Recording of Liam Halligan's latest "Ask Me Anything" • When The Facts Change host responds to audience questions about Rachel Reeves's Spring Statement and the economic fallout from conflict in the Middle East

Exclusive: War in Iran, UK Economy on the Brink, the Future of Politics • Liam Halligan talks exclusively to political scientist Matt Goodwin

THE BOND MARKETS REALLY MATTER ... AND THE UK IS VULNERABLE • Liam Halligan interview Shadow Chancellor Rt Hon Mel Stride MP

Middle East turmoil causes UK borrowing costs to spike • Join Liam Halligan for Ask Me Anything session at 8pm tonight (Tuesday 3rd March) - open to ALL paid and free subscribers

When The Facts Change ASK ME ANYTHING - Tuesday 3rd March, 8pm UK time • Liam Halligan's inaugural Substack interactive LIVESTREAM session will be held tomorrow evening, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves's Spring Statement.

With the oil price spiking, will Rachel Reeves now ease the North Sea energy profits levy? • Crude prices have spiked 12% overnight after US attack on Iran, and are now up 35% over the last two months, seriously complicating the UK's energy crunch.

Net Zero Madness is Destroying British Industry • Oil and Gas industry insider Francis Egan warns of escalating growth and jobs fall-out.

Ex-Bank of England Policymaker warns UK inflation is still a problem. • Dr Andrew Sentance CBE calls for reform of both the Monetary Policy Committee and the Office for Budget Responsibility

PERSONAL POST: Alaric Bamping, 12th April 1954 to 30th December 2025 • I recently spoke at the funeral of an old friend – someone I often disagreed with, but who I liked and admired very much

When The Facts Change Show: Japan's dangerous election, why the Bank of England was right and Trump's choice in Iran • Liam argues why UK interest rates should stay put, examines what's at stake in Iran and explains the possible global backlash from the "yen carry trade"

Financial markets will likely punish any escalation of Labour's nasty internal war • UK government borrowing costs are rising again – because any internal replacements for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are likely to borrow and spend even more ....

When The Facts Change Show: Over-valued equity markets, Trump's Greenland deal and the future of British steel-making • Western equity markets, hyped-up by AI stocks, have kept climbing during early 2026 – despite a sharp escalation in geopolitical tensions and a grim economic outlook

When The Facts Change Show: Jenrick's defection, can the UK electricity grid cope and how 'geopolitics, stupid' will dominate 2026. • Latest WTFC episode ranges from UK economics and politics to Venezuela, the Middle East and the South China Sea

EXCLUSIVE. Liam Halligan & Matt Goodwin: The UK economy in 2025 - implosion in 2026? • An hour-long end-of-year discussion on a turbulent economic and political year for the UK – with economist Liam Halligan and political scientist Matt Goodwin

The Bank of England should NOT cut interest rates this week – but almost certainly will • UK inflation remains high among comparable nations and lowering rates again now won't encourage growth – but will damage Britain's already battered policy credibility

NEW "When The Facts Change" SHOW: The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates while British consumer sentiment is on the floor • On the UK High Street, the Christmas tills aren't ringing

UK unemployment is becoming a problem – fuelled by tax rises and related slow growth • Chancellor Rachel Reeves refuses to acknowledge that her national insurance increase "jobs tax" is pushing up unemployment, particularly among youngsters

NEW "When the Facts Change" SHOW: Rachel Reeves's Second Budget, Labour doubles-down on risk • The Chancellor just hiked taxes £30bn a year after £40bn of annual tax rises in last October's budget. Despite the extra cash, and Reeves's prudent rhetoric, borrowing is spiralling out of control

LIVE Budget Breakdown with Expert Analyst Liam Halligan • A recording from Liam Halligan and Konstantin Kisin's live video

Budget Week is Upon Us ... I sit down with Dr David Starkey • Fantasy economics has gripped the Establishment

UK economy shrank during September • With her Budget Statement in less than a fortnight, Rachel Reeves faces yet more evidence that tax rises, and fears of more to come, are crushing consumer and business confidence.

Three reasons why UK unemployment is up so sharply • Jobless totals are now the highest since lockdown, with firms spooked by rising taxation and union-friendly "back to the 70s" employment legislation

UK politics - the economy moves centre stage • Britain's looming Budget Statement has sparked a flurry of economic speech-making. But the UK's newspaper headline-writers are missing the main story

A Personal Note .... a tribute to my father • Martin Halligan (09.07.1938 - 02.11.2025) - Rest In Peace

Labour's Employment Rights Bill is deeply-counter-productive • Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith explains why this "back to the 1970s" legislation will curtail both hiring and growth, doing further damage to the UK's public finances

You can't tax your way to growth • Faced with a fiscal "black hole", Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to hike taxes even more in her upcoming budget, which will hammer growth, further damaging the UK's public finances.

"Britain is a beacon of economic stability" Really? • Chancellor Reeves needs to stop saying things that she wishes were true but clearly aren't. She just undermines her credibility even more, which in turn further damages the UK.

The UK's "inflation outlier" status becomes more stark • The OECD's verdict on high-price Britain is the last thing the government needs

Ben Houchen on "net zero", Nissan and the future of the Tories • The Teesside Mayor weighs in on the threat posed to the Tory party and its leadership in the wake of the defection of Danny Kruger MP to Reform

The Bank of England was right to hold rates - but while the bond-selling retreat is welcome, it's too little, too late • The Monetary Policy Committee needs to suspend its "quantitative tightening" programme immediately, to take at least some pressure off Britain's extremely fragile public finances

Liam Halligan talks to Andrew Neil on Times Radio • Even though French national debt is higher than in the UK, the fiscal situation in Britain is in some ways worse

EXCLUSIVE: Liam Halligan & Matt Goodwin discuss Reform's 2025 party conference • Nigel Farage is the favourite on betting markets to be the UK's next Prime Minister. It's time to understand who Reform are and how they plan to change Britain

EXCLUSIVE: Liam Halligan, Matt Goodwin on the UK's looming economic meltdown, the "toxic cocktail" of financial ruin, the migration chaos and lots more. • A one-hour discussion with one of the UK's leading political analysts

Reaction to "When The Facts Change" interview with Professor Jagjit Chadha • Warning from leading Cambridge academic that a "1976 IMF-style bailout is now on the cards" leads the news and generates a slew of follow-up coverage

A 1976-style financial meltdown is "very much on the cards" • Prof Jagjit Chadha, the outgoing head of the highly-influential National Institute for Economic and Social Research, warns that a UK fiscal collapse "is now a real and present danger".

Britain has an inflation problem • The UK's status as an inflation "outlier" is becoming ever more stark – and that will lead to a lot more speculative pressure on the UK's sovereign bond market.