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…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”