Here are the real reasons we have a productivity crisis in the UK
Our workforce is undereducated, exploited and demoralised – it’s no wonder productivity is dropping.
Our workforce is undereducated, exploited and demoralised – it’s no wonder productivity is dropping.
Things are going to get much worse, before they get better.
The Tories are withdrawing subsidies for green power projects until 2025, but offering tax breaks for North Sea oil and gas developers.
Why is everyone still paying for the bankers’ mess – except the bankers themselves?
The Chancellor should have taken the chance to revive a stagnating UK. Instead he scrimped on it.
Here’s what the left has to say about the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement.
The Chancellor has signalled he may cut the tax for first time buyers. It would be a fig-leaf for the fact they’ve shelved their housing programme.
They want to cut it to 17 per cent, one of the lowest rates in the world, and it’s not sustainable.
There are a number of tools available to Philip Hammond to fix our broken economy, but Tory ideology blinds him to them.
With productivity stagnant, the Chancellor may have to scrap public spending plans and increase borrowing. Tory economic legitimacy will be in tatters.