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It used to be a strong requirement that no-one in the know leaked anything about the budget. When I was Margaret Thatcher’s adviser I read draft budget papers in controlled conditions in No 10 to protect me and the budget from any leaks. I usually gave my advice to the PM one to one in person. Like the few others who did see the budget papers we never spoke to the...
The government is having a go at removing juries from most trials, demolishing a fundamental right of all freeborn English people to a trial judged by representatives of the public. It sits easily with their wish to put us under international, EU and code law, to marginalise the flexibility and commonsense of common law, and to put a class of technocratic governors and spies ...
Since 2010 Scotland has grown consistently more slowly than the UK as a whole. This is thanks to its distinctive policies. It spends more per head on the public sector than England. It borrows more per head ( via the UK) as it spends more than the UK as a whole per head. It believes in green growth and has subsidised and given permissions for substantial renewable...
The Chancellor looked both ways on battery cars. Under pressure no doubt from Mr Miliband she put up the subsidy for people to buy expensive battery cars to £2 bn, and is exempting cars up to £50,000 from the extra VED dearer petrol cars have pay. Meanwhile, seeing the hole in revenues from petrol and diesel tax in future years if battery cars do take off &n...
The budget was meant to be a boost to growth. Instead it was another big transfer of money from a struggling and burdened private sector to pay for a bloated and inefficient state.£30 bn for Mauritius and Chagos. £20 bn a year for Bank of England losses. A welcome for many thousands of illegal migrants with their big hotel bills. Endorsement for putting many more people onto ...
