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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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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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Wes Streeting in US for Hegseth meeting as Ukraine tensions escalate – as it happened
…asked if he believed “in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles”, he replied: Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way. These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists. The Charity Commission head is expected…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Business of the House
My hon. Friend raises a crucial issue for his constituents. The Government are committed to ensuring that the £400 billion of taxpayers’ money spent on public procurement each year actively supports British industry. He raises an interesting point, and I will ensure that he gets an update from the relevant Department.
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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MOD Bicester and Illegal Migrants
…nd the Minister to call to mind the name of the Member of this House who created the asylum dispersal system, which placed asylum seekers in accommodation in the cheapest parts of the country to make taxpayers’ money go further. I worked with that Member of Parliament when I was involved in local government. When he introduced it, he was the hon. Member for Leigh. Now he is the right hon. Member for Makerfield. Members who criticise that system might like to reflect that their party, like ours, has been hearing for many years that the British people expect us to do better on this issue. Nobo…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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MOD Bicester and Illegal Migrants
…They deserve an asylum system that makes decisions promptly, removes people who have no right to remain, tackles criminality and treats people fairly. They deserve effective enforcement and value for taxpayers’ money. That requires practical solutions, competent administration and legislation that works. It requires a Government who will get on with the job rather than pretending that one grand gesture can solve everything. A practical example is the Brook hotel in Bowthorpe just outside my constituency: it opened under the previous Conservative Government and closed under a Labour Governmen…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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ACAS Code of Practice on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities
…timate of the recurring public sector cost. The private employer faces additional paid absence facilities administration, data protection questions and potential litigation. Public service managers face further pressure on staff time at a point when productivity remains below its pre-pandemic level. The Government’s paymasters really have bought some nice perks; I say to them: enjoy them while they last. For those reasons, I regret this code and ask the Minister to explain why the Government believe that this is a good use of business resources, public sector staff time and taxpayers’ money.
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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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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Infants, Parents and Carers Bill
…to deliver them? The hon. Member for Washington and Gateshead South, who I know has done a lot of work in this area over the years and cares about it very deeply, talks about outcomes. Outcomes are important, but so is value for money, because we must be careful with taxpayers’ money. What interventions are making the most difference, and how do we focus on achieving them? We need to think carefully about what we measure. Overall, however, this is a good Bill that will help infants and children to develop their full potential and have equality of opportunity, and therefore I will support it.
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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ACAS Code of Practice on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities
…s of matters where trained representatives can help employees and employers and stop grievances getting out of hand. I fully share the regret amendment’s concern about value for money. Every pound of taxpayers’ money should be spent responsibly, but I do not accept that the costs related to time off for equality reps will be disproportionate. As always, costs need to be measured against benefits. It is wrong to assume that the time spent by a trained representative is simply a cost with no corresponding benefit. The potential benefits of these measures are workplaces where disputes are dealt…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted
…: “Do you believe in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles?” Farage replied: “Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way. “These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists.” Farage has previously described the RN…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state
…cocaine importer – the EU agreed to give an extra €90m to Sierra Leone. In January 2025, another €35m was unlocked at a Freetown meeting with EU officials. Other deals involved tens of millions of EU taxpayers’ money paid directly into Sierra Leone’s treasury. After the Arconian seizure, on 9 June 2026, Brussels opened the European chamber of commerce in Freetown to boost investment. Its inaugural president was the Sierra Leonean head of the shipping company whose employee John Conteh died at Freetown’s port. Strengthening democracy was a core ambition of European investment in Sierra Leone.…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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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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UK Coach Industry
…here has been for buses. Before the Minister, off the back of the spending review, heads off to develop such a scheme for coaches—there has been one for buses—I again make the case that when we spend taxpayers’ money to help this sector, and the broader transport sector, we must ensure that operators relying on Government intervention benefit, not bash, our domestic manufacturing industry. Too often, quick decisions and poorly designed schemes have seen money sent to Chinese manufacturers, with a subsequent loss of domestic jobs and undercutting of the UK industrial capacity that could help…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Health Bill
…ble Lords share the desire to ensure that the modernisation and reform of healthcare leads to better outcomes for patients and a more productive, efficient and accountable NHS, and improves value for taxpayers’ money. In the time available, I will focus on three issues relating to women’s health; I know that, in her role as Women’s Health Minister, the Minister has a clear focus on this. I turn first to the Government’s commitment to introduce an amendment to the Bill to appoint a maternity and neonatal commissioner. As the Minister stated, this was a recommendation from the final report of…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over Extension)
…me the punishment. With a minimum cost of £20 million, on average, and a maximum cost of £20 million per inquest, the total equates, as one Policy Exchange paper put it, to in excess of £1 billion of taxpayers’ money. On the other hand, we have the legacy commission. Let us build it. Let us make it better. Let us make it the single route to truth, reconciliation and justice. It has more investigative powers, it can move faster and it will bring the end state at a delivery cost of a fraction of that of inquests. What other country delivers reconciliation through a twin-track approach? It just…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Pensions Triple Lock
The SNP wasted more than £28 million of taxpayers’ money on social care plans that went nowhere: no improvement to outcomes, no improvement to the terms and conditions of social care workers in Scotland. Now, the SNP is trying to hoodwink my constituents by telling them that these plans would make them worse off. The plans would increase Barnett consequentials for Scotland, which could be spent on a national care service. Will the Secretary of State learn from the SNP’s failures and reassure my constituents?
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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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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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit is a Conservative classic. After all, it was George Osborne’s high-profile pledge to “take the family home out of inheritance tax” in 2007 that put Gordon Brown off calling a snap general election. In practice, Osborne’s plan involved a £1m threshold for inheritance tax – and given the global financial crisis had blown a hole in the public finances by the time the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition came to power in 2010, it never came to pass. But the promi…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money