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For the next prime minister to solve the UK’s productivity problem, they must attract more foreign...
The Conversation via Yahoo Finance UK· 2 weeks agoThe British economy has a serious productivity problem that will have to be addressed by the next...
Sunak’s Cap on Migration Would Complicate BOE’s Inflation Fight
Bloomberg via Yahoo News UK· 4 weeks ago(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to cap the number of immigrants entering the UK...
Forecasts by the Bank of England and the OBR are drifting apart. Is it a problem?
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 3 months agoEconomic forecasts by the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility are drifting...
More than £80m spent on remote working kit for ‘couch potato’ HMRC staff
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 4 months agoThe taxman purchased over 175,000 laptops, tablet computers, phones, and desktops at a total cost of...
UK economy nearly a third smaller thanks to ‘catastrophically bad’ productivity slowdown
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 4 months agoSince the financial crisis, productivity growth in the UK has slowed significantly from its pre-2008...
Spring Budget 2024: Why the OBR forecasts should be taken with a side of salt
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 4 months agoThese are just forecasts. They will be wrong. This isn't a criticism of the OBR. Forecasting the...
House prices rise defying forecasts of double-digit crash
The Telegraph via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoHouse prices are on track to defy gloomy expectations of a double-digit drop this year. Prices...
The liberal elite’s assumptions about mass migration are crumbling fast
The Telegraph via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoThe liberal orthodoxy on mass immigration must change. Even when it was thought that net migration...
Hunt has raided the piggy-bank for his tax cuts. Will it work?
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 7 months agoBy spending all of the extra inflation windfall in one go, its hard to avoid the conclusion that...
Mass migration has been an economic and political catastrophe
The Telegraph via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoLiving standards have fallen. Net after tax earnings have gone down, and so have the numbers of...