Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
‘Trussonomics’ was destroyed on Monday 17 October New chancellor Jeremy Hunt in a statement to parliament on Monday 17 October, reversed all the major announcements in the mini budget made less than a month ago. It is a complete abandonment of all Liz Truss’s aims as Prime Minister and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, and it …
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This Budget was presented by a government that seemed to be preparing for an imminent general election. It promised tax cuts, continued growth, lower fiscal deficits and more spending on the NHS and the welfare state. Of course, a lot of this may not come to pass. Given the significant turbulence of the last …
It seems churlish to say that this was a Budget packed with detail but no overarching strategic vision or plan. It was, after all, billed as a Budget for a seminal moment in the UK. It was coming at the end of the first global pandemic since 1918, and it was the first one in …
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