by Sam | 3 Dec 2014 | Economy, General Election 2015
Borrowing up by £5bn this year and £7bn next year. Deficit reduction targets missed. Debt rising next year to 81.1% as a share of national income. It’s not a great score sheet, is it? Yet if you tuned in to George Osborne’s big speech today, you’d be easily fooled for...
by Sam | 3 Dec 2014 | Economy, General Election 2015
The defining issue of this Parliament has always been whether the economy would recover before the next election. And it has. Just four years ago Britain was on the brink. Labour had collected £5 trillion in taxes and borrowed half a trillion more. Labour had more...
by Sam | 1 Dec 2014 | Economy
George Osborne will deliver the final Autumn Statement of this Parliament on Wednesday. The press has been working overtime to discern what might appear in it – aided at times by the PM and Chancellor. Here are five key announcements I expect to appear: 1. A £2...
by Sam | 28 Nov 2014 | General Election 2015
As the Labour leader has stumbled from self-inflicted calamity to self-inflicted calamity in recent weeks, there has emerged among some Tory MPs and minor bloggers a “Save Ed” movement. They must dedicate themselves, they feel, to ensuring Ed Miliband remains leader...
by Sam | 27 Nov 2014 | Sport
Greg Dyke has questions to answer about the FA’s ethical approach, argues Whitehouse Chairman Chris Whitehouse in his latest article for The Universe magazine. To read Chris’s article, please click here.
