Budget: Tech Sector Warns Capital Gains Hikes Devastating
Budget: Tech Sector Warns Capital Gains Hikes Devastating With the Budget just eight days away, eyes will be on how the Chancellor plans to cover the government’s astronomical coronavirus bill and build economic confidence after the pandemic. As Guido said last week,...
Jethro Elsden: Failing to extend the stamp duty holiday would be a big mistake
Jethro Elsden is a Data Analyst and Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies. Reports that the Chancellor is going to try and use the budget to claw in a bit more revenue to try and pay for the cost of the pandemic are worrying. Even if the costs of the pandemic...
Frances O’Grady Accidentally Turns Fire on Her Own Campaign Slogan
Frances O’Grady Accidentally Turns Fire on Her Own Campaign Slogan Guido was surprised to hear TUC Chair Frances O’Grady following Sir Keir Starmer in attacking the government’s ‘Build Back Better’ slogan on the Today Programme this morning:...
LISTEN: Neil Ferguson Suggests Freedom Timetable Could Be Sped Up
LISTEN: Neil Ferguson Suggests Freedom Timetable Could Be Sped Up [embedded content] Scourge of the lockdown sceptics Neil Ferguson could become their greatest hope in the months ahead as so called ‘Professor Lockdown’ suggested that the unwinding timetable could be...
Newslinks for Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Economy ‘back open by May’ as Johnson says end is in sight “Boris Johnson declared that Britain was on a “one-way road to freedom” last night as he announced plans to restart most of society and the economy by May. The prime minister said that “the...
Murder investigation launched after man stabbed to death in Tottenham
Advertisements A murder investigation has been launched following a stabbing in Tottenham. Police were called at approximately 16:00hrs on Monday, 22 February to reports of a man, believed aged in his 20s, stabbed in West Green Road, N15.Advertisements Officers and...
Four Men charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life
Advertisements Detectives from the Metropolitan Police have arrested and charged four men with firearms offence after two vehicles were stopped in Addison Way, Barnet, on Thursday, 18 February. The following were all charged on Friday, 19 February with possession of a...
Salmond’s Damning Evidence Against Sturgeon Explained
Salmond’s Damning Evidence Against Sturgeon Explained Last night Alex Salmond’s evidence to two enquiries was published, which can be read in full here (relating to Nicola Sturgeon’s Ministerial Code breaches) and here (relating to Sturgeon’s Government’s handling of...
Parliament should vote monthly from March on ending the lockdown
Perhaps the most significant moment during Boris Johnson’s statement on the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown came when he was questioned by Paul Bristow. The Peterborough MP asked the Prime Minister about the five week gap between each of the...
Thirteen Tory MPs pressed for faster lockdown easing during Johnson’s statement yesterday – and 35 did not
Divining the intention of a question to the Prime Minister from a Conservative MP is an art rather than a science. But by our calculation 13 Conservative MPs yesterday supported an earlier lifting of the lockdown, in at least some respects, and 35 did not in response...
