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HELLO & welcome to my weekly update no.336 I hope you had a restful and happy family Christmas and New Year. Christmas tree and cards down for the Hunt family...

HELLO & welcome to my weekly update no.335 This is my final newsletter before Christmas, and sadly the year closes with devastating shootings at Bondi Beach...

HELLO & welcome to my weekly update no.334 Westminster is calming down from the budget (a bit) but feeling rather queasy at the prospect of a pro-Russian peace...

HELLO & welcome to my weekly update no.332. Welcome to December and a very wet and windy one indeed today…perhaps appropriate as the fallout from a botched...

This article was published in The Telegraph on 27 November 2025. Budgets aren’t easy for chancellors because so many things are beyond your control. But being...

HELLO & welcome to my weekly update no.332. Wow so much happening - lots of debate ahead of the Budget. Locally some progress on the CIL scandal and our long...

This article was published in The Telegraph on 22 November 2025. I know first-hand how stressful putting together a Budget can be. On one occasion, flagship...

This article was published in the Sunday Times on 22 November 2025. The chancellor has promised us that her tax rises will be “fair”. That is usually a code for...

HELLO & welcome to my weekly update no.331 It’s just 9 days before the Budget and as someone who wanted this government to succeed (whatever we may think of its...