Will Hutton
Columnist at The Guardian
Political economist, author, Observer columnist, President of the Academy of Social Sciences and host of the We Society podcast. All views are my own!
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3 days ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
Reform is a joke party with joke policies, joke values and a consummate joker as its leader. If it ever won national power planning to implement even part of what it is promising, there would be a collapse in business and financial confidence with devastating economic consequences. Yet, terrifyingly for British politics, it has struck such a chord with a strand of the electorate that it was the decisive winner in the May mayoral, local council and Runcorn byelections.
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
From child poverty, to unemployment among young people, to a lack of skills or training, the trends are deeply alarming Britain’s neglect of its children is a disgrace – a crisis for too many of our kids but also a condemnation of the absence of a rallying national purpose.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
Economic forecasters and the bond markets are locked in a dysfunctional embrace that increasingly rules our lives. Three million British families will be poorer next year as a result of Rachel Reeves’s £5bn of welfare cuts. The chancellor didn’t dare risk incurring the wrath of the all-powerful bond markets in her spring statement, after the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that, without such savings, she would run out of financial road in five years.
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Will Hutton
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Will Hutton
The fate of incoming Labour business and industry secretaries seems to be to launch emergency rescue packages for industries that would otherwise face imminent closure. Witness Jonathan Reynolds at last Saturday’s extraordinary parliamentary recall arguing for the legal right to take over the running of British Steel from its Chinese owner, Jingye, in order to save up to 3,500 jobs and Britain’s strategic capacity to make steel.
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Industrial strategy, investment in frontier technology and dirt cheap renewables are the way to rejuvenate our steel industry - as China shows. Any takers here in Britain? British Steel must now join the modern economy, not be a prisoner of the old https://t.co/GJ2NU1q0eH
Another tribune of the UK right proclaims - as predecessors have done for 70 years - the European project dead. Instead the UK should become Trump’s vassal state - whose trade policies even her colleague Allister Heath thinks crazed. The right has lost it. https://t.co/nIyr03fTaE
Total batshit from the Times. UK electricity prices have been mad for a good decade. The idea that Miliband is to blame and not China defies reality. Ed Miliband’s net zero obsession left British Steel on brink of extinction https://t.co/2LifDvg9DM
