Richard Braham

Economy, Business & Finance

Brexit: is the UK economy growing or slowing?

By Richard Braham • 2 mins

GDP growth was higher than expected in the second half of 2016. It slowed in the first three months of this year. Read

Economy, Business & Finance

Labour’s Land Value Tax: will you have to sell your garden?

By Richard Braham • 4 mins

Labour isn't committing to a 'Garden Tax'. Its manifesto only promises to review the council tax and business rate systems and consider new options such as a land value tax. Read

Economy, Business & Finance

SNP Manifesto: Future child poverty

By Joseph O’Leary and Richard Braham • 2 mins

Child poverty is projected to rise on a number of measures by 2021. Read

Economy, Business & Finance

Conservative Manifesto: Pensions

By Richard Braham • 1 min

We've factchecked claims from Theresa May's speech at the Conservative party manifesto launch. Read

Economy, Business & Finance

Has employment growth been driven by a rise in insecure, precarious work?

By Richard Braham • 4 mins

From the statistics, it doesn’t seem like unwanted part-time work or unsatisfactory temporary work has been the major driver behind the growth in employment. Read

Labour party confidence in Jeremy Corbyn

By Richard Braham • 1 min

In June 2016 three quarters of Labour MPs in the House of Commons supported a vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn. He was re-elected as Labour leader by the wider party, winning 61.8% of the vote. Read

Economy, Business & Finance

Does the Treasury lose £40 billion each year to the super-rich?

By Richard Braham • 2 mins

There’s much uncertainty here, but that claim isn’t supported by HMRC’s own estimates. The emphasis should be on the word ‘estimates’. Read

Economy, Business & Finance

Wales’s fiscal deficit: the gap between tax and spend

By Richard Braham • 2 mins

There isn’t an official government estimate for the size of the deficit between government income and spending in Wales and it’s not simple to work out. Read