Guido pointed out unease in Downing Street over Reeves’s and Tim Allan’s plan to blame the 2016 EU referendum result for Labour’s 2025 economic crisis. Now the City goes further…
Bloomberg’s Alex Wickham points out a smorgasbord of economists (including prominent remainers) who dispute the Chancellor’s analysis, including voices from Panmure Liberum and St James’s Place. Even arch-liberal Jonathan Portes admits: “we can say for certain it isn’t just Brexit”. The third party reactions to the Winter Budget are already being written, and there’s still a month to go…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”