Why has the economy failed to deliver for the Chancellor? And what are the implications for tax and spend?
Housing is already dominating the headlines, but not necessarily for the reasons the Chancellor would have hoped for.
Gary Gibbon
This was not a transformatory Budget but the OBR figures on projected growth do threaten to change things in a big way. A 0.5% cut in trend growth sounds like nothing in particular, but cumulatively it can have a big impact.
Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn made a rare PMQs foray into Brexit focusing in his first question on Ireland.
Our Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has gone to one of the areas of lowest productivity in the UK to examine what’s going on.
As ministers continue to wrangle over the new figure that will settle the Brexit bill with Europe, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has been doing his own final sums ahead of tomorrow’s budget.
The Irish Government said today that Britain will not break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations simply by offering to pay more money to the EU.
Henry Newman, director of the Open Europe think tank and a former adviser to the leading Brexiteer Michael Gove, and Labour MP Alison McGovern discuss Brexit.
An American television presenter has claimed that African-American staff at Fox News are consistently marginalised – as he gave evidence to the competition watchdog investigating the proposed Fox takeover of Sky. Kelly Wright said there was a culture of systemic and institutional bias in America – declaring “it’s wrong and we are better than this”.…
Britain’s Brexit bill could be double the amount that Theresa May offered the EU in September. The critical cabinet committee in charge of making the decision has just finished meeting in Downing Street. The EU says without that promise of extra money, the talks won’t move on to the future trading relationship, and the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has also warned Britain…
Britain’s housing market is broken – and the Prime Minister is making it her personal mission to fix it. That was the message from Theresa May today as her Communities Secretary said the lack of affordable houses risks creating a “rootless generation”.
Treasury Minister Mel Stride discusses the government’s efforts to combat tax avoidance and evasion.
Europe’s Competition Commissioner has confirmed she has spoken to the tech giant Apple about controversial, but legal, tax structures revealed in the so-called Paradise Papers. According to the latest revelations, Apple apparently moved key parts of its business, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, to Jersey in order to maintain a low tax regime. Apple…
Jon Snow
This week a show about my ties opens at the Design Museum. I gasped when I saw it. It is small, dense and spectacular – enough colour to light the night sky!
Siobhan Kennedy
It would have been more of a surprise today had the Bank of England NOT raised interest rates. Having made it clear on several recent occasions that rising inflation meant a rate hike was imminent, Mark Carney would have earned his moniker as the “unreliable boyfriend” had nothing actually happened. But something very important did…