Crucially, a minimum wage does not ‘make work pay’ if you are unemployed. Until the Government obtain a full grasp of the truth, that it is businesses that create jobs, it will continue to drive young ...

New research by Freshwater Strategy finds that voters support the UK allowing AI models to learn from publicly available ...

Reform are beginning to prove that they have a distinct economic agenda of their own In a move intended to signal Reform UK’s ...

Say what you like about him – and I often do – but Tony Blair remains inescapable. Perhaps that is why, almost 30 years after he first entered No.10 as Prime Minister, Channel 4 has a new three-part ...

Numbers don’t lie. In the 12 months to the end of January 2023, the UK lost more than 130,000 payrolled jobs – unlike the ...

The Home Secretary at the time, William Joynson-Hicks, was hostile to the nightclub scene. He ordered raids on dozens of ...

We need energy to survive. Without it, we would be trapped in poverty. Billions of people around the world still are. Poverty is, essentially, energy poverty. To continue to thrive, warm our homes, ...

The greater danger for the Bank is not that it repeats the mistakes of the past, but that it remains so focused on the last war that it fails to see the next one approaching. Central banking is ...

If their last manifesto is anything to go by, the Liberal Democrats are determined to throttle growth ...

Islington has 41 separate ‘conservation areas’, covering about 50% of its area. These zones have even more stringent planning rules and restrictions, making even modest extensions nightmarish and ...

Enter the cult of ‘social value’. As I noted recently, the inclusion of social value as a core metric for the Palace’s ...

When nearly eight in 10 employers are pessimistic about the economy and fewer than a fifth would recommend Britain as a place ...