Month: May 2022

It suits the Government to present the current inflationary pressure on our living standards as something very abstract and global, that nobody is responsible for.  It is a helpful explanation if you want to say that there is only so much that can be done and that everybody is, to a greater or lesser degree,…

In the lead up to the 2022 Local Council elections, senior figures in the Conservative Party made much of the claim that Conservative Councils set lower levels of Council Tax. Oliver Dowden, for instance, said that “Conservative councils charge the lowest taxes in the country”. And Victoria Atkins said that “If you look across the…