THERE is a deep sense of consternation in the air of the British countryside, writes Pembrokeshire County Councillor Aled Thomas, who is Wales Chair of the...
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GLEE, sorrow, calm satisfaction, anger, disappointment, and smug self-satisfaction: the responses of Wales’s politicians to Rachel Reeves’s budget...
BUSINESS leaders gave mixed reactions to Rachel Reeves’s first Budget as Chancellor. Although the increase in Employer National Insurance Contributions...
AUDIT WALES is gradually releasing its assessments of Welsh local authorities’ financial sustainability. And the reading is grim. So far, the reports...
THE UK government has argued that a black hole exists in the public finances to the tune of £22 billion in this financial year. It claims that dealing with...
THE CHANCELLOR’S announcement that the “black hole” in the UK’s finances was worse than forecast was not surprising. The Institute for...
IF I’VE learned one thing from my time in politics, it’s the simple truism that the establishment never leaves a good crisis go to...
Tories abandon levelling up and tank the economy