Tag: Jeremy Hunt

Plummeting fuel duty receipts are driving urgent calls for a pay-per-mile road tax as the rise in electric vehicles threatens to blow a hole in public finances.

In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Will Wragg's "bravery" sending fellow MPs' phone numbers to a sexting blackmailer, Angela Rayner's tax lies and the Tories' latest poster fail.

Don't be fooled by the 'Britain is growing' fairytales, says David Craig. Any 'growth' is accounted for by the hike in the benefits bill and in civil servants' pay and a heap of other unproductive deficit spending.

Public opinion is with the right when it comes to reducing immigration, and the right can’t even win on that. To believe the right can win on abolishing the NHS (where public opinion is with the left) is pure fantasy.

Yesterday's budget added £1.4 billion to energy bills owing to its massive increase in subsidies for renewables, including £800m for offshore wind. If wind power is so cheap, why does it need so much subsidy?

Jeremy Hunt told the Commons that "the NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British". What extraordinary nonsense, says James Bartholomew. It is our national shame.

Britain needs to bring in negative interest rates via digital currency, raise taxes and increase inflation, according to Jeremy Hunt's economic adviser. Why have the Tories turned their backs on prosperity?

According to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Brexit has been a major cause of the woeful performance of the U.K. economy over the last few years. That's nonsense, says Matthew Lynn. The truth is it was lockdown.

As our politicians cheer economic disasters as supposed wins for the climate, can't they see the damage they are doing to our country with their headlong pursuit of Net Zero, asks David Craig.

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has admitted for the first time that the massive money printing in the pandemic – more than in the whole previous decade – is behind the current sky-high inflation.