The Bank of England is the only one of the three big western Central Banks (EU/US/UK) to be selling lots of bonds at big losses and sending the bills to the taxpayers.
The UK is the only one of the three to be reinforcing a major money squeeze with a fiscal squeeze at the same time.
2023 has been a year of recovery from Covid and the lockdowns. I have been pleased to see so much good work in our schools and medical establishments, and to see the private sector economy picking up.
The EU are locked in long and acrimonious talks over EU plans to take over more the tasks of running migration policy at EU level. The EU is wanting burden sharing arrangements.
Now the government wants to control legal migration it needs to calculate the costs of new legal migrants into low paid jobs to taxpayers. The government now we are out of the EU can make legal migration any amount it likes, from the 750,000 it was at its peak to zero.
The John Redwood Interview - Getting us back on track
John summarises the economic benefits of Brexit and what can now be seized, given political will. 10 minutes of Brexit gold for those who love the idea of a fully independent, prosperous UK.
This year, the future of St Crispin’s Leisure Centre has been in doubt, after the Liberal Democrat administration put out a consultation on whether it should remain open or be put to an alternative use.