Hunt’s huge missed opportunity to #TaxTheBanks
15 March 2023
March 15, 2023 Today Chancellor Jeremy Hunt presented his Spring Budget to parliament and missed a huge opportunity. After 12 years of deep public sector cuts and pay freezes, which resulted in stri …
Hunt missed opportunity for windfall tax on bank profits
15 March 2023
London, Wednesday 15th March 2023 Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Budget, Fran Boait, executive director at Positive Money, commented: “This Budget marks another missed opportunity to redistrib …
SVB collapse makes case for digital pound & Bank of England climate and capital report
13 March 2023
London, 13th March 2023 On the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Simon Youel, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Positive Money, commented: “The fact that firms’ ability to make payroll is dependent …
A fork in the road: which direction for financial services and regulation in the UK?
28 February 2023
February 28, 2023 Now is a good time to assess the future of financial regulation and financial services in the UK. It is three years since the UK left the European Union. Since then, the government a …
The housing wealth trap
23 February 2023
February 23, 2023 New data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has estimated that the value of our homes continued to boom during the second year of the pandemic. But despite this increase, C …