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ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has a chance to put some oomph behind coronavirus recovery: he should go for it By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 12 February 2021 The major advanced economies have each gone about combating fallout from the pandemic in different … Read more
Labour shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds calls for law to save cash before ‘time runs out’ By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds is today calling for an urgent end to the ‘uncontrolled retreat of cash’. In a letter … Read more
Philip Hammond has launched a savage attack on Theresa May, claiming she had no idea what Brexit should look like when she became PM in July 2016. The former Tory chancellor said Mrs May ‘didn’t know’ what kind of relationship she wanted the UK to have with the European Union when she moved into Number … Read more
Never in my darkest nightmares last spring did I think we would be starting this year in virtual lockdown. Foolishly, I thought coronavirus would have long been overcome and that life would now be pretty much back to normal. How wrong I was. Although the vaccination programme offers a big injection of hope that an … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We need entrepreneurs to survive in order to drive economy forward as Covid threat weakens – Chancellor MUST help them By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 The big financial story of the moment is the economic destruction resulting … Read more
Doe-eyed Rishi Sunak axed the fluffy bunny act: HENRY DEEDES watches as the Chancellor loses his bonhomie By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 12 January 2021 Usually when Rishi Sunak announces he’s adding another couple of noughts to the country’s spiralling debt, he puts … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit London 24 hours ahead of capital’s Tier 4 travel ban to spend Christmas in his Richmond constituency Chancellor swapped Downing Street for North Yorkshire last Friday afternoon The next day Boris Johnson introduced Tier 4 with travel ban on the capital On Monday Labour demanded a public statement on economic support By David … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor could discourage risk taking and raise funds for Exchequer by removing break on debt interest – what’s holding him back? The common theme which dragged down firms before and during the pandemic is borrowings The UK tax system favours companies, whether owned by private equity, rich entrepreneurs or publicly quoted, which take … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Setting up Treasury North on Teesside would be a huge show of faith – it would be an investment that will deliver real returns Rishi Sunak sees himself as a Northern Chancellor but does not conform to the old Andy Capp stereotype His plan to tilt the balance of economic power away from … Read more
Tourists ‘will abandon Britain if the Chancellor scraps duty-free shopping’ as watchdog warns it will raise only £195m in the first year – £300m less than original estimates Office for Budget Responsibility warns plans based on highly uncertain estimate It predicts it will make UK ‘less attractive for tourists’ compared to Paris or Milan Treasury said that … Read more