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As he challenges conventional wisdom on climate change, Kate Weinberg visits Lord Lawson at his French home Lord Lawson on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament Photo: ANDREW CROWLEY Nigel Lawson is a man of habit. For the...
One can only fear for Tony Blair after last Thursday's European summit at Brussels. For the truth is that evidence continues to amass that, under the Blair premiership, the British state was responsible, at times, for some...
The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
Wealthy Britons left, right and centre have pledged to move abroad in protest at Labour's 50p rate of income tax. The artist Tracey Emin has said she will move to France if the 50p tax rate is brought in Photo: Getty The actor...
Family Investments hits one million Child Trust Funds Succesfully approved applications for the government's savings initiative, Child Trust Funds, have hit one million for a firm. Family Investments has reported that it is the...
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficit Richard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in...
Pressure for tax rises and public spending cuts intensified yesterday as it was disclosed that the Government was forced to borrow an extra £11.4 billion to pay its bills last month, the worst October figure since records began.
Richard Lambert, the director-general of the CBI, tells Sean O'Grady what business wants from the politicians "There are no silver bullets." "The Voice of Business", as the CBI styles itself, admits that there is no silver...
I wonder if any of the party leaders has booked a long holiday in the sun over Christmas and the New Year. In my view they would deserve one, but I am almost certainly in a tiny minority of about three voters on this issue. In...
By DAVID WOODING Whitehall Editor and STEVE HAWKES Business Editor GORDON Brown admitted yesterday taxes may have to rise to pay off Britain's spiralling national debt. State borrowing soared by a record £11.4billion last month...
