Brexit votes under Theresa May?
10.03.2026 11:41
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Brexit votes under Theresa May?
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OK - better - but then you still need to vote tactically in round two - though with better information .. we all knew in Gorton who would be in top 3 and over the line.
But the risk is - as per the French presidential election - that you need to vote tactically in round one. I can see that the best might be multi-round elimination voting but that is infeasible
interesting... I think AV is more plausible as an option and I think there is a real problem with 2 rounds (as with SV) that in a fragmented system, the final two is too much of a lottery...
why do you think this is better than AV?
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the picturehouse app used to be useful but is now awful as well
For all the technical detail, the politics of this statement is very interesting. It shows us just how keen the govt is to get the SPS deal done: a) by unfussily committing to align with the vast majority of EU regs and b) by clearly telling businesses to get ready to adapt.
The clearest indication yet of how extensive the UK-EU SPS agreement will be. Covers almost everything.
It also shows you where the current differences between the UK and EU lie (ie, what isn't included on the list): precision breeding/NGTs, veterinary meds, and (to a lesser extent) animal welfare.
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves just previewed a three point growth strategy - with 'Stronger post Brexit trade relations with the EU' as No.1 goal.
Though for that to be meaningful, a much broader discussion on changing the UK's stance towards getting closer to the EU will be necessary.
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we made the same point yesterday in our quick @instituteforgovernment.org.uk reaction piece. Silly to be punchy on inflation, but Reeves generally well served by avoiding making big new choices www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
quick analysis of what @instituteforgovernment.org.uk learned from the spring unfiscal event - top work from @danhaile.bsky.social @benpaxton.bsky.social @martha-ford.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
And this time round, anything the Chancellor had said, short of a Kwarteng style fiscal outing, would have been hard pressed to compete with global news. This would have been a bad day to try to commit big news. Instead we can all start speculating about what will be in the CX's Mais lecture.
But the progress today was that we had 1) no measures driven by fiscal panic; 2) no speculation in the run-up to the event; 3) no silly giveaway of additional headroom (which in any case may evaporate in the next weeks/months). I vote non-event.
Governments have to go on governing between fiscal events.. the interesting test would have been if an earlier announcement had changed the fiscal position dramatically and whether the government could have resisted responding.
Eventers then point out that the welfare changes in last year's spring statement (def a fiscal event) were announced in a Green Paper the week before. Ditto SEND. But non-eventers argue the welfare announcement was accelerated (and changed) to plug a gap in the public finances.
The non-eventers argue that the SEND announcement was long in the making, not driven by the fiscal event timetable, so picked up the next time the OBR looked at the numbers. And the govt did not introduce any new measures to pay for it.
Lively debate upstairs @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on whether this was a fiscal event or not (splitting wonkland now). The fiscal eventers (as per @ruthcurtice.bsky.social) argue that there was a big spending figure on SEND, accommodated by a significant revision to the fiscal forecast.
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when the chancellor's economic statement is light relief.
Finally, the thing we were promised in 2024: boring stable government
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the key point was it was NOT a fiscal event.. which is good because if it had been she would (probably) have to rip it up like Sunak's first budget
so CX tells us that her headroom has increased (though could easily be reversed as gilt yields rise...) #springforecast
Headroom up by about £2bn. Small in the grand scheme of the public finances. Borrowing shift overall looks like marginal improvement relative to Autumn.
Sounds angry about regional inequalities, blockers stopping builders, economy not working for everyone - lots of echoes of what 75% of past Chancellors have gone on about.
Slightly surprising news: Reeves said more detail to follow in a Mais lecture. No one has ever delivered two before ...
I am not sure I would be overemphasising inflation progress if I were the Chancellor.. Nor entirely blaming Conservatives for last inflation spike #springforecast