A report authored by historian Lord Andrew Roberts for Policy Exchange warns of an “unholy alliance” of the political Left and Right attacking Winston Churchill’s legacy. He claims these new attacks on the wartime leader are “designed to rewrite history and rehabilitate appeasement to justify new Western isolationism, including withdrawing support for Ukraine”. Historically it was just the Left that criticised the British Bulldog…
Roberts rips apart “baseless” claims from the American Right about Churchill – including that he was “a warmongering idealist who pursued personally glory at the expense of Britain and wider western civilisation.” A nation that forgets its past has no future…
Read the report in full below:
Ex-IFS head Paul Johnson said Reeves misled the nation with her pre-Budget spin after it was revealed the OBR had uprated expected tax receipts long before November:
“I think it [her November 4 ‘tax rises are coming’ press conference] probably was misleading. It was clearly intended to have an impact and confirm what independent forecasters like NIESR and the IFS had been saying. It was designed to confirm a narrative that there was a fiscal black hole that needed to be filled with significant tax rises. In fact, as she knew at the time, no such hole existed.”