4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (198+ words) Ministers insist local leaders “won’t want to price themselves out of the market,” but that is precisely the kind of vague reassurance that has done little to calm an industry already reeling from two years of Labour tax raids. The…...

5+ day, 56+ min ago   (579+ words) Markets Deliver Their Verdict on Healey's Fiscal Credibility as Britain Pays Highest Borrowing Rate Since 1998 conservativepost.co.uk Investors have just handed John Healey the most expensive lesson in fiscal credibility any Chancellor has received since Britain started keeping proper…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (996+ words) It marks the first annual decline recorded by the index since November 2023. Prices also slipped by 0.2 per cent during August itself, following a 0.1 per cent fall in July, despite economists having expected a modest increase. Perhaps more concerning than the…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1536+ words) Government borrowing costs surged last week, with the yield on benchmark 10-year gilts touching 5.294 per cent on Wednesday, its highest level since August 2007. Britain has been caught up in a wider international bond sell-off, intensified by renewed conflict in the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (349+ words) Timothy did not mince his words: “Labour has shown an unacceptable disregard for transparency and accountability by deleting the evidence behind a definition which they want the entire public and private sector to adopt.” He went further still, warning of…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (147+ words) Even the balloon animals are confused. Which brings us neatly to Granny. And behind all this sits the question Labour never quite manages to escape, how much taxation is too much? You would need the flexibility of a circus contortionist…...