Tag Archives: Osborne

Sunak needs Osborne’s rabbit and hat to win now!

Posted on July 27, 2022 by henry tapper

Yesterday I reported that Rishi Sunak had drifted to 3-1 against while Liz Truss was 3-1 on Today’s news is that the odds have widened further A Sunak win is now promising  nearly four pounds profit to a one pound … Continue reading →

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Downing Street’s three pension interventions this century.

Posted on January 29, 2022 by henry tapper

Intervention one – The Turner Commission. It is useful from time to time to revisit the work of Adair Turner’s Pension Commission which first reported in 2004. 18 years on the generation it considered “young” are now approaching the “normal … Continue reading →

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The speech we should have heard in May

Posted on January 18, 2017 by henry tapper

  What struck me , listening to Theresa May’s speech to the diplomats last night, was how we could have done with this clarity before the vote. Six months is a decent period for “post-event rationalisation” and John Godfrey and … Continue reading →

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Pump fake action!

Posted on July 19, 2016 by henry tapper

  Those familiar with basketball or gridiron, the popular American game they call football, will know about “Pump Fake Action”, it’s a move where a whole team shapes for a long and graceful passing pay, while intending to execute a … Continue reading →

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Back to business

Posted on July 3, 2016 by henry tapper

  It will be interesting, when the Pensions Regulator comes to publish its statistics, to see whether the past few days will represent a downward spike in engagement over auto-enrolment. Certainly our stats at Pension PlayPen suggest that less decisions … Continue reading →

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The great austerity experiment is over

Posted on July 2, 2016 by henry tapper

Tucked away on my news feed is a report of a speech made in Manchester by the architect of “austerity”, George Osborne. For those of us who have enjoyed the prosperity that our economic recovery has brought, austerity may seem … Continue reading →

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Budget blues for Osborne – but not for payroll

Posted on April 4, 2016 by henry tapper

This was a blue budget for George Osborne, one that promised much, and delivered little rather less than planned. Things started going wrong three weeks before Budget Day when the Treasury announced that it would not be pressing ahead with … Continue reading →

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If Osborne had stuck to his guns on pensions…

Posted on March 22, 2016 by henry tapper

  The Government is in the middle of a political not an economic crisis. The crisis began the morning the Times announced it would not be including radical plans to overhaul pensions in this year’s budget and it has deepened at each … Continue reading →

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Britain unproductive? Small wonder!

Posted on March 19, 2016 by henry tapper

“Now is not the time to change pensions tax relief”. The words of the Treasury’s press release that spelt the end of radical pensions reform (for now). Oh what an opportunity missed – and for what? To keep a party … Continue reading →

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A soft centered budget – (not as sweet as it sounded).

Posted on March 17, 2016 by henry tapper

Sterling’s a great indicator of how experts really see a budget and yesterday Sterling fell against a basket of major currencies. We may have liked our sugar tax and our Lifetime ISA but the pound fell against the dollar and … Continue reading →

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