Patrick Maguire

United Kingdom, Westminster

Columnist and Broadcaster at The Times

Chief political commentator, The Times

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Majority of Labour MPs oppose Rachel Reeves over spending cuts

5 days ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire |Max Kendix

Two thirds of Labour MPs are opposed to the chancellor’s fiscal rules, and one in five favour tax rises over spending cuts, according to new polling. In a sign of significant discontent on the government benches before next week’s spending review, research suggests a clear majority of Sir Keir Starmer’s backbenchers favour a drastic reset of the government’s economic policy.
Bessent defends tariff policy as retailers weigh price hikes: "Some are and some aren't"

5 days ago | cbsnews.com | Patrick Maguire

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday defended the Trump administration's escalating tariff policies, saying that while some companies have already announced price hikes, he thinks others will choose not to.
Bessent defends tariff policy as retailers weigh price hikes: "Some are and some aren't"

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Patrick Maguire

NowNew York CNN — For some small businesses, the last week brought even more twists and turns to the past two months of President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs. The situation was already confusing, with stops and starts of tariffs at different levels. Then on Wednesday, a US court said Trump …
Gary Lubner: I want to change the lives of millions of people

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire

It was the unedifying sight of Rachel Reeves struggling to book an open return to Leeds on her own laptop that convinced Gary Lubner that the Labour Party could do with his money. In late 2021, when this understated South African was still chief executive of Belron, the firm that repairs windscreens the world over, he fell into conversation with Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow chancellor at a dinner for business leaders. Back then Labour were miles behind in the polls but Lubner liked what he heard.
What can a red wall working men’s club tell us about Reform?

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire

‘I know why he’s said that. He expects you to come in here and for all of us to say a certain thing. But we don’t all think like that.
Rachel Reeves to spend big in red wall

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire |Oliver Wright |Chris Smyth
Rachel Reeves is ready to spend where Boris Johnson planned

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire
Wait To Jump On Chubb (NYSE:CB)

1 week ago | seekingalpha.com | Patrick Maguire

This article was written byDr. Maguire is an ardent, experienced value investor. Most of his career has been spent as a healthcare executive and business owner, caring for patients diagnosed with cancer in coastal North Carolina. He earned his BA in English Literature from Haverford College, MD from Penn State College of Medicine, and completed his residency and clinical research fellowship in Radiation Oncology at Duke University Medical Center.
Winter fuel U-turn exposes vacuum at heart of No 10

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire
Enoch Powell's shadow is troubling Labour

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire

There's an old quote that gets an airing whenever Labour leaders talk tough on immigration. This week it has been the ugly wallpaper of social media: "What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after."Ambalavaner Sivanandan, the campaigning director of the Institute of Race Relations, said that in the early 1970s.