The first Institute of Directors’ Confidence Index has dropped for this year. No sign of any corners being turned…
Business leaders were surveyed on their views in December. Their optimism for the economy moved up from -73 pre-Budget to -66. Confidence in their own companies only rose by one point…
Every other metric got worse or stayed the same as pre-Budget:
This time last year the Starmer line was: “Growth is the number one priority of this government.” Is this growth in the room with us right now?
Speaking on Trump’s military action in Venezuela, Kemi Badenoch told the Today Programme:
“Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to do.”