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Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

Ben Fletcher: The abolition of Stamp Duty is a great first step, but for further tax reform lets talk VAT

Reforming VAT in a first Conservative budget would create the basis for accelerated economic growth and be consistent with the reforming approach shown by the best of our predecessors. The post Ben Fletcher: The abolition of Stamp Duty is a great first step, but for further tax reform lets talk VAT appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home17 Mar 2026

James Mahone: The British growth covenant – how you turn fiscal discipline into national renewal

A consistent blunder by successive governments has been to allow savings to become absorbed in day-to-day consumption rather than invested in Britain’s productive capacity. The British Growth Covenant will correct this issue. The post James Mahone: The British growth covenant – how you turn fiscal discipline into national renewal appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home17 Mar 2026

David Willetts: Labour’s New Deal for young people has a focus on apprenticeships – a good idea if understood properly

It's right to try to grow the number of apprenticeships. They are worthwhile and popular. But there are limits. They thrive in environments where there are more regulated jobs and activities. They are not guaranteed routes into long-term stable employment in an open flexible economy. The post David Willetts: Labour’s New Deal for young people has a focus on apprenticeships – a good idea if understood properly appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home12 Mar 2026

Callum Price: Davey’s downer on the ‘Dubai Deanos’ and why it’s such muddled thinking

You may not like what Dubai has to offer, but don’t tarnish those who do with the brush of 'tax exiles' and 'washed-up old footballers’. If we were able to attract their like and their ambition, instead of scaring them away, we would all feel the benefits. The post Callum Price: Davey’s downer on the ‘Dubai Deanos’ and why it’s such muddled thinking appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home12 Mar 2026

Callum McGoldrick: Labour’s raid on motorists

The prime minister insisted this week at PMQs that fuel duty has not increased under Labour. This was gaslighting. The freeze is set to end in September in order to pay for the benefits bill, bloated public sector and various other squanderings of taxpayers money. The post Callum McGoldrick: Labour’s raid on motorists appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home10 Mar 2026

Emmanuel Igwe: There’s no such thing as unfunded tax cuts

For the Right to show it has not bought into the narrative of unfunded tax cuts it needs to be emphatic on the benefits of lower taxation as a vehicle for both collective and individual economic freedom and audacious in its pursuit to achieve it. The post Emmanuel Igwe: There’s no such thing as unfunded tax cuts appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home10 Mar 2026

Peter Franklin: Our shallow and simplistic debate over energy policy is a threat to national security

There are no easy solutions. When you hear someone urging the country to get real about the vulnerabilities of renewable energy, but without also acknowledging the fragilities of a hydrocarbon-based economy, the argument is either blinkered or made in bad faith. The post Peter Franklin: Our shallow and simplistic debate over energy policy is a threat to national security appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home9 Mar 2026

Mel Stride: Axe the Fuel Tax

The Shadow Chancellor attacks Labour plans to raise fuel taxes by 5p per litre the first such rise since 2011 The post Mel Stride: Axe the Fuel Tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home9 Mar 2026

James Lawson: As the ‘Wealth of Nations’ turns 250, it’s time for the Tories to reclaim their inheritance

From Pitt the Younger to Thatcher, its best leaders understood that prosperity stems not from state direction but from free individuals operating under the rule of law. When the party strays by embracing the mixed economy, accepting soft socialism, or losing the confidence to champion markets, the country suffers and the party loses. The post James Lawson: As the ‘Wealth of Nations’ turns 250, it’s time for the Tories to reclaim their inheritance appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Newslinks for Wednesday 4th March 2026

Starmer is no Churchill, says Trump as tensions rise | Reeves raid pushes taxes to record high | Net zero is the answer to Middle East energy crisis, says Business Secretary The post Newslinks for Wednesday 4th March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence

Churchill fought a war having argued for years that Britain was economically and militarily unprepared.  Starmer is trying not to fight a war arguing via his Chancellor that never before has so much been promised for defence. For so little return when it matters, it seems. The post The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Mel Stride: Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas

Realism requires backbone. This government has none. Winter fuel payments: U-turn. Welfare reform: U-turn. The two-child benefit cap: U-turn. Farm taxes, family business taxes, pubs - all U-turns. Whenever pressure mounts, this government folds. The post Mel Stride: Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas appeared first on Conservative Home.

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