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This stuff has been said for about 30 years if not longer. That long term unemployment rate isn't that high in the UK and is below the OECD average. I grew up on a council estate and genuinely don't recall anybody among my neighbours then who fitted that description. I certainly don't know of...

Can you show the workings that show how somebody receiving UC can receive more than somebody working full time on minimum wage?

She should resign or be removed from post.

People become unemployed, are you saying that if I (father of three children and working constantly since the age of 16) should not be entitled to claim benefits for more than three of them if i need to?

Because Labour like the Tories are utterly wedded to neoliberalism, Reform will be the same. The market will provide.

The bigger picture answer is that the property (both buying and renting) market needs a huge correction. I know it isn't politically palatable but without solving that major issue, everything else is tinkering around the edges.

We either increase the birth rate or accept that we need immigration to provide the services necessary for an increasing aged population. This is the problem with debate in the UK, the starting point is always spite not logic.,

I think he's one of those players that came through so early and played so much football that his peak happened earlier. It's similar to players like Rooney and Michael Owen.

Monetary policy alone has been brilliant at controlling inflation hasn't it

All money is created from nothing mate, how could taxes be paid without it?

Why do you think that?

It's always been a moody place

It's a real shame that this bloke isn't front and centre of the BBC economics news because he gets it

In fairness it was a case of "I'm alright Jack" from Pete. Sums up the modern labour party.

Don't trust the idea that spending is dependent on taxes, that's a good start 👍🏻

The government isn't a household, it doesn't owe debt to commercial banks like a household does. Most of its debt is held by its wholly owned bank. It issues its own currency so would never ever ever ever ever ever be unable to pay any debt denominated in pounds sterling. Government debt is...

Transitional relief concedes that the increases are unaffordable to business so just delays the inevitable. It's not something that is a specific labour policy either, it has always existed.

The second one is the one I was on about, I think this kind of tax increase is incredibly cynical as it isn't widely understood how it works. As if the prospects for the hospitality industry weren't bad enough already. Still, it's not all bad, that lovely local employer Amazon getting around a...

Which public sector workers get above inflation increases? Never ever happened in my working life. (I don't work in the public sector and haven't for a long time) Reeves is shrinking the size of the private sector with tax increases for people and businesses. She is a disaster. I just saw a...

Despite the headline of business rate reductions for some businesses, a lot of pubs have had their RV increased significantly so will be paying more. Reeves genuinely does not have a clue about managing an economy, her background of fucking about in the BOE is her problem not her advantage.