During my time as a Member of Parliament, I warned for years about what higher taxes, more regulations and out-of-control state spending would do to our economy and society. We are seeing the consequences now. But this piece isn’t about that. This article is about the need to secure a paradigm shift in the UK […]
Some issues in public life should be very easy: safeguarding children as an absolute priority is one of them. Avoiding heaping shame on the innocent is another. The longstanding principles of justice in our country ought to make both ideas apparent. And yet, as the Telegraph sets out, in some parts of our country those charged […]
Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is expected on Monday to give a statement on public spending ‘pressures’ amounting to tens of billions of pounds. It is not credible to suggest this will be a surprise, as Paul Johnson of the IFS explained on the Today programme (07:37). Either it will be a restatement […]
