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Liam Halligan

4 years

My latest book "Home Truths: The UK's chronic housing shortage - how it happened, why it matters and how to solve it" Out now @BitebackPub

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

2 years

@theJeremyVine @AllisonPearson Where have you been for the last two years, Jeremy ? Why didn’t you critique or even report what you now call “the absolutely mad” - and often deeply harmful - restrictions at the time ?

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4 months

FFS!! The country is deeply shocked at the truly ghastly treatment meted out to sub postmasters across the country. If ever there was an episode that captured the disdain that the UK's political and corporate "establishment" has for the hard-working masses, this is it. The…

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At $86/barrel and €76/MWh respectively, wholesale oil/gas prices are now below where they were before Russia invaded Ukraine on 24.02.22 Yet, despite recent falls, diesel remains some 20% dearer. And we all know what has happened to household gas/electricity bills #OnTheMoney

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1 year

Crikey !! This is from OBR documents. Fuel duty hike not mentioned in the Chancellor's speech, funnily enough ....

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@LiamHalligan

9 months

This is absolutely nuts. Andrew Doyle is not only a gifted and highly original comedian. He is also one of the UK’s sharpest social commentators. For a show convened by Andrew to be “cancelled” by any self-respecting arts festival - let alone the Edinburgh Fringe - is crazy.…

Andrew Doyle

@andrewdoyle_com

9 months

Our Comedy Unleashed gig at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been CANCELLED by our venue following online pressure. It is astonishing that a comedy night at the largest arts festival in the world should be prevented from going ahead, simply because activists are offended. The…

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@LiamHalligan

8 months

This @TheFCA report into de-banking is an utter disgrace - words I don't use lightly. Did the FCA even read the 40-page dossier Coutts/Natwest wrote about @Nigel_Farage - full of references to "reputational risk" and problematic "views"? Did they read letter to Farage from now…

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

I cycle quite a lot. And I completely agree with this @spectator article. Cycling two abreast on a single lane road when there are cars around, deliberately preventing them from passing, is obnoxious - and dangerous.

The cycling habit most hated by drivers

Sunday mornings in the Hampshire countryside remind me of a medieval pageant. While marketeers open their stalls and labradors bark, you see hundreds of jousters in gaudy livery steering their...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

9 months

The Bank of England needs to stop raising interest rates - as I've been arguing since April. We need to allow the full impact of the 14 rate rises we've already had to feed through into the broader economy. There are clear signs that price pressures are abating - many input…

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@LiamHalligan

9 months

Treasury statement, sparked by @GBNews "Don't Kill Cash" campaign "GB News has it spot on – access to cash is incredibly important to many. It’s a choice that we are going to protect". "People shouldn’t have to trek for hours to withdraw a tenner to put in someone’s birthday…

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

The CPTPP is a trade agreement between 11 "Pacific Rim” nations – including Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus Mexico and Peru. With Britain joining, CPTPPP will account for 16% of global GDP, same as EU 27. By 2050 though, on World Bank forecasts, CPTPP will…

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

10 months

Our @GBNews "Don't kill cash" campaign is going gang-busters. We only launched it 24 hours ago - and already our petition, calling for cash to remain legal tender everywhere until 2050, has 95K signatures ! More than five million adults still rely on cash in the UK and it’s…

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

Raising corporation tax from 19% to 25% in April makes no sense. @RishiSunak @Jeremy_Hunt need to change their minds. The @OBR_UK should be a guide to policy, not a straitjacket. I explain why in my latest @Telegraph column, summarised below: 1/8 🧵🧵

Jeremy Hunt should ignore the doom-mongering IMF and freeze corporation tax

The Chancellor must realise that going for growth is the only way out of this mess

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

2 years

This matters

Jamie Jenkins

@statsjamie

2 years

🚨🚨 Breaking - ONS deaths data for January shows actual deaths around 93% lower than the SAGE forecast if Boris did not introduce more restrictions. ➡️ They forecast 2,890 deaths per day as a central estimate - the reality was under 200 deaths per day ❌ Forecast failures

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

3 years

I give you, my intensely thoughtful, and outrageously talented colleague - Neil Oliver @thecoastguy @GBNEWS

GB News

@GBNEWS

3 years

Neil Oliver: 'I have experienced enough of life to know that I am in mourning – in mourning for the life I used to live and, unforgivably, took for granted.'

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1 year

Last week's IMF forecast for UK growth - minus 0.3% in 2023 - featured heavily across TV/radio news bulletins. Very few mentioned that IMF also reported that in 2022 chalked up 4% growth, the fastest in the G7 – a fact, rather than a forecast. The highly-influential @EY_UKI …

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@LiamHalligan

10 months

The UK's recession alarm is flashing red - and the Bank of England's next move, in early August, is crucial. Monetary policy works with "long and variable lags" - and we've already had thirteen rates rises in eighteen months. Having been slow to recognise looming inflation, and…

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

Bercow is out of control It’s long been clear he isn’t “neutral” and is out to thwart Brexit And it was disgraceful how staff-bullying issue (highlighted in a Sel Ctte report) was hushed up But this latest outburst is beyond the pale - ridiculously rude and deeply ill-advised.

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@WestminsterWAG

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Insult me, insult my husband - but don’t bring the kids into it. Please. And thank you.

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@LiamHalligan

11 months

“The Bank of England must now hold fire on interest rates” “The Bank has compounded its errors in recent months, attempting to over-compensate for previous mistakes”. “The MPC - and Treasury - also need to ditch groupthink and acknowledge the inflationary impact of the massive…

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@LiamHalligan

8 months

The Tories have a tax problem and a debt problem. Not only are taxation levels approaching a 70-year high, but debt service costs are upwards of £110bn this year. That's an astonishing 10pc of total government revenue, with interest payments now the second-largest expenditure…

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

Congrats @CamillaTominey @toryboypierce Michael Portillo on joining @GBNEWS - as the channel announces another £60m of investment "I give it a year, tops," wrote one snide reviewer as we launched in June 2021 Well, 14 months on we're still here and going strong ! #OnTheMoney

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2 years

Raising taxes “into recession, when interest rates are rising” poses “real risk of a vicious spiral” says Lord @DavidGHFrost . Points to “hypocrisy” of UK fracking ban “while importing large quantities of fracked gas from US” Exclusive @GBNEWS interview

Lord Frost urges the Prime Minister to change course - London Post

LORD David Frost fears we are “swinging back to George Osborne style austerity” – and has urged Rishi Sunak to change course. In an exclusive GB News interview, Lord Frost also said he felt Liz Truss...

london-post.co.uk

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

Back in late 2020, I used my @Telegraph column to warn of "surging post-lockdown inflation", calling for the Bank of England to raise interest rates. The usual suspects dismissed such warnings - insisting any inflation would be "transitory". That worked out well! Since January…

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@LiamHalligan

5 months

As a young political correspondent in the mid-1990s, for The Financial Times, part of my job was to get to know and to understand the big beasts of the Labour front bench in the House of Commons. It was clear that the Tories were in for a hiding, and Tony Blair's party would…

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@LiamHalligan

4 months

This is a big deal - the UK is now making 1m-plus cars and vans a year for the first time since the pandemic. A rapid recovery, given that we dipped to around 775,000 per annum due to lockdown. Most of these UK-built automotives are made by foreign-owned firms. But at least the…

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@Jefferson_MFG

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BOOM! British factories built more than ONE MILLION vehicles last year for the first time since before the pandemic. A total of 1,025,474 cars and commercial vehicles were built, an increase of 17% on the previous year, according to the latest Society of Motor Manufacturers and…

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@LiamHalligan

9 months

“Pound Hog Day” In the last half hour, more than 6,000 @GBNEWS viewers and listeners have signed our “Don’t Kill Cash” online petition at Over five million of us, particularly the elderly, rely on cash each day - this rapid shift to a cashless society…

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@LiamHalligan

7 months

I’m a print journalist, who transitioned to TV many years ago. Some might say I took a while to get the hang of it. This guy - @christopherhope - has been a TV broadcaster for about five minutes. And, having just led the @GBNEWS coverage of #CPC2023 , it is clear he is a total…

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

HS2 is a ridiculously expensive political vanity project delivering few benefits - and should be scrapped. My @Telegraph latest

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

This is quite astonishing .... @benhabib6 question was 1 second too long, after he spent 2 seconds at the start to check the mike was working. The arrogance of the chair - refusing to take his question - is just breath-taking. What the hell were you thinking @MaireadMcGMEP ??

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@benhabib6

5 years

I waited patiently all morning to ask why the EU, a self proclaimed rules based organisation, had breached clause 12 of the agreement to extend Article 50 by reopening negotiations. I was given 30 seconds to ask my question and then shut down. Such is their “democracy”.

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

Doom-mongers who characterise WTO rules as “crashing out of the EU” or “unthinkable” are either ignorant, trying to stop a meaningful Brexit or want to reverse the 2016 vote altogether. I’m afraid that includes our Prime Minister. My @telegraph latest

Project Fear is back - and bigger than ever

Ahead of the June 2016 referendum, a Remain-backing prime minister used a padded-out HM Treasury study to claim voting Brexit would spark “an immediate and profound economic shock”.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

I have a lot of respect for Ken Clarke as a former Chancellor. But he is talking absolutely scare-mongering rot about leaving with No Deal on @lbc right now. Multiple statements that are entirely factually inaccurate. Given endless time and entirely unchallenged .....

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@LiamHalligan

9 months

@andrewdoyle_com Keep going mate. The vast, vast majority of the British public thinks this ghastly “cancel culture” is now way out of hand. It’s no longer an option to just keep silent and let it happen. Diversity of opinion, thought and outlook - as well as good comedy - is simply too…

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@LiamHalligan

4 years

The fact Tony Hall only dares make this screamingly obvious point now, and in such a feeble manner, as he heads out the door, speaks volumes about BBC’s deeply engrained, & incredibly damaging, lack of COGNITIVE diversity - the most vital diversity of all

Tony Hall: BBC needs wider diversity of opinion

Outgoing director-general says corporation must move to regions to reflect more views

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

2 years

Market chaos was triggered by the government’s inept handling and timing of its policy measures, not the measures themselves. To suggest otherwise is fundamentally to misunderstand what is happening across global markets and why. My @Telegraph latest

The trashing of Truss's mini-Budget is an economic tragedy

Disastrous communications and febrile markets have destroyed Britain's best hope for growth

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@LiamHalligan

7 months

I did indeed. Here’s me predicting an “inflation surge” due to Covid-era QE and supply chain constraints in my @Telegraph column in March 2021 “New QE variant conceals inflation menace”. At the time, my warnings were ridiculed by Treasury types. CPI inflation back then was…

Dr Anthony Hinton

@TonyHinton2016

7 months

No @Jeremy_Hunt WE didn’t underestimate the effect of money printing on inflation YOU and your government colleagues did. I’m not an economist, I’m just a surgeon but I could see what was coming with inflation, clever people like @LiamHalligan told you.

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8 months

⬇️⬇️⬇️🖊️🖊️🖊️ My latest weekly @Telegraph column - on the white elephant vanity project that is HS2. "The UK is already the world’s most regionally lopsided developed nation – and a slew of international evidence suggests a high-speed link like HS2, far from spreading regional…

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8 months

"View the head who proudly tells you that every child will get a Chromebook with wariness, not unquestioning acclaim – shouldn’t all that money have been spent on great teachers and teaching assistants?" Actress and mother of two Sophie Winkleman explains in @spectator why she…

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@LiamHalligan

8 months

Blimey !!

Jefferson

@Jefferson_MFG

8 months

🚨 BREAKING: The UK has leapfrogged France to become the 8th largest manufacturer in the world. With an annual output of £224 billion, the buoyant sector now supports 2.6 million jobs according to new data released this morning by trade association @MakeUK_ . The figures are…

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5 years

"The demonisation of WTO rules isn’t just economically illiterate. It’s a deliberate ploy to tie the UK’s hands, generating an exit deal so unattractive that Britain ends up staying” My @Telegraph @telebusiness latest.

Remainers have scuppered a 'clean Brexit'

"The public have voted and it’s seriously disrespectful and politically utterly counterproductive to say ‘sorry guys’ you’ve got it wrong, we’re going to try again.

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

2 years

“I give it a year - tops!” wrote one snide reviewer when we launched in June 2021. Sixteen months on, @GBNEWS is growing fast ! 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

GB News

@GBNEWS

2 years

🚀📻 GB News Radio is the fastest-growing UK news station after its average weekly audience grew by a massive 50%! GB News Radio also bucked a national trend by becoming the only news station to increase its weekly audience. Thank you, Britain!

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

When sky-high household energy bills land on nation’s collective doormat in April, the atmosphere could turn nasty - protests & non-payment Cost of living crisis - more inflation, tax rises & above all energy bills - will convulse politics just ahead of May local elections 1/4

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

This is dangerous, incendiary nonsense. From a BBC presenter, no less. Am SO sick of such woefully out-of-touch, self-indulgent tosh. As is, I suspect, the vast majority of the population of this country. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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@Botanygeek

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Absolutely U.K. gardening culture has racism baked into its DNA. It’s so integral that when you point out it’s existence, people assume you are against gardening, not racism. Epitomised, for example, by the fetishisation (and wild misuse) of words like ‘heritage’ and ‘native’.

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3 years

Last night’s interview with Chancellor Rishi Sunak sees @GBNEWS secure this morning’s @telebusiness splash. Not too shabby! @afneil

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

The lack of official cost-benefit analysis ahead of a policy that has caused the deepest depression in three centuries, sent our national debt into orbit and destroyed countless businesses and livelihoods is simply astonishing My @telegraph latest

Covid’s economic carnage also costs lives

Unemployment is soaring and Britain's debt pile is a mountain - it's time for a cost-benefit analysis of lockdown

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@LiamHalligan

6 months

Thanks - very kind of you. There's very little positive feedback in the TV news business - so it's nice when audience members are complimentary.

Melvyn ' The only way is Arsenal' Marks

@MelvynMarks

6 months

@AllisonPearson @LiamHalligan is the one of the most informative financial journalists out there. I find it so refreshing how he explains everything so clearly to his audience.

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

4 years

👀👀 Attempts to discredit “Great Barrington Declaration” are cranking up Written by three world class epidemiologists, it has 200K signatories after less than a week, including 000s of scientists/medics Now it seems Google has blocked the petition on iUK search engine 👀👀

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

10 months

"Don't Kill Cash" Our @GBNews campaign to retain cash as legal tender - acceptable everywhere in the UK, until 2050 - is gathering pace. Less than 48 hours since we launched - and we already have more than 140K names on our petition. Powerful vested interests are pushing for a…

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@GBNEWS

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Britain is fast becoming a cashless society. Click to below to sign the GB News petition to save cash now ⬇️ #DontKillCash

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

“I give it a year, tops” said one particularly mean newspaper review when we launched. Well, exactly one year on today, @GBNews is thriving –with a solid tech platform, a strong line-up of appointment-to-view shows and a fast-growing audience. #OnTheMoney #PeoplesChannel

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

It's vital we don't overdo catastrophism about UK public finances 10-year gilt yield is below 3.2% - compared to 3.5% day BEFORE Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget UK 10-year state borrowing costs BELOW 3.8% in US ! Other countries AREN'T raising taxes into a slowdown !! @GBNEWS

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

Thanks I strongly believe there is huge public appetite for long-form interviews asking tough, well-informed questions, while giving politicians a chance to express different angles/nuances. It’s an unfashionable view within broadcasting, but a battle I intend to keep fighting

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@poppyandrosey

1 year

What a great guy is Liam Halligan. An excellent interviewer as demonstrated by his GBNews interview. Listens without interrupting and is very professional. A great journalist and a major GBNews asset. @GBNEWS @LiamHalligan

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@LiamHalligan

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Check out the UN's Food and Agriculture Index - which shows twelve successive months of FALLING global food prices. Yet today's ONS data show shoppers enduring food price inflation of 18% during the year to February, rising to 19.1% in March - a 45-year high. Food supply chains…

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Liam Halligan

@LiamHalligan

3 months

Some thoughts on UK utility bills and "net zero" .... From April, households using an average amount of energy will face an annual bill of £1,690 for their combined gas and electricity – down from £1,928 between January and March – after regulator Ofgem lowered the energy price…

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@LiamHalligan

4 years

This is a well-written, compelling and historically significant speech - by David Frost, the UK’s negotiator with the EU. Everyone on Twitter should read it - whether they voted Leave or Remain

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@LiamHalligan

6 years

Treasury’s “sums don’t stack up” as driven by outdated, erroneous assumptions. Also driven by relentless determination of over-entitled politicians & civil servants to sabotage Brexit. Me in @Telegraph @telebusiness

Brexit sums don’t stack up? I agree entirely

"We now face a series of choices about the kind of Brexit we want,” said George Osborne last week.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

Nice. This guy is paid hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money each year to opine on TV and radio .... and he can't handle even the tiniest bit of pushback, debate or discussion. Pathetic !

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

@theJeremyVine @AllisonPearson Where have you been for the last two years, Jeremy ? Why didn’t you critique or even report what you now call “the absolutely mad” - and often deeply harmful - restrictions at the time ?

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2 years

On @GBNEWS , I asked Professor Patrick Minford if @trussliz tax plans are credible. "They're not only credible, they're vital", he said. "Higher corporation tax and national insurance both reduce supply, and impact growth" #OnTheMoney

‘They’re not only credible, they’re vital’ | Patrick Minford on Liz...

‘They’re [Liz Truss’ tax plans] not only credible, they’re vital.’Professor Patrick Minford praises Liz Truss’ tax plans, saying her proposal to reverse a ri...

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@LiamHalligan

9 months

UK CPI inflation up 6.8% during the year to July, down from 8.7% in May and 7.9% in June - as I just said on @GBNEWS . Inflation continues to drop quite quickly. "Core" inflation (excluding food/energy) still 6.9% in July, unchanged from the month before. But Producer Price…

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

Am hearing lots of chatter among City types re @johnredwood possibly part of @trussliz plans for government His blog has certainly become required reading for serious analysts of UK economy Here’s recent 25 min interview I did for @GBNEWS #MoneyTalks

Money Talks with Liam Halligan and Sir John Redwood

Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News. In this episode, Liam talks to Former Conservative Cab...

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

Cheers Colin. Well done mate on the first week of your fantastic show with @MercyMuroki . Here’s to many, many more. We ain’t going anywhere, people. @GBNEWS is here for keeps.

Colin Brazier

@ColinBrazierTV

3 years

“We GB News types”. Spot on from ⁦ @LiamHalligan ⁩ in today’s Spectator.

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

I consider myself extremely lucky to be paired with @GloriaDePiero on @GBNEWS She is smart, authentic and determined to report on and speak up for all areas of our country. Gloria is also a hugely talented, warm and instinctive broadcaster. Can't wait to start !

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6 years

My latest @C4Dispatches will be broadcast this coming Wednesday 22nd August at 10.30pm It's an in-depth hour-long investigation into the collapse of Carillion - the most shocking business story I've ever covered.

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

“It is time to let the young live their lives”. My latest weekly “Economic Agenda” column for @telegraph @telebusiness on the urgent, long overdue need for genuine “cost-benefit analysis” of lockdown.

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1 year

This episode of Planet Normal from 9th March, contains the very last interview with Nigel Lawson (time-code 29.05). I visited Lord Lawson at his flat in Eastbourne, and we spent two hours chatting about politics and economics, sharing lunch and lots of laughs. He was, in his…

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@LiamHalligan

4 months

The Planet Normal podcast that I present with @AllisonPearson has built a battalion of loyal followers. Listeners send us hundreds of emails each week, and some have even started writing special poems, inspired by our discussions of news and politics. Planet Normal's most…

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@LiamHalligan

4 months

Thanks for kind words. All too rare in the world of TV news

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@JuneT42774

4 months

@LiamHalligan @GBNEWS Despite being incredibly smart, Liam always manages to explain complex financial stuff clearly and easily on GB news, and for that I think him. I actually look forward to him being interviewed because he's so good.

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

@tnewtondunn Away with your smears, Tom. It isn’t very complex - it really isn’t. Leaving the single market and customs union isn’t “hard” Brexit. It is Brexit.

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

In light of rising "core" inflation – 6.8% during the year to April, up from 6.2% in March – UK 10-year gilt yield is rising fast. That unfortunately points to spiralling borrowing costs for mortgage-holders, companies and the government. Gilt yields are now approaching levels…

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

"The 'backstop' has been cooked up by Brussels and Dublin to derail Brexit and keep the UK in the customs union". "It imperils not only the 1998 Good Friday agreement, but the precious progress since made in Anglo-Irish relations". My @telegraph latest

Drop backstop for a free-trade agreement

The 320-mile land border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic runs through towns, along rivers and even divides individual farms.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

Brave, insightful piece from @Fox_Claire The venom and bile I’ve also experienced, aimed directly at me when speaking at literary festivals and other public debates - almost always as the lone Brexiteer on the panel - has been deeply shocking And TOTALLY unjustified ...

Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

5 years

Me in @spectator on the Secret Brexiteers and how many now coming 'out and proud' in response to @brexitparty_uk

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

This ….. is a superbly crafted, powerful and important statement by my @GBNEWS colleague @colinbrazierGBN I’m proud to work alongside him.

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Colin Brazier: Like us or not, GB News is a media phenomenon

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My take on Rachel Reeves' speech: "The Shadow Chancellor gave a key-note conference speech short on specific policies but long on crowd-pleasing rhetoric, as she sought to reassure financial markets that a Labour administration would not borrow and spend irresponsibly ... ...…

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Baroness Fox is exactly right. The greenbelt now covers 13% of our landmass - an area that has more than doubled over the last 40 years. Residential buildings, including gardens, cover less than 2%. Much of the greenbelt is inaccessible to the public and unremarkable or ugly…

Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

1 year

Late-night exasperation in response to Green Party arguing against economic growth (amid a cost-of-living crisis...!) We won't solve the housing crisis if development stagnates, or people peddle misinformation that even a review of the Green Belt = an attack on parks, gardens etc

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This is an interesting intervention from @trussliz A lot of people I know - men and especially women - who have little time for the former Prime Minister's broader views on economics and politics, are nonetheless profoundly concerned about the sanctity of "safe spaces" for…

Liz Truss

@trussliz

2 months

I urge the Government to back my Bill this Friday. It will protect children from body-altering decisions. It will mean only biological females can access girls’ and women's toilets as well as sports. Guidance is not enough. The law needs to change.👇

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I don’t “chase” followers by being deliberately controversial. The world is nuanced, and I try to reflect and explain that nuance - because I genuinely believe that is what good journalists should do. Also, during the early days of @Twitter I didn’t “buy” followers - unlike a lot…

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@MattHarperUK

9 months

37.8K followers is good, but when I see the 100s of 1,000s some people have, it makes me think our @elonmusk ought to Default all UK Twitter members to follow @LiamHalligan so the whole of UK can be educated, if not globally. @GBNEWS

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2 years

Fair play @michaelgove for 25-minute live interview, ranging from housing policy and fracking detail to big picture politics. Ministers & shadow ministers: if you want a grown-up conversation - and you're across your brief - my door is open. @GBNEWS #OnTheMoney

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An absolute brilliant firm but fair interview by @LiamHalligan with @michaelgove . 👏👏 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 A refreshing unbiased interview with Secretary of State. Asking the right questions and getting clear answers. Ministers will be queueing up to be interviewed on @GBNEWS #LevellingUp

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2 months

Very kind - thank you !

John Steele 🇬🇧

@johnsteele83

2 months

@LiamHalligan I really enjoy listening to you when you are in GB News, you make everything so simple and clear. @GBNEWS

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

Am so pleased about this. @AlStewartOBE is a class act - who I worked with at ITN. Delighted we are colleagues once again, at @GBNEWS A fabulous hire !

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Journalist @AlStewartOBE joins GB News.

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Great signing ! Am delighted to welcome @thecoastguy to the @GBNEWS line-up

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Television presenter, journalist and archaeologist @thecoastguy joins GB News.

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Chapeau to @FraserNelson @ProfKarolSikora @spectator I’m proud Prof Sikora appeared on the Planet Normal podcast, presented by me and @AllisonPearson , all the way back in June 2020. To question lockdown then, pointing out the obvious long-term…

Why The Spectator didn’t cancel Karol Sikora

Karol Sikora became the most expensive speaker in The Spectator’s history, insofar as it cost us £25,000 to keep him

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

Blame QE monster for market meltdown - this "mini-budget" was the spark, not the underlying cause. My @Telegraph latest

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@LiamHalligan

4 years

Honest, well-judged and eminently sane piece on the vital question of vaccine V “population immunity” - by Raj Bhopal, Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University

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9 months

Ghastly PMI survey numbers this morning - suggesting the UK economy is now stalling badly. UK Manufacturing PMI fell to 42.5 in August, while Services PMI dropped to 48.7 (with readings below 50 signalling economic contraction). Having raised interest rates 14 times since…

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2 months

UK energy security is a hugely pressing issue … In this clip, I try to explain why …

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@GBNEWS

2 months

Successive UK governments of all parties have ‘seriously disregarded UK energy security over many years’, says @LiamHalligan responding to a new report by @OEUK_ . 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 🔓 Become a GB News Member:

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@LiamHalligan

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@CatharineHoey @thatginamiller Thanks so much Kate. It’s rarely appreciated - but I do my best, and try hard to speak up for ordinary workers and families across the UK. Nice to get some positive feedback

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The Bank of England's "groupthink" will be its undoing - and has seriously damaged the UK economy. My latest weekly "Economic Agenda" column @Telegraph @TelePolitics @TeleBusiness

Lord King’s attack on the Bank of England doesn’t go far enough

Monetary Policy Committee’s lack of dissenting voices made the situation worse

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

"Upbeat views on WTO rules, from people of massive expertise, attract scant attention”. "We’re pummelled, instead, with endless scare stories, from relentlessly Remain-backing broadcasters, trying to guide public opinion towards a second referendum"

Brexit backsliders are flirting with disaster

‘The British people made their wishes clear and I absolutely accept the result,” said the then-home secretary to the October 2016 Conservative party conference.

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

@tnewtondunn Nonsense. The soft/hard Brexit distinction was invented after the referendum - practically unheard of during the campaign - to muddy the waters and try to stymie leave. “Taking back control of laws, borders and money” means being outside the EU’s two main legal constructs.

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I'm proud to say that I knew Frank Field well - and spoke with him about politics and society regularly over three decades. He was a man who, throughout his life, displayed enormous kindness and courage. I'm grateful to @Bannmatt @BBCRadio4 for asking me discuss Frank's life on…

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

I do think @pollytoynbee is a top writer, as I say here. Even if we often disagree But why instantly launch personal insults Polly - as you did on @BBCPolitics ? Anyone with different opinion from you is, from the outset, “extreme” or “insane” or “immoral” Does noone any good..

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@LiamHalligan

3 years

And here’s an interview with Stanford Professor Jay Battacharya backing exactly what @danwootton is saying It’s not a “false narrative” but a view held by many world-leading epidemiologists Why so scared of debate @jimwaterson ? Do you do no research ?

Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

3 years

Andrew Neil’s opening monologue on GB News was about how the channel wouldn’t push false narratives. Anyway an hour later there’s an uninterrupted, unchallenged to-camera monologue by host Dan Wootton on GB News about how lockdowns don’t work. This is definitely new territory.

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Classy intervention below from one of the UK’s most widely-admired MPs - who also happens to be Chair of the Commons Education Select Committee. I used to so admire the @OpenUniversity But now it’s become close-minded - and inappropriately named …. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Robert Halfon MP ➡️Working Hard for Harlow⬅️

@halfon4harlowMP

3 years

Very disappointing that an institution I much admire - @OpenUniversity - has chosen to participate in an advertising boycott of @GBNEWS - especially with presenters like @AlStewartOBE & @GloriaDePiero & their work on education. This decision is wrongheaded & should be reversed.

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2 years

"While traditionally the party of aspiring homeownership, the Tories should switch to building council houses if they want to remain in office". My latest weekly @Telegraph column

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

Very kind. I try hard to make my economic analysis substantial, but accessible. Nice to get some kind feedback

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@paulineannejack

1 year

@GBNEWS @LiamHalligan @LiamHalligan is the best economist in the country in my opinion. Down to earth. 👌

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@LiamHalligan

2 years

Here's a new @GBNEWS promo. We've been on air for almost a year - and, yes, we've had ups and downs (as with any start-up) But do NOT under-estimate the quality of our on- and off-camera team or our combined determination to break the mould of British broadcasting #weareGBNews

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#weareGBNews

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@LiamHalligan

4 years

I was in Cubs, Sea Scouts, got my Chief Scouts Award, volunteered as an instructor during student days The Scouts were SO important to my childhood development I think it's mad to take down Baden Powells’ statue - and I suspect many many millions of decent people agree with me

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

Neither of these outcomes, each significant in their way, have been reported by mainstream broadcasters Imagine the coverage if UK had fallen out of the top-10 places to do business. Or if venture capital raised by British firms in 2018 was 70% LESS than in France/Germany

Tony Armstrong

@TheRetroExec

5 years

With thanks to ⁦ @LiamHalligan ⁩ for pointing this out in his ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ column this morning

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@LiamHalligan

5 years

@PCollinsTimes Or just leave, Phil. WTO rules. The same rules under which UK trades with US, US with EU, EU with China - most trade in the world. This option demonised by multiple self-serving groups. But remains best way to leave and good platform to negotiate long-term EU trade agreement ....

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@LiamHalligan

1 year

CPI inflation remains stubbornly high at 10.1% - and there are two main reasons. The first is the price of putting a roof over your head - up 26.1% over the last 12 months The second is spiralling food price inflation - which at 19.1% during the year to March is at a 45-year…

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@LiamHalligan

2 months

Me neither !! 😉

Ruth Smith

@laidmanr

2 months

I never understood economics until I began listening to @LiamHalligan

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