There is almost a risk of a paradox: that any acts of spending restraint visible and significant enough to calm the markets ...

Mr Miller, for example, has said that mass removals would create jobs for Americans and increase wages. Whether that proves ...

The use of borrowing to buy these could, without intervention, have brought the whole system down. Hence Labour’s charge that ...

History will not be as kind to Donald Trump if he gets Greenland from Denmark under duress. On January 7th the ...

Rachel Reeves downplayed the prospect of further tax rises after last year’s record-breaking £40bn Budget, calling it a “once ...

Canada’s labour market likely continued to underperform compared to a “resilient” US market in the last month of 2024, ...

Labour will be forced to launch further tax raids before the next election due to weak growth during its government, leading ...

This comes as long-term UK borrowing costs have surged, and the pound has plummeted – a combination that signals investors have lost confidence in the government’s ability to manage debt and control ...

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander will decide whether to greenlight growth proposals from Luton and Gatwick by the end of April, in a test of the tensions between the Labour government’s twin ...

Hence Labour’s charge that the Tories ‘crashed the economy’. Keir Starmer’s Government, with its big Commons majority, came to office promising to restore economic stability and cut the ...