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What was said, and which frame it usedEvery item the dashboard counts, newest first. The marked words are the phrases that made it count; the tags say whether it used an opposing frame, an MMT-consistent idea, or named MMT. These are keyword matches: whether an item endorses or attacks an idea is shown once our classifier's accuracy is published.
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Pensions Triple Lock
…ncertain; the care service could well cost more—demand tends to grow for something that is free—but scrapping the triple lock could save less. At the very least, Labour’s policy creates a £15 billion black hole in the public finances. And what a way to announce it: a couple of lines in a conference speech—no proper explanation or detail, just millions of pensioners left wondering what it means for their retirement. Labour Back Benchers should remember how these things go. Their last Prime Minister came after pensioners’ winter fuel payments. That was not a plan that stood the test of time; i…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
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Lobbying, lawyers and a media blitz: the fight to kill the Church of England’s £100m slavery compensation fund
…t opponents was a Church of England vicar who appeared on GB News days after the fund was announced in January 2023, to say it would put parishioners off donating to the church. “We keep hearing that there is no money left,” he said. “And now suddenly, they’ve found £100m down the back of the sofa, to pay for this. You can imagine how I felt.” A torrent of similar views has followed, with significant coverage in media organisations that are owned or backed by Marshall. The Spectator, which Marshall bought in 2024 for £100m, has hosted repeated criticism, including one piece by Biggar entitle…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
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International Update
…sel prices have hit £2 a litre for the first time ever. Against that backdrop, the Chancellor will deliver a Budget in two weeks. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that there is a £35 billion black hole in the public finances. More borrowing or more taxes are on the way, because we know that the Prime Minister will not cut spending. This is at a time when families and businesses are already suffering under the weight of £70 billion in Labour’s tax rises. So what has the Prime Minister chosen to focus on today? Brexit. His exact words earlier this year were that “the last thing we sho…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now
It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins Infrastructure sends politicians berserk. Propose more money for the health service or reopening youth clubs and frowns break out all round. Can we afford it? But shout infrastructure and cheers go up. The word suggests glamour, chest-beating and “growth”. Reason flies out of the window. The saga of Heathrow’s third runway beggars belief. A foreign-owned private company wants to make more money out of its cramped west London investment. The airlines are sceptical…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – as it happened
…he Labour MP Liam Byrne still gets criticised for the note he left in the Treasury after the 2010 election to his Tory successor saying “there is no money”. The note (often wrongly remember as saying there is no money left) was a joke, written when Byrne expected to be succeeded by a Tory with whom he had a friendly relationship, but the Lib Dem David Laws got the job instead. Laws gave it George Osborne and David Cameron and they spent years quoting it as alleged proof that Gordon Brown had bankrupted the country. In his speech today John Healey used a similar line. I did not quote it earli…
- MMT-consistent idea: Deficit myth