European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen has backed Canada’s accession to the EU as its first “associate member.” Stunt…
Mark Carney has been posturing towards Europe amid a bad relationship with Trump’s White House. Seeing as there is no framework for an ‘associate’ membership it will have to be unanimously approved by all 27 member states…
The EU-Canada trade deal is still waiting for ratification by ten EU member states ten years after it was signed. Waste of time…
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.”