Liam Halligan

The Bank of England is expected to keep its benchmark rate at 3.75pc on Thursday, but probably not for long - Mike Kemp/In Pictures

"Everyone knows politics isn't working," said Andy Burnham in his Makerfield acceptance speech during the early hours of Friday morning.

“The policies being advocated by Andy Burnham are not the answers to Britain's economic problems.”

It's February 2001, and I'm standing in the middle of a low-quality artificial football pitch on north London's notorious Market Road sports ground.

It’s February 2001, and I’m standing in the middle of a low-quality artificial football pitch on north London’s notorious Market Road sports ground. This is a bruising amateur league match taking plac...

The US-Iran war is over. Tanker ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz , as oil and gas prices tumble.

“There is not a cat in hell's chance that this will stop the small boats.”

We risk a 1976-style crisis if the prime minister-in-waiting caves to Labour’s power brokers

Over the next few years, says the OBR, Britain needs to raise £120billion a year via tax increases or spending cuts to prevent national debt spiralling out of control.

Last week, in unusually strong words, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) declared that UK government debt is on an “unsustainable and ever-rising path”