The Latest Breaking News from Norman Lamont

A former Health Secretary once told me, with an understandable degree of despair, about the frustrations of being in ultimate charge of the NHS. He had all the policy levers at his disposal in his office, but however many he pushed, or pulled, nothing he did seemed to make any…

In the long line of UK government budgets, this first one from Labour in 14 years will be remembered as one of the more significant. Perhaps not like those of Geoffrey Howe in 1981, which controversially cut spending in the middle of a recession, or Hugh Dalton in 1946, which…

City Comment: For Sunak and Hunt, an official declaration of recession, however shallow, is yet another dent to their claims on the economy

Tory grandee doesn’t ‘buy’ MPs’ argument that tax on inherited wealth is widely hated

Policymakers are too quick to slow the economy and risk recession when the solution is to rejoin the EU

Revoking nationality of Shamima Begum is form of capital punishment, government told

Revoking the nationality of Shamima Begum is a form of capital punishment, leaving her as ‘the breathing dead’, the Government was told.

It was Norman Lamont who first announced a new way of paying for public buildings and infrastructure in November 1992. In a speech to the House of Commons, the then chancellor of the exchequer said he was looking to encourage more private financing for such projects.

Divisions are emerging in the Conservatives, after the Chancellor’s mini-budget prompted turmoil in the markets and talk of a financial crisis