Labour has finally appointed a chairman of the rape gangs inquiry. Only took about six months…
PA says former children’s commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield will take the role. Now for Downing Street to set out what the role will entail…
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.”