Did you know that the gap between the tax that the UK government is meant to collect compared to the tax that it actually collects is £32 billion.

George Osborne insisted on Sunday the government was "straining every effort" to tackling the economy as he indicated controversial reforms of the Hou...

Chancellor George Osborne has come under pressure from the Commons to hold down fuel prices. MPs called on the Government to scrap fuel duty rises ...

Hugh Grant strikes me as a man frustrated. Giving interviews at a fringe event at the Tory party conference this week, he once again continued his eff...

Britain is getting a bad deal from its banks. Our research has found that the five biggest UK banks enjoyed an indirect subsidy of £46bn in 2010 courtesy of the taxpayer.

George Osborne should ignore the political pressures for maintaining the 50p tax. If we want Britain to succeed in the global economy, our growth message should be that entrepreneurialism and aspiration are welcome in the UK indefinitely.

Oh, the glee on the faces of Labour Ministers as the growth figures came in at 0.2% on Tuesday. How they gloated and tried to hold a "more in sorrow than in anger" line, while dancing the fandango on the fractional number.

For a Prime Minster who promised to 'get the economy moving again' today's GDP figures must be deeply worrying. They reveal growth of just 0.2% in the second quarter of 2011. Today we've heard the additional bank holiday due to the royal wedding, the wedding itself and the warm weather in April all being held up as reasons for this poor performance. Not so long ago, the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the House of Commons and blamed the winter snow for Britain's shock plunge into negative growth at the end of 2010.

Who should pay for supporting us as we grow old and need care? That was the subject of a Government review headed by Andrew Dilnot that was published this week. The response has been almost unanimously positive, and in some areas, quite rightly.