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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Public Borrowing for Defence
My Lords, the real reason that we are struggling to fund our defence commitments is that, having loaded £3 trillion of debt on to the nation’s credit card, we are now left with a monthly interest bill running at £11 billion. That is equivalent to double our spending on defence. The Chancellor is telling us that fiscal discipline is his top priority, so does the Minister agree that the bond markets will take a very dim view if we resort to yet more borrowing to fund defence?
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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Sporting Events Bill [HL] (First sitting)
…British sport stands to lose if we undermine the commercial model that supports it. The question for the Liberal Democrats is simple: if their amendments put that income at risk, who will replace it? Where will the money come from to support sports clubs, maintain facilities and give young people the opportunity to participate in sport? I appreciate that their amendments start with major events hosted under the framework for which the Bill provides, but once the precedent is set and the likes of UEFA cannot sell their broadcast rights at market value, the effects will begin to pass from the…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Minns accused of bypassing high court ruling with laws to allow NSW mine to increase coal production by 32%
…pany, it’s become apparent that there are 400 jobs on the line that will go before Christmas without this intervention,” Minns said on Monday. He said if the bill passed, MACH Energy had agreed to a “jobs guarantee” to ensure that the current permanent workforce was retained until 2032. The NSW Greens climate spokesperson and environmental lawyer Sue Higginson said: “This is an incredible new low for the Minns Labor government, bypassing the planning process and the law as laid down by the high court of Australia. “One thing is clear, under Labor the coal mining giants are writing the laws,…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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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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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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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes
…king the size of the state. As with “maxing out the credit card”, it forms part of the inquisition every time a minister goes on the TV or radio with a new spending measure: “That’s all very well but how are you going to pay for it?” Burnham is committed to re-industrialising Britain, but to do so he will have to break with the neoliberal convention that it is not the job of the government to pick winners. As the prime minister should point out, China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea have all built up their manufacturing strength by picking winners, and Britain could do the same. Indeed, the o…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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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?