The country is living beyond its means. The budget deficit is high and national debt is set to rise significantly. That’s the ...

For some years, this did not matter. Labour benefited from a favourable inheritance, and much of the public wanted Blair to ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is short on options. She seems unlikely to meet her fiscal rules unless something changes, and with ...

Norman Tebbit, one of the greatest prime ministers we never had, has died at the age of 94.  An MP from 1970 until 1992, for many people, Norman Tebbit will be remembered – for good or ill – as the ...

Last week, NHS GPs began prescribing Mounjaro for weight loss for the first time. But for many people reaching out to their doctor, the response is likely to be disappointing – the NHS has made it ...

In politics, as in life, good intentions aren’t enough – it is outcomes that matter. While Labour’s goal of building 1.5 million new homes and improving Britain’s infrastructure is commendable, their ...

Last month, Friedrich Merz was sworn in at the head of a new government in Germany, promising a new era of lower taxes, higher growth and tougher migration policy. In many respects, this is standard ...

Zohran Mamdani, the person who defeated Cuomo in the primaries and is now seen as a mayoral contender for New York – the beating heart of capitalism – recently declared in an interview: ‘I don’t think ...

The £1 trillion British tech sector is displaying its wares at London Tech Week. As President of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), I’m thrilled we’re gathering in the same ...

A Chancellor’s Spending Review is a chance to set out the Government’s fiscal priorities for the years ahead, and signal which political issues are most important. But there was one giant, gaping hole ...

Last weekend, I was back home in North Essex celebrating my Grandad’s 88th birthday. I reflected on what the Britain of his childhood looked like – a nation of grafters, shaped by hardship, who ...

At the beginning of the year, Keir Starmer claimed that opposition politicians calling for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs were on the ‘bandwagon of the far-right’. Now he is apparently on ...