SNP pins economic and electoral hopes on ‘boring’ Budget
Various adjectives were deployed to describe the SNP government's tax and...
Analysis: The Scottish Budget 2026
This was very much a pre-election budget, characterised by canny political...
A Budget that accepts North Sea policy is broken but fixes nothing
If you haven’t read the thousands of pages that accompanied yesterday’s Budget,...
Budget blunders will soon give way to political pantomime
Managing bad news is a core, if under-rated, political art, but the run-up to...
Beginning of the end: The shattered authority of Sir Keir Starmer
It is now a question of when and not if Sir Keir Starmer will resign as Prime...
HMT tests out windfall tax exit strategy
Why reform the Energy Profits Levy? It’s a question the industry, long...
Starmer must tread Caerphilly after by-election disaster
Sir Keir Starmer has endured several by-election routs during his first 18...
Apocalypto Now?
William Wallace made an unlikely cameo at the Conservative Party’s conference...
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The King Over the M6
Sir Keir Starmer enters Labour Party conference this weekend fighting for his...