The foreign secretary is clearly having a tough time toeing the government line on foreign affairs. He was slapped down by Downing Street for his emotional comments about tariffs on Friday…
On Sunday Darren Jones admitted Britain had been ‘protected’ from a higher tariff rate by dint of its exit from the EU: “We’ve been treated differently from the European Union, that’s correct.” Lammy was having none of it…
He told Italian newspaper la Repubblica: “We are facing a significant change in the way the global trading system works, but this has nothing to do with Brexit.” Lammy’s message discipline has been increasingly waning of late…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”