Andrew Griffith

Very few Labour politicians have business experience. It shows. They don’t understand the damage they are doing to jobs, investment and our economy. https://t.co/RrTmv9FHNG

🚨UK Treasury officials are concerned that the prime minister’s talk of using “flexibility” within the fiscal rules to ramp up investment could backfire by destabilizing financial markets, according...

We won’t know Andy Burnham’s plans for our economy for almost three months. It means businesses will postpone decisions. Hiring will be paused. Investment will be lost. The new Chancellor is ma...

🚨 Dr Arthur Laffer has urged Burnham to cut taxes and scrap stamp duty to boost growth. He’s right. His warning that taxes can become so punitive they reduce revenue is as relevant today as it wa...

Labour’s answer to every problem is to raise taxes. Their Welfare Secretary admitted it. The state already spends 45p of every pound - and it’s the least productive part of our economy. We won’t...

Britain hasn’t always been like this. That’s why we Conservatives will deliver an enterprise revolution to rebuild our country. We’ll scrap every job-killing measure in Labour’s (Un)Employment Ri...

The government has already spent £555 million on its botched British Steel nationalisation. Now it turns out the company also owes £1 BILLION to the Chinese. Why were we not told? I warned of th...

Instead of borrowing more, the Government must make tough choices, starting with slashing welfare spending. If you are in debt, you are not free. It’s time for less debt and more freedom. Read m...

Every baby born today already owes a £44,000 share of our national debt. For every household, the figure is around £105,000. The UK’s debt amounts to around 100% of GDP. https://t.co/o58bAtV3Y9

It does not matter what you call it - it is more British government debt. It means the debt clock keeps ticking upwards.

It is having a huge impact on Britain’s finances. Last year, 8.1% of the UK’s total public spending - equivalent to £110 BILLION - went on debt interest alone! That is more than we spend on defen...

Britain has been forced to offer higher and higher rates of interest on its debt. When gilt yields rise, that is the market setting the interest rate it requires in order to buy more of our debt.

Every time the Government borrows another billion here or there, someone has to buy that debt. It is not hard to understand that, if you keep increasing supply while demand remains constant, the p...

UK gilt yields represent the effective financial return an investor expects to receive from holding a UK government bond. UK gilt yields are at their highest in decades and have surged since Rache...

John Healey’s first major act as Chancellor is classic Labour: More and more borrowing to dodge the tough choices they refuse to make.

Running our country means having to make tough choices. If you want to tax people less or spend more on defence, you have to decide what you will cut. Unless you are John Healey, of course...

John Healey is preparing for a £9 BILLION summer spending splash. UK debt is already over £3 TRILLION. But here’s why the real cost of Labour’s economic mismanagement may be far higher... 🧵👇

h/t to @GuidoFawkes

Unbelievable! 🤯 HMRC is recruiting a ‘Senior EDI Consultant’. A shocking waste of taxpayers’ money while businesses wait hours on the phone or struggle with their ‘Making Tax Difficult’ scheme. ...

Britain’s national debt has doubled as a share of GDP since 2000. That’s over £40,000 for every baby born in Britain today. We cannot go on borrowing forever. Sweden faced a similar problem, but...