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THE catastrophic mini-Budget statement by

THE ongoing unprecedented debacle engulfing the Tory government has been long in creation. Liz Truss is a blinkered and inflexible ideologue...

LIZ Truss’s own external economics adviser has insisted he warned her and the Chancellor about the risks of their mini-budget after Kwasi Kw...

CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed that public services face further cuts of up to £18 billion per year.

THE letter from the Office of Budget Responsibility to the SNP confirms that the new government had no intention of obtaining an economic an...

THE Westminster government paid for the Iraq war slaughter in 2003, bailed out the financial sector in 2008, had the chequebook out in 2020...

AS top global analysts grapple with the UK’s new monetary theory “collapsing the economy” fresh ways of dealing with the looming cost-of-liv...

IT’S a mess. Or it will do until a real mess comes along. I’m talking about the place where you live. Worse, there’s little chance the decli...

IT took Liz Truss’s Government just under a month to see the value of the pound drop to historic lows, the Bank of England being forced to s...

TENS of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday to mark the fifth

A LIVINGSTON MP has called for the release of a pregnant woman who is imprisoned overseas.

THE Prime Minister and Chancellor will “work closely” with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in the coming weeks and said they “val...

IN May 2010 The outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byre left a note saying there was no money left. Of course Gordon Brown...

The National is in Catalonia as it marks five years since its independence referendum on October 1, 2017. What has changed in the independen...

The National is in Catalonia as it marks five years since its independence referendum on October 1, 2017. What has changed in the independen...

DO not underestimate the mess we are in. Thanks to the hapless Truss and the arrogant but inept Kwarteng, last week’s mini-Budget has plunge...

‘GAME-changing” research has found the fiscal gap in the early days of an independent Wales would be a fraction of what has previously been...

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A BOMBSHELL letter has revealed that the Chancellor refused to commission a government watchdog to update its economic forecast alongside hi...

IN 1997 the man that sold our gold, Gordon Brown, gave independence over monetary policy to the Bank of England. This set them on the path t...

THE National reports from Catalonia this week as we mark five years since the indyref.

SCOTTISH Conservative leader Douglas Ross was caught on camera appearing to laugh and heckle as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reeled off a...

PRIME Minister Liz Truss has said she slept well while the UK economy faced turmoil sparked by her government’s mini budget.

HOUSEHOLDS are being advised to make sure they submit a meter reading to their energy firm in order to avoid paying more than they need when...

IT was my 64th birthday this week. Birthdays have never much mattered to me, least of all at this stage in my life.