Could the UK out-grow the EU after Brexit?
Collapsing retailers. A looming far-left government threatening nationalisation. And perhaps most significantly of all, our potentially chaotic rupture with our…
Why the IFS is wrong about a ‘no deal’ Brexit
The growth forecasts might be too optimistic. The economy may yet turn down, the pressure on public services will only…
The real problem with the Saudis’ ‘Davos in the Desert’
At this rate, there’s going to be a very empty hospitality tent, and a heck of a lot of canapés…
The euro is the source of Macron’s troubles
A new interior minister. A new agriculture and culture minister. There wasn’t, despite some speculation, a new prime minister, but…
The flaws in Labour’s plan for a four day week
Free university for students. Free shares in your company. And now plenty of free time, with one day less in…
The Tories are wrong to ditch austerity
Schools will finally get a bit more money. Nurses and policemen may at last get a proper pay rise. Local…
Greece’s economic misery is far from over
A couple of years ago, I was driving from Athens airport to the Peloponnese along the sparkling new highway that…
The City’s resilience after Brexit could be bad news for the EU
The Gherkin would be re-zoned as social housing. The Walkie Talkie would be turned into a massive TK Maxx with…
Business should now get behind ‘no deal’ with the EU
Both the Brexit and and Foreign Secretaries have resigned. The Chequers agreement, if that is the right word, looks about…
Businesses should try and shape Brexit – not fight it
Airbus will abandon the UK. The car factories will all be closed down. Trade will grind to a halt, we…
Italy isn’t the next Greece. Here’s why
Everyone thinks they know the script of how Italy’s saga will play out. As the populists take power in Rome,…
Don’t blame the populists for Italy’s chaos
Bond yields are soaring. Stock markets are tanking. The banks are looking wobbly, and money is starting to drain out…
Who is making the case for leaving the customs union?
Whole industries will be devastated. There will be thirty mile queues of lorries stretching back from Dover. The price of…
Britain should rise above Trump’s trade war
The stock market is reeling. The White House has already witnessed the resignation of the President’s most senior economic adviser.…
Don’t panic about the stock market plunge
The Dow drops by eleven hundred points, its largest one-day fall ever. Equities around the world crash in sympathy. The…
The ‘experts’ must learn their lesson from Project Fear’s failure
Unemployment would soar. Trade would collapse. Factories would close, and house prices would be in freefall. Rewind to the spring…
John McDonnell and Davos are perfect for one another
The headlines just about write themselves. A hard-left Labour shadow chancellor flies off to Davos to preach revolution and socialism…
Rupert Murdoch is selling Sky at the top of the market
There are plenty of questions to be asked about the decision by Rupert Murdoch to sell 21st-Century Fox, including Sky…
The last thing the UK needs is higher Scottish taxes
A top rate of 50 percent? A wider range of tax bands? Lower allowances? Or some combination of all three?…
Here’s what we should get from Brussels for our £40 billion
A high speed rail line from Manchester to Glasgow. Three of the shiny new Elizabeth lines crossing London. Thirty or…
Stamp duty was already a mess – but we just made it worse
We could have given them free Spotify subscriptions. Or Just Eat vouchers. Instead, the government’s pitch to Jezza-loving twenty-somethings was…
An investors’ guide to surviving Corbyn
Windfall taxes imposed overnight. A sweeping programme of nationalisation. A levy on every bank transaction. A campaign on ‘back taxes’…
If the City can’t replace 75,000 jobs, it has bigger problems than Brexit
The wine bars will be spookily empty. The lap-dancing clubs will be abandoned, and Savills will have to start working…
The cost of a Brexit ‘no deal’ is diminishing
The exit bill keeps going higher and higher. No progress has been made on the Irish border, and not much…
Capping energy prices will leave us all worse off
We have a couple of hundred years of economic history to tell us that some things are just a really,…
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