Starmer has suggested that the rise in fuel duty could be reversed before it is defrosted in September. In PMQs he said: “We will keep the situation under review in light of what’s happening in Iran.” Reeves told the Treasury Committee abou…
Ross Kempsell is joined by Ameer Kotecha, who recently resigned as a diplomat in the Foreign Office, to discuss where British foreign policy is going wrong and why he left Whitehall. Find out what he really thinks of David Lammy and Yvette
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During Reeves’ Treasury Committee appearance this morning in which the Chancellor said she supports releasing strategic oil reserves, she also said there is a ‘valid’ argument to be made that she shouldn’t have raised National Insurance: “Y…
Extraordinary polling from Merlin Strategy. More than half of Labour voters and nearly two-thirds of Green voters would prefer to ‘reduce inequality’ (punish wealth) than make everyone better off. If the rich benefit, it’s no good. They’d r…
Nigel Farage has claimed he wrote privately to Keir Starmer in September, offering to help the government strengthen ties with the Trump White House. In the New Statesman today he says he told Starmer: “I know a lot of this administration,
Darren Jones has revealed just how shambolic the mangled Digital ID scheme is on Times Radio. Quelle surprise… The ‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ said the OBR was wrong that it would cost £1.8 billion but would not say whether the projected fi…
Darren Jones has confirmed that the first group of Mandelson files will be released after PMQs today, at which time the ‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ will give a statement to the Commons. Starmer will be out of there… The documents are expect…
Welcome back to the Right Angle, the insiders’ guide on the what’s happening on the British right. Exclusively for Guido members… The war in Iran is focusing minds at the top of both Reform and the Conservatives. Polling shows a majority of…
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The OBR has said inflation could be 1% higher by the end of the year thanks to a long spike in energy prices. Just Reeves’s luck… David Miles, member of the OBR’s budget responsibility committee, told MPs in the Commons: “If there’s no chan…