Jeremy Warner

It seems the Chancellor’s inner class warrior is screaming for action

The Chancellor faces an unenviable uphill task, but wealth-destroying taxation is unlikely to boost growth

Britain’s oil giants have learned to ‘stick to their knitting’ the hard way

The Chancellor must ensure she borrows wisely. Unfortunately, there is every reason to believe she won’t

Labour is aping the top-down instruction and control preferred by EU policymakers

The days of ducking the difficult economic decisions are over

Raising taxes to fund inflation-busting deals for Labour’s union paymasters will not work

Britain now faces the very real prospect of becoming a dumping ground for cheap Chinese EVs

Coaxing the leisured masses back into the workforce won’t be enough to fulfil Starmer’s housebuilding ambitions

Only when the land of political make-believe collapses will governments realise the peril of soaring debt

British growth will suffer if Starmer targets savers after the election

Supreme Court emissions ruling on Surrey drilling site will merely displace production from one place to another

Savers may be fooling themselves by thinking their money is safe from private credit

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Labour offers an alternative to Tory chaos

America’s anti-China tariffs are politically astute, even if economically suspect

Punishing green targets are turbocharging China’s electric car assault

The world is drowning and there’s no sign of a life boat – someone has to get a grip

The Tories’ political narrative is missing a critical component

London is drowning in regulations – its stream of departures may soon become a flood

Warning lights are flashing red – and Labour faces a miserable inheritance