Mentions
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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Healey’s first budget to include big devolution package to boost growth
…and businesses that have struggled as the war in the Middle East has driven up bills. These higher costs have also pushed up the interest rates on government borrowing, making it harder for Healey to balance the books. He will set out how he plans to fully fund the four-year defence investment plan announced in the dying days of Keir Starmer’s premiership. However, Healey is not expected to say when the UK will commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence – an issue that was central to his resignation from Starmer’s cabinet. This is likely to be delayed until a spending review due at some point n…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Friday briefing: How a leaderless student group is challenging power in Serbia
…?” Totally perplexing this question needed to be asked. I’d be filing for divorce. Michael I’ve spent way too much time playing our new budget game, where you step into John Healey’s shoes and try to balance the books, while keeping backbenchers and the markets happy. Humbling but a lot of fun. Lucinda I spent a week of my year seven summer holiday as an extra in the History Boys film (it was shot at my school). Nadia Khomami reports on its return to the stage, but fails to mention my scene-stealing cameo … Michael A fascinating video about why timekeepers from 69 countries have voted to do…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs as profits jump ahead of looming bank tax; French bond yields hit fresh 24-year high – as it happened
…Gulf – is hosting a security council meeting to try and put out the fires at home. We’ve launched a fun (??) game – you can pretend to be the UK chancellor and play the budget game to see if you can balance the books. See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget that keeps MPs and the bond markets onside. The French 10-year government bond yield has risen above the equivalent US Treasury yield for the first time since 2013. The French yield, or interest rate, jumped 10 basis points to 5.09% this morning, while the 10-year US Treasury yield fell 4bps to 5.07%. With hi…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books
See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget that keeps MPs and the bond markets onside The challenge On 28 October, John Healey will announce the autumn budget to parliament. As in all years, the chancellor has to strike a balance between the following: Raising the money needed to fund the services that voters demand. Keeping taxes at levels that are acceptable to voters. Persuading the government’s creditors in the bond markets that it will continue to be able to pay its debts. The game In our game you get to try your hand at designing a successful budget. Can you ke…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Covid inquiry report shows why culture of care workers being undervalued must end, says Andy Burnham – as it happened
…s of diminished responsibility. Emma Webber, Barnaby’s mother, said: “This is long overdue, and simply the right thing to do. It was a disgrace that Calocane and offenders like him have ever received taxpayers’ money.” The proposed regulations apply to individuals subject to a section 37 order under the Mental Health Act 1983 and a section 57A order under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. The offences covered include manslaughter, attempted murder, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rape, assault by penetration and rape of a child under 13. Murder is not included a…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Workforce Skills
…the support across the House. As I said, further training is to take place throughout the rest of this year, including major exercises that we have taken part in. I restate, however, that we have to live within our means. That has required some reprioritisation, including of training. We have to focus on the right things and make sure that we are ready to fight the next war, not the last one. It has not been a popular decision, but I absolutely stand by the decisions that I have taken to make sure that the culture in my Department is one that lives within its means and delivers value for th…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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‘Countries are defying gravity’: how much longer can global economy resist chaos?
…late. Russia’s delegation was allowed to attend the G20 meeting, to the deep discomfort of UK delegates. The UK received a positive review from Georgieva and her colleagues, for setting out a plan to balance the books; though she conceded the bond markets had not rewarded its prudence. “The UK is actually one country where action to reduce the deficit has been taken decisively,” she said. Asked why the UK’s bond yields have not fallen accordingly, Georgieva said London’s status as a global financial centre tended to put the UK under additional scrutiny. “Traditionally we’ve seen more attenti…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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IMF suggests UK should cut spending rather than raise taxes on banks, as Healey prepares budget raid – as it happened
…]. Asked about the possibility at John Healey’s upcoming budget, Helge Berger, the economist who is deputy director in the IMF’s European department, suggested there might be better places to look to balance the books. Berger pointed out that Healey’s predecessor, Rachel Reeves, had raised taxes in her budgets, saying: “The last two budgets involved increasing government revenue, and ultimately there’s a moment where this becomes less productive but there’s still areas where Britain can make additional headroom available: modernising the property taxes or VAT, these are good examples. We wou…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Inheritance Tax
…driving down waste and driving up efficiency in the public sector, with a 16% reduction in departmental admin budgets by the end of the spending review period. We are reprioritising spending so that taxpayers’ money is spent on their priorities, cancelling digital ID in order to remove VAT from household electricity bills, reprioritising Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spending to help tackle homelessness and bringing the national bus cap down to £2 for 2027, funded by savings from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. We are reforming the welfare system thr…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – as it happened
…ritish. “We are not like them. We are different. We are the Conservative Party.” But apart from that, it was a long, rather disconnected lecture setting out the case for a Tory party that believes in living within our means against a Labour Party that wants to tax, spend and borrow. From Steve Richards, the writer and broadcaster A well delivered speech from K Badenoch.. but sums don’t remotely add up in her ‘something for everyone’ speech..and the ‘something’ was largely targeted at a few wealthy voters. She’s right to rule out any deal with Reform..but that means her future depends on Refo…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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‘Visible and engaged’: Burnham in listening mode with businesses at Labour party conference
…ay about the budget, despite striking a markedly different tone to Burnham’s “in hock” comment from a year earlier – insisting that he and the prime minister were “in lockstep” in their commitment to balance the books. “There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Shevaun Haviland, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said Healey’s speech was “significant” because the chancellor had acknowledged that private enterprise was vital for helping the UK economy to grow. However, she warned that companies still f…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for
…ll in some of his own personal story to those outside the hall less familiar with a man who, he said, had given his first Labour conference speech a full 40 years ago, in 1986. He spoke of his wife, Jackie, whom he became engaged with a fortnight after their first meeting at a Labour function, and his first job as a pot washer in a pub, which taught him the joys of a hand-pulled pint. Yet he threw little light on how he was approaching a budget now exactly a month away, other than to recommit to Reeves’s determination to balance the books, which will take more than optimism and a good story.
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Healey signals welfare reform push and new apprenticeships scheme
…rogressive to allow a bigger and bigger benefits bill and a system which offers an income but doesn’t offer a future. So, once again, as a Labour government it falls to us to act.” Insisting he would balance the books while fleshing out Andy Burnham’s plans to strengthen “growth in every postcode”, Healey said he and the prime minister were in lockstep in their commitment to balance the books. “That commitment is so important. There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Against a backdrop of jitters in financial markets as th…
- Opposing frame: Household budget