HMRC figures out today show UK goods exports fell 21.6% year-on-year in February, dragging the trade deficit to £31 billion. More than double the £14.2 billion recorded a year earlier…
Firms are selling less to the rest of the world because Labour has made it more expensive to employ people and more expensive to invest. Energy costs an arm and a leg. Who could have seen this coming?
All these figures obviously predate the Iran war, before ministers try to pull that excuse. The export slide began well over a year ago…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”