unveil £100billion cost of living plan: Foreign secretary set to announce mammoth support package – including freezing energy bills for millions of homes – if she becomes Tory leader today
The Times – Truss team hold talks on freezing energy bills
FT – Promise to tackle soaring energy bills presents Truss with hard choices
The Sunday Telegraph – Liz Truss: No more sticking plasters to fix the energy crisis
Bloomberg – Truss Vows Support for Britons, Plans Panel of Economic Advisers
The Sun – As Liz Truss prepares to be our next PM she will face one of the toughest in-trays of any peacetime leader
The Sunday Telegraph – It’s time to fix wholesale energy prices
Bloomberg – City of London Sees Potential in Liz Truss’s ‘Radical’ Policies
The Spectator – Trussonomics: a beginner’s guide
FT podcast – Payne’s Politics: Struggling with the energy crisis
Bright Blue magazine – State shifting? – ‘Going for growth’ essay
FT – New UK lender plans 50-year fixed rate mortgages
The Sunday Telegraph – Only Liz Truss will challenge the failed orthodoxy that has fuelled this crisis
FT – The Tories cannot afford to waste any more time
Bloomberg – UK Home Rental Costs Set for More ‘Sharp’ Increases, RICS Says
Daily Mail – Offer 100% mortgages to first-time buyers who have been exemplary renters, ex-economic adviser to Boris Johnson says
The Times – Reliable rent-paying ‘should count towards mortgage applications’
The Telegraph – ‘Complacent’ Rishinomics under the spotlight in showdown to be Prime Minister
Daily Mail – Liz Truss ‘won’t let Whitehall blob block £30billion tax cuts’, as cabinet ally vows the Foreign Secretary will have the final say
The Guardian – Two sides of Trussonomics: tax cuts and higher interest rates
Conservative Home – The candidates need to talk less about tax and much more about growth
The Telegraph – How low can they go? The bidding war defining the Conservative leadership race
The Telegraph – Liz Truss’s tax plans backed by leading economists as ‘needed and not inflationary’
The Times – Conservative Party members still look to Liz Truss
Daily Mail – Liz Truss says tax cuts will turbo-charge the struggling economy. Rishi Sunak says they’ll just fuel inflation. Confused? We asked eight of Britain’s top economists… Who IS right?
Daily Mail – MAGGIE PAGANO: We can but hope grain truce brokered by Turkey and UN is first step towards peace between Russia and Ukraine
The Telegraph – Why Thatcher’s tax cuts are so hard to repeat
The Guardian – Liz Truss’s tax and spending plans sow consternation among economists
The Sunday Times – Tory leadership race: the bitter battle for second place
Bloomberg – UK Conservatives Upend Treasury Orthodoxy in Race for Leadership
Conservative Home – Tax cuts are essential: for growth, supply-side reform, and recovery from the pandemic
The Sunday Telegraph – Penny Mordaunt will deliver the new economic vision that Britain needs
Sky News – Conservative leadership race: Penny Mordaunt latest Tory to launch bid to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister
Bloomberg – UK Tax Cuts Feature at Heart of Race to Replace Johnson
The Telegraph – The Tory contest opens with some welcome tax cut pledges
The Guardian – Boris Johnson has left the UK economy in a parlous state
New Statesman – Boris Johnson promised to “fuck business”, and that’s exactly what he did
Conservative Home – How wage-price spirals work. Prices rise. Workers gain higher pay. Prices rise higher. Workers gain even higher pay…
The Sun – Get out of your groupthink Rishi Sunak … you CAN cut taxes
The Spectator – Is Boris able to stand up to Sunak?
New Statesman – Is Brexit to blame for the UK’s extra inflation?
Mail on Sunday – Taxpayers in the UK are now paying more on national debt interest than on the entire education budget as payments top £100 BILLION a year…or £2,400 per household
The Sunday Times – No 10 listened to business during Covid but now they just want to distract us
The Times – Fiscal policy has a role to play in generating real, sustainable growth
The Independent – Boris Johnson suggests no tax cuts until ‘spiralling’ inflation under control
Daily Mail – Boris Johnson is told to cut taxes NOW to prevent recession as Michael Gove joins chorus of calls for immediate action
Conservative Home – Jobs, vacancies, queues, skills, migration – and the strengths and weaknesses of the labour market
The Sun – Pressure piles on Boris Johnson as hugely respected economist demands he slash taxes
FT Adviser – Could the UK avoid recession this year?
i News – Rishi Sunak did not cost the taxpayer £11bn by inaction, but questions remain over quantitative easing
BBC News – Rishi Sunak accused of wasting billions servicing government debt
FT – Boris Johnson makes boosting economic growth his top priority
The Telegraph – Boris Johnson ignored economic adviser’s calls to suspend green taxes
The Guardian – ‘An electoral liability’: business loses patience with Boris Johnson
Channel 4 News – Debate: Can lower taxes revive the UK’s stalling economy?
Conservative Home – The Chancellor’s measures. He was right to spend more, but we need tax cuts
The Sunday Times – Muzzled? How senior officials fought to water down Sue Gray report
The Telegraph – I warned the Government against a windfall tax
The Telegraph – How Boris Johnson gathered the ‘ammunition’ to get Rishi Sunak to open his wallet
The Guardian – Blast from the Past as Currency Speculators Circle Weakened Pound
Policy Exchange: Spring Statement 2022 Analysis – Dr Gerard Lyons, Ruth Kelly, Connor MacDonald
Conservative Home – Just Because Migration May Pay for Itself Doesn’t Mean that it Should be Uncapped
Conservative Home – Gerard Lyons: Sunak Should Raise the Lower Tax Threshold This Autumn to Put More Money in People’s Pockets
LBC Cross Questions with Iain Dale: Gerard Lyons, Dame Angela Eagle, Fay Jones, Jeevun Sandher
Netwealth – Analysis of the Spring Statement
Financial Times Adviser – Sunak Cuts UK GDP Growth Rate Forecast
Conservative Home – Sunak’s Task Tomorrow. The Best Way of Reducing the Deficit is to go for Growth
The Sun – Stop Sitting on your Hands, Rishi Sunak – Now is the Time to Act
A Long Time In Finance – Britain’s cost of living crisis
The Observer – Bye-Bye to the Big Mac: Russia’s War Heralds a Dark, Isolated Economic Era
ConHome – What Are the Economic and Policy Implications of the War in Ukraine – and What Do They Mean for the UK?
The Times – Sunak Puts Private Sector at the Heart of His Growth-Led Agenda
Conservative Home – Will There be a Sterling Devaluation this Year?
The Telegraph – Tax Raids and Rebates Why Rishi Sunak is ‘Taking with One Hand and Giving With the Other’
Conservative Home – The Treasury Should Focus on Going for Growth as Well as Balancing the Budget
The Telegraph – Inflation Tsunami Threatens Rishi Sunak’s No 10 Dreams
CapX – The Tide Has Turned on Omicron – We Should Get Rid of Plan B Restrictions Now
Conservative Home – How to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis
The Times – Inflation Will Rise but Little to Fear for UK’s Jobs Market
Financial Times Economists’ Survey: People to Feel Worse-Off as Inflation and Tax Rises Bite in 2022
The Spectator – Why Sage Needs Economists
Daily Mail – City of London Group Slumps to £5.8m Half-Year Loss
Conservative Home – Britain Must Go for Growth – Which Means Lower Taxes Now
Evening Standards – Inflation Hits 10-Year High Making Christmas Rates Rise Likely
The Telegraph – Unite Chief Vows to go to ‘the Edge of the Law’ as Unions Turn Militant on Pay
Daily Mail – MPs and City Figures Voice Concerns as Inflation Storm Clouds Gather
Netwealth – UK Budget: Higher Growth, Spending and Taxes
Conservative Home – The Budget. It was Right for the Chancellor to Focus on Providing a Stronger Foundation for Growth
LBC Cross Question with Iain Dale: Gerard Lyons, Ian McCafferty, Carys Roberts, Anne Ashworth
The Times – Chancellor Must Focus on Growth to Restore Confidence in the Economy
Conservative Home – The Three-Arrowed Approach to Economic Policy that Britain Needs
Netwealth – What Happens Next?
The Times – Minister’s Deep Dive for Diversity in City
The Guardian – 10 Days to Save Christmas: Shops Warn of Disruption Due to Lack of Lorry Drivers
The Spectator – What do Michael Gove and Andy Haldane Really Mean by ‘Levelling Up’
The Times – If There Was Ever a Need for a Watershed Moment in the Economy, it is Now
The Guardian – Tories Risk Losing ‘Party of Business’ Status with Tax Hike, Says Sector
Policy Exchange – The UK government and intervention
Netwealth – Would Winning the Euros Boost the UK Economy?
The Guardian – Treasury Wants Us to ‘Live with Covid’ – But What Does That Mean
The Times – Closing the Funding Gap for Small Firms Must be Part of the Levelling-Up Agenda
The Telegraph – Johnson Told to ‘Go into Battle’ for the City After Brussels Power Grab
Reuters – Britain Told to ‘go into Battle’ for the City of London
The Telegraph – Boris Johnson’s Former Economic Adviser Tells PM to go for Growth
Netwealth – A Dozen Things to Know About the UK and World Economy
Netwealth – Analysis of the Budget
Financial Times Adviser – Budget 2021: ‘Swifter’ Bounce Back but OBR Paints Mixed Picture
The Spectator – This Was a Budget for the End of the Covid Crisis
The Guardian – Rishi Sunak Digs in for Battle Against Financial Cost of Covid Spring Budget 2021
CityAM – Unlocking the UK Could Trigger 6 Years of Economic Growth In Just 10 Months
CNBC Interview – Stamp duty tax ‘discourages people from moving,’ says UK economist
Netwealth – A Budget Preview: Why Support Should be the Focus
The Guardian – Calls to Scrap Stamp Duty and Replace With a ‘Fairer’ Property Tax
The Spectator – No, Amsterdam Hasn’t Overtaken the City
The Guardian – How to Turn the UK’s ‘Generation Rent’ into ‘Generation Buy’
The Telegraph – Make Stamp Duty Holiday Permanent or Scrap Tax, Says Former Adviser
The Sunday Telegraph – Don’t wait until zero deaths to ease lockdown
The Sunday Telegraph – We Must Learn to Live With the Coronavirus
Financial Times – 2021 Economic Survey
Evening Standard – £5 Trillion: How Much the Covid-19 Pandemic Cost the Global Economy in 2020
The Times – Think Tank Seeks Prize for Growth
The Guardian – PM Faces Tory Fury After Hints of Longer Lockdown
The Guardian – Move to Pump £100BN into Economy as Fears Rise of Double-Dip Recession
The Times – Rising Unemployment is a Problem That Needs a Package of Solutions
Policy Exchange – Is Thatcherism over?
The Times – PM Sparks Alarm with Plan for 95% Home Loans
The Spectator – Rishi Sunak has Bridge the Economic Gap. But What Comes Next?
The Times – Growth Will Be The Key to Rebuilding the Economy, Not Increasing Taxes
The Spectator – London in Limbo: Can the Capital Survive This Crisis?
i News – VAT Cut Being Considered in Bid to Rescue High Street After Pandemic
Bloomberg – Cut VAT to Boost Embattled U.K. Economy, Darling Says
The Guardian – Former Chancellor Alistair Darling Calls for Emergency VAT Cut
The Telegraph – From Slashing VAT to Delivering Better Broadband, Here’s How to Fix the Economy
BBC News – Public Investment ‘is Key to Escaping Crisis’
CityAM – A Pro-Growth Vision for the UK Economy
The Telegraph – Calls for UK to Copy Germany with VAT Cut and Stimulus
The Times – Recovery Will Come – But How Do We Avoid a Jobs Bloodbath After Coronavirus?
CityAM – Coronavirus Op-Ed
The Sunday Telegraph – The Tories can avoid a Black Wednesday moment in the crisis of Covid-19
The Times – Lifting Lockdown Involves Trade-Offs
The Guardian – A Traffic-Light Exit Strategy May Be the Way to End Lockdown
The Telegraph – It’s Time to Unlock the Lockdown and Trust the Common Sense of the British People
The Telegraph – Rebooting Britain: ‘levelling up’ the regions is more important than ever
The Guardian – The Key Areas to Look at in Easing the UK Coronavirus Lockdown
The Times – Lockdowns are Different, and Ending it Will be the Hard Part
The Telegraph – Britain Could be the Western Economy Hardest Hit by Coronavirus Unless we Can Unlock Soon
The Telegraph – Boris Johnson’s Former Economic Adviser Tells PM to go for Growth
Financial Times – Johnson Faces Cabinet Split on Lifting Lockdown