Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Jill Rutter
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a more serious contribution to the debate on fuel prices than we have seen from the official opposition parties
The fact that such a big element in UK fuel prices is fixed in cash excise duty means we see much lower % increases at the pump when the underlying fuel price rises. Low tax jurisdictions like the US v exposed. Can't imagine this is going down well
Prompted by @jillongovt.bsky.social I looked at what happened to NHS energy usage and spending during the energy shock in 2022
Spending increased dramatically between 2021/22 and 2022/23, from £779m to £1.2bn, an increase of 53.4% in cash terms. It's remained high since
Energy usage barely changed
The warmth of the government’s Brexit rhetoric is outpacing concrete progress
Keir Starmer’s claim that “this is not the Britain of the Brexit years” doesn’t yet add up, says @jillongovt.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/reev...
Jill Rutter
Jill Rutter
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There's a whole array of strategic bungles in this operation, it deserves a thread. 1/ below
Tim Durrant
more N Sea drilling is also not a serious short-term response. Making sure we max out the N Sea could be part of a long-term strategy
It is absolutely stupid that a major focus of policy response to the Iran War is on the planned 1p rise in fuel duty in September (watching Trevor Phillips interview Bridget Phillipson). Of no help now to anyone to abandon it. Shows how trivial our political debate has become.
