Ben Wilkinson

1 day ago | finance.yahoo.com | Ben Wilkinson

Rachel Reeves wants to force private companies to invest in Britain - Andy Rain/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Chancellor has now made it perfectly clear: your savings are not yours to do with what you like. Rachel Reeves this week threatened to force firms to invest a portion of their pension cash in Britain if they did not agree to follow her rules. She is also poised to finally announce a review into the future of Britain’s Individual Saving Account (Isa) regime.

1 day ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Wilkinson

Reeves's pensions plot has already seen 17 major pension firms sign up to invest at least 10pc of assets in private markets, including half of that in British companies. Yet the Government's own actuaries have advised her that this will have little or no impact, and the fees involved could wipe out any gains for individual savers. None of this should be mandated, we should want to invest in Britain because it is an attractive thing to do, not because we are forced to.

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Ben Wilkinson

It’s almost unfathomable, but Thursday’s interest rate cut could mark the start of a reversal of fortunes for the Labour Party. Let’s be clear, this would be thoroughly undeserved and down to nothing they’ve done themselves. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has single-handedly derailed Britain’s economic recovery and done nothing but stifle growth during her first months in power. She truly would have been better off doing nothing.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ben Wilkinson

It’s almost unfathomable, but Thursday’s interest rate cut could mark the start of a reversal of fortunes for the Labour Party. Let’s be clear, this would be thoroughly undeserved and down to nothing they’ve done themselves. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has single-handedly derailed Britain’s economic recovery and done nothing but stifle growth during her first months in power. She truly would have been better off doing nothing.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Wilkinson

It's no coincidence that incumbent governments across the world fell in recent years. There's an unbreakable link between economic demise and the party in power. The Tories were doomed to lose the election last year because of the global economic crisis that followed the pandemic. The poor decisions made during the party's reign only compounded the loss. That economic crisis left such a gaping power vacuum in Britain that even the most underwhelming Labour offering could fill it.