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Where all the money is going and what should be done. Making state services more efficient
Please find below my latest article for Conservative Home:
This government has been generous with taxpayers’ money. Record sums have gone into the NHS, alongside the huge amounts spent on Covid measures. Extra money has been allocated for the police, defence, levelling up. and other priorities. Despite this, NHS waiting lists...Read More »
The Northern Ireland Protocol
At last the government has published a Bill to resolve some of the deliberate law breaking and misinterpretation of this document by the EU. They must press on and legislate promptly.
The only party breaking this international law is the EU. The Protocol itself rightly makes clear the priority of the...Read More »
Getting back to work
There are 1 million people out of work at a time when there is an abundance of jobs on offer with many businesses desperate to recruit more staff. There are also 6 million people of working age excluding students not looking for work.
The government is now turning its attention to...Read More »
Controlling public spending
Last week some of you complained I did not point out in the housing debate that high levels of inward migration add substantially to housing demand. I have regularly pointed this out and called for more control of economic migrant numbers , as well as regularly urging tougher action against...Read More »
Treasury grossly inflates debt interest
The Treasury forecast for debt interest this year is £83bn, up from £23.5bn in 2021-21. Trying to scare us all, they do not spin out their forecast of debt interest for 2024-5 as they see it tumbling to £ 46.7bn, a fall of 44% from this year’s estimated number.
They chose...Read More »