Commentaries

If we are optimistic, take control and make good choices, confidence will grow and success will flow in 2025.

Deliverability of targets for government ambitions depends on millions more people aquiring new skills and immigration.

Trump’s simple positivity chimes with voters. The UK and EU must wake up to reverse complexity, negativity and stagnation.

As government grows the public sector and bleeds the private sector, its economic growth promises resemble a Trojan Horse.

The Ukrainian war of attrition ensures a Putin victory. Europe’s incompetence and weakness is its disgrace.

The Draghi report shows that complacency is fatal. Work and reward culture and entitlement without contribution must change.

Ministers pocketing every available luxury handout shouts self interest clouding judgement and eroding trust.

Portraying the UK as broken and miserable is strange policy: better to incentivise and energise the populace.

Immigration is a lightning rod for emotional politics: with freedom of thought and speech at risk, a rational plan is needed.

It is not taxpayers’ money but people who will transform the UK. Behavioural change, addressing elephants in the room, is key.