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  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Warner

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Warner

    Almost nowhere is there any sign of governments confronting the scale of the fiscal challenge they face. With rising market interest rates come higher debt servicing costs, further eating into any space governments might have for spending commitments. Particularly vulnerable to market jitters are countries where public debt is already at or above 100pc of GDP and where ongoing budget deficits are higher than that needed to stabilise debt at current levels.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jeremy Warner

    What on Earth is going on at the Bank of England? The question is as valid today as it was three years ago, when the UK was flirting with double-digit inflation. As policymakers do not need reminding, their main job is to keep inflation as close to the mandated 2pc target level as possible. This they have miserably failed to do for more than four years now. And there is little sign of them breaking the habit.

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Warner

    Moreover, most of us don't have the time or the energy to shop around for the best deals, so even if our spending patterns match those of the indices, our personal inflation rate will still be higher. For a large proportion of the population, the cost of living crisis is real and persistent, with purchasing power continuing to erode on an ongoing basis. For them, the aggregates mean nothing.

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Warner

    However, Reform's economic policies have come in for mounting criticism since its landslide gains in recent local elections, with a number of commentators accusing the party of fantasy economics and selling snake oil to the British public. Simon French, the chief economist at the City stockbroking company Panmure Liberum, has warned that the UK would face an "immediate and violent" sterling crisis if Reform took power in 2029.

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jeremy warner @JeremyWarnerUK
8 May 25

Agree with much of this, but think that youth mobility is essential to avoid creating a middle class apartheid where those with some kind of spurious Irish or Continental ancestry are free to work wherever they like in Europe, but the rest are not. https://t.co/buZE2N5aj1

jeremy warner
jeremy warner @JeremyWarnerUK
8 May 25

RT @Frencheconomics: A Spitfire in front of St Paul’s… and rumours of a UK-US trade deal, and a likely interest rate cut at lunchtime. What…

jeremy warner
jeremy warner @JeremyWarnerUK
8 May 25

Rachel Reeves is utterly trapped by the winter fuel row. It may yet finish her off . My column https://t.co/6SfYbwFnOQ