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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      UK economic growth
      Britain should not accept its status as the ‘sick man of Europe’

      The country has economic problems, but there are solutions if only politicians would grasp the nettle

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      UK public finances
      Jeremy Hunt leads chastened Conservatives back to ‘Treasury orthodoxy’

      The chancellor has peered into the abyss and must now pull the economy back from danger

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      UK business & economy
      Outlier Britain needs a credible economic plan in a hurry

      The chancellor broke a cardinal rule at times of market stress — he must now come up with stabilising fiscal policies

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Pound Sterling
      The British should stop being so relaxed about the weak pound

      Devaluation carries a cost, one which has potentially increased over time

    • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
      UK tax
      Raising UK national insurance levy is good politics but bad economics

      Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced more than £40bn of tax increases this year, nearly two-thirds of which will be borne by business

    • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill meetings wasted time amid pandemic, says ex-Treasury head

      Macpherson criticism comes as former City minister suggests finance group’s collapse could cost UK taxpayers £1bn

    • Friday, 27 March, 2020
      ReviewPolitical books
      Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot — prudence and caution

      John Lloyd engagingly sets out Scotland’s failure to prepare for secession

    • Sunday, 24 March, 2019
      UK infrastructure
      Ex-Treasury chief says HS2 would fail cost-benefit analysis

      Nick Macpherson also warns technology likely to be outdated by time it becomes fully operational

    • Saturday, 9 February, 2019
      UK industrial strategy
      The UK must learn from its interventionist failures

      Industrial policy relies on sectoral strategies and subsidies, but that is a huge mistake

    • Friday, 23 March, 2018
      UK employment
      Pay rises will not solve Britain’s productivity problem

      The government may have declared victory on living standards, but we have been here before

    • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
      Martin Wolf
      The expensive truth about high-quality healthcare

      Politicians should admit that to keep a treasured system taxes will have to rise

    • Friday, 9 February, 2018
      UK social care
      NHS finances can be fixed by breaking with Treasury orthodoxy

      Voters like a tax earmarked for services they value. We should give it to them

    • Tuesday, 26 December, 2017
      Brexit
      Brexit damage can be limited, says former Treasury head

      Architect of ‘Project Fear’ calls on government to ‘look forwards not back’

    • Friday, 8 December, 2017
      Brexit
      Gove: ‘Theresa May won’
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2017
      UK public finances
      Budget 2017: Hammond passes up a chance to be radical

      The British chancellor played it safe but could still prove to be his party’s saviour

    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2017
      Brexit
      Civil servants lament Theresa May’s ‘wasted year’ over Brexit

      Mandarins accuse No 10 of stifling policy debates and alienating EU partners

    • Friday, 16 June, 2017
      UK public finances
      Now is not the time to fall out of love with austerity

      Like it or not, we cannot wish away our public finance problems

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2017
      UK general election
      Joseph Chamberlain sets the Tories a bad example

      On the big national issues of his day, he was on the wrong side of history

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
      UK public finances
      Theresa May urged to break promise not to raise taxes

      Former Treasury head says revenue and pension locks will mean permanent deficit

    • Monday, 6 March, 2017
      Janan Ganesh
      Philip Hammond’s job is to be the slayer of bad ideas

      The UK chancellor shares the Treasury’s suspicion of grand schemes

    • Friday, 3 March, 2017
      UK Budget
      The power of political theatre explains Budget’s enduring mystique

      Some unravel, some prove historic, but all point to a promised land years away

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2017
      Brexit
      May faces calls to appoint pro-Brexit EU ambassador

      Demands follow resignation of ‘frustrated’ Sir Ivan Rogers

    • Friday, 25 November, 2016
      UK business & economy
      Backstage power struggles in a long-running Whitehall drama

      Chancellor and prime minister are players in a rivalry to pull the economic strings

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2016
      UK honours system
      Cameron rewards Osborne in honours list

      More than 50 of former prime minister’s allies included in awards

    • Monday, 11 July, 2016
      UK politics opinion polls
      Europeans would support Scotland joining EU – poll
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