When the excitement over cabinet resignations and the sugar tax subsides, the 2016 Budget acts as a blueprint for making the wealthy wealthier.
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Behind this spat lie two very different ideas about what it means to be a Tory in the 21st Century.
George’s medicine for health crisis is welcome, but not marvellous.
The general public isn’t paying nearly as much attention to this spat as political junkies think – and that’s what matters in the referendum.
Why stop at 17%?
Why Britain’s obesity crusader could be heading for disappointment.
George Osborne was eager to paint a rosy picture for potentially eurosceptic small businesses. But he could have gone further.
Many predicted he’d crumble, but the Labour leader’s first budget was at least rousing.
A close look at Osborne’s tactics suggest he is not destined for the top, but remains a consummate Conservative.
Art has been sidelined and is in danger of only becoming a subject for the privileged.
The options for a move to Hong Kong were not as attractive as they might have appeared.
Lord Lawson thinks companies should partly be taxed on their sales. He’s very wrong.
Why Brexit would make a recovery in UK manufacturing much more difficult.
When John McDonnell read a quote from Chairman Mao in parliament, jaws hit the floor.
Defence wins, NHS survives and local government faces massive regional inequalities.
Treating the sick is not sustainable. We need to stop them getting sick in the first place. So why is the government cutting public health budgets?
An often ignored political role devised in 1571 tells you all you need to know about who will benefit as new power plants are built.
Until this week’s tax credits debacle, the Conservatives have performed exquisitely the role of the reasonable and pragmatic English party that swears by its faith in “whatever works”. So far, under the…
The upper house has humiliated the government, and now there’ll be hell to pay – or will there?
Is George Osborne deploying the ‘Deep State’ to secure a long-term nuclear arsenal for Britain?
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