Spending Review 2020: Think tank response round-up
Adam Smith Institute Matt Kilcoyne, Deputy Director: “The Chancellor set out plans for big-spending and big-borrowing to get the country through the pandemic, and set the course for the country in the years ahead. It is necessarily expensive to confront the...
Murdoch’s Media Empire Wokes Up
Murdoch’s Media Empire Wokes Up The private outrage and public consternation from many News UK employees following Guido’s revelations that the Murdoch media empire is set for a top-to-bottom progressive revolution has done little to slow the company HR department’s...
Tory MPs Voted to Allow Temporary Aid Cut in 2015
Tory MPs Voted to Allow Temporary Aid Cut in 2015 One junior minister has resigned and Tory MPs are threatening to rebel over the temporary foreign aid cut. They appear to have forgotten that in 2015 they themselves voted overwhelmingly to allow a one year cut in aid...
Rishi’s Spending Review Pleases Few Wonks
Away from the glossy spin now expected from team Rishi, there is a distinctly nervous reaction from the right’s ideological bastions. Delving into the details of the Chancellor’s spending review announcement, think tank responses range from at best unease to at worst...
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Chancellor brings a mysterious poetry to his numbers
“Numbers alone can ring hollow,” Rishi Sunak said at the end of his statement. But in his mouth, numbers did not ring hollow. He brought a mysterious poetry to these figures. We are borrowing and spending far more than we can afford, or expected only a few...
Baroness Sugg Submits Resignation as FCDO Minister
Baroness Sugg Submits Resignation as FCDO Minister Baroness Sugg has handed in her resignation as a development minister in the FCDO over the Chancellor’s foreign aid cut today. Boris has, after almost an hour, now accepted her resignation. Sugg’s boss Dominic Raab...
WATCH: Sunak says his plan ‘delivers on the priorities of the British people’
Innocent woman gunned down during ‘mass gang brawl’ that broke out in East London
Advertisements An innocent woman is fighting for her life after being caught in the crossfire as a mass gang brawl broke out in East London. The 32-year-old woman was shot in the chest on Westgate street in Hackney at around 9pm on the 22nd of November 2020. She is in...
Boris, Gove, & Rishi Plea to IPSA For No Pay Rise, Refuse to Legislate to Stop One
Boris, Gove, & Rishi Plea to IPSA For No Pay Rise, Refuse to Legislate to Stop One [embedded content] Guido was surprised to not hear anything from Rishi on MP pay during his statement. He could have made the whole issue go away by adding one line to commit to...
The Chancellor’s Spending Review statement. Full text – “The UK is forecast to borrow a total of £394 billion this year”
“On Monday, the Prime Minister set out the action we need to take between now and the start of December to control the spread of coronavirus. Mr Speaker, Today’s Spending Review delivers on the priorities of the British people. Our health emergency is not yet...
