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£1.4 trillion. That’s the staggering figure attributed to the level of household debt in the UK. The average student now leaves university after three years with £20,000 worth of debt – before they have even got their foot on the...
The pension reforms announced by George Osborne were unquestionably the most significant aspect of the budget. After a few days, some of their implications are starting to emerge. The chancellor framed the changes as a question of freedom. As he put...
The bunny budget quickly became the bingo budget. When Grant Shapps tweeted CCHQ’s latest viral poster saying beer and bingo was what hardworking people enjoy it was quickly pounced upon by opponents and derided on Twitter as patronising and out of touch....
Conservative MP Nick de Bois is half right. He’s right that the ‘squeezed middle’ is further squeezed by income tax thresholds that have not kept pace with changes in wages and prices. He’s wrong – like most politicians – to...
Yesterday, the ONS maintained its preliminary estimate of GDP growth for the last quarter of 2013 at 0.7 per cent. This seems to confirm that the economy is now in recovery phase. However, as David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers...
This week, the stranglehold that high street banks have over key bank services – like current accounts, small business lending, and mortgages – came back into view thanks to Ed Miliband’s eye-catching pledge to break up the bigger banks. This would...
Last week I posted the first blog in a short series on what a new Department for Economic Reform might look to do and how. Below is the next instalment, on government as shop steward. Next week: government as industrial activist. Mission: Government as...
Banking in Britain is not competitive – at least not in the way that you or I would understand. A market that works effectively is one in which consumers feel they have genuine choice. For most bank retail customers, and...
