The right to a jury trial in the most fundamental criminal cases is a guarantee of equal justice for every one of us. If a government cuts that right instead of funding the system, it isn’t reform it’s endangering the freedom of us all.

Rachel Reeves has not just "given an 8.5% pay rise to younger workers" 🙄 She has forced employers to find another 8.5% on top of all the other cost increases. Some young people may be lucky enough to get 8.5%. But others will get the sack, or not find a job in the first place.

Laffer is so good.., and so right. Loved talking to him.

NB courtesy Sir Jeremy Hunt MP

So far under Reeves, compared to the forecast she inherited, in 2028/29: -Spending is up £99.3bn -Taxes are up £56.2bn -Borrowing is up £43.1bn This spending increase is ten times what she promised pre-election - let's see what happens today.

Next time you hear someone casually using the phrase “Far right” About some mainstream view… Remember: abolishing most jury trials is about the most authoritarian thing mooted by government in your lifetime.

OBR leaked forecasts don’t include impact of Employment Rights Bill … #Budget

The income tax increases for low income working people are entirely to fund the massive welfare giveaway. 780,000 low income working people are sucked into paying income tax to pay for a giveaway to Benefits Street.

Is freezing thresholds yet again putting up income taxes on working people? Of course it is.

The welfare bill is, give or take £10bn, now much the same as the income tax take. Pretty much every penny in income tax paid by these working people Reeves care about so much... goes to a welfare recipient.

It's always handy to bury bad news on Budget day... Yesterday the energy system operator officially warned Ed Miliband that if we get a particularly cold winter in the 2030s, we will be at serious risk of running out of gas. Why? Because gas production in the North Sea is

The conclusion from this is that the circa £30bn in tax rises were not needed to fill in a mythical black hole but to pay for Starmer’s expensive decisions to reverse welfare reform, reintro the winter fuel allowance and scrap the two-child benefit cap. People might feel they

Gareth has finally collected 25 of his Middle Class Holes pieces for this BUMPER CHRISTMAS VOLUME! I proofread this gem and can heartily endorse it as the perfect holiday gift. Grab your copy now!

I'm sure Amnesty UK will be along soon to defend the right to trial by jury. Any minute now...

Trials for mean tweets will now be decided by a single university-educated member of the judiciary, rather than a randomly selected jury of ordinary members of the public I'm sure this will have no effect on the sanity and political neutrality of the resulting judgements

At some point the UK population will have to face face this unacceptable “cruel” care is simply part of “our NHS” culture & only wholesale change which puts power in the hands of patients instead of deferring wholly to producer interest will bring about change

Since Labour took office, Britain’s long-term borrowing costs have soared – and are now easily the highest in the G7. Any UK Chancellor should now being doing everything in their power to shore up confidence, in a bid to bring down the UK’s punishing debt interest bill – now

The Tories want people to have jobs. You are making it too expensive to employ people. A reminder that every Labour government has left office with unemployment higher than when it arrived. Every. Labour. Government.

Proudly citing interest rate cuts as your best achievement as Chancellor feels like a hostage to fortune

🚨This is a bombshell moment. A must-read report from the grid operator forecasts rushing to Net Zero as Ed Miliband is doing makes our energy system £350 billion more expensive than going slower. That’s equivalent to 0.4% of GDP every single year from now to 2050 or £500 per