The biggest item of note in Andy Burnham’s recent devolution speech was his commitment to ‘the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period’. It is estimated such construction will cost the taxpayer up to £13bn a year. This is merely the tip of the iceberg, however. Research released by the Centre for Policy Studies shows the state is already implicitly subsidising social housing rent to the tune of £43bn every year and paying out £36bn in housing benefi

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Keir Starmer has secured a historic free trade deal with India which eliminates tariffs on 85% of British exports within the decade which would have otherwise faced an average levy of 130% . Yet despite this massive win, Conservative and Reform politicians are instead focusing on Indian visa workers not having to pay national insurance for three years. This tax cut for Indians should be welcomed, however, both as a small price to pay for the £4.8bn gains to Britons, and, as