Back in 2022 it was decided that the Peers Entrance to parliament needed to be renovated for security reasons. It was given a £2 million budget which had ballooned to £7 million within a year…
Work has two years after that finished on the door, which is now operational. Guido hears the total cost of the operation ran up to in the region of a whopping £9 million…
Guido has asked UK DOGE to conduct some analysis. For that taxpayer bill you could:
That’s for one door, which multiple people have said doesn’t even work on a regular basis. The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”