Growing reliance on ‘high-income’ households in South as Labour turns its back on oil and gas
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Growing reliance on ‘high-income’ households in South as Labour turns its back on oil and gas
Growing reliance on ‘high-income’ households in South as Labour turns its back on oil and gas
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Failure to incentivise aspiration, enterprise and wealth creation afflicts the whole country

North Sea oil and gas will not solve Britain’s fiscal crisis, but it could help fill the black hole

Scottish ministers control the benefit north of the border, and they will receive extra funding from the Treasury

Major energy producers are withdrawing as taxes render the North Sea unproductive

Claimants would receive less if they had another source of income and the payment would ‘gently’ taper off as earnings increased

Even with the munificence of the Barnett formula, the SNP seems unable to manage basic services