In his capacity as ‘Banter Bouncer’ Guido popped by The Speaker pub in Victoria last night where Lord Young’s Free Speech Union held an event rallying liberty fans against Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill. Otherwise known as the Banter Ban…
Guido was forced to evict Lord Young, Reform’s Lee Anderson, and Tory MP Greg Smith but was able in the process to get their views on the legislation. Co-conspirators can follow the ongoing battle against the ban in the Lords on these pixels…
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.”