4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (579+ words) Markets Deliver Their Verdict on Healey's Fiscal Credibility as Britain Pays Highest Borrowing Rate Since 1998 conservativepost.co.uk Investors have just handed John Healey the most expensive lesson in fiscal credibility any Chancellor has received since Britain started keeping proper…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1536+ words) Government borrowing costs surged last week, with the yield on benchmark 10-year gilts touching 5.294 per cent on Wednesday, its highest level since August 2007. Britain has been caught up in a wider international bond sell-off, intensified by renewed conflict in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (526+ words) It marks the sharpest one-day move in the UK’s borrowing costs since May, and comes just weeks before Chancellor John Healey is due to deliver a Budget that markets are already treating with deep suspicion. While ministers will be tempted…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (230+ words) The timing could scarcely be crueller. This same month, a record 262,820 eighteen-year-olds secured university places on the back of their A-level results, cheering their way into an education system that is about to funnel them, three or four years from…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (257+ words) Economists had actually expected the government to break even in July, a month that typically benefits from a wave of self-assessed tax payments from the self-employed. Instead, a 7.2 percent jump in benefit spending, adding roughly £2 billion, brought the monthly welfare…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (215+ words) Ministers will, of course, point to global pressures, and it is true that turbulence abroad, including the fallout from the conflict in Iran, has pushed up petrol and energy costs. But a competent government is judged not on the excuses…...