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@rcolvile Avatar @rcolvile Robert Colvile

Robert Colvile posts on X about london, cuts, insurance, debt the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence finance #2305 travel destinations #783

Social topic influence london #67, cuts 0.43%, insurance 0.43%, debt 0.43%, housing market 0.43%, homes 0.43%, save the 0.43%, gdp 0.43%, $2651t 0.43%, state of XXXX%

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"Stride speech opens up a pretty huge divide. Both Labour and Tories now agree that were spending more than we can afford. Labour wants to solve this pretty much entirely via tax rises Tories via spending cuts. (I know which side Im on)"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-06T08:54Z 60.7K followers, 28.2K engagements

"ONS: Last months borrowing was the highest August total since the pandemic. Although overall tax and National Insurance receipts were noticeably up on last year these increases were outstripped by higher spending on public services benefits and debt interest"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-09-19T07:08Z 60.7K followers, 6993 engagements

"Absolutely devastating data on the London housing market from @MoliorLondon today. Sales and starts (on private schemes of 20+ homes) both heading towards zero. (1/)"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-14T11:11Z 60.7K followers, 112.4K engagements

"ICYMI wrote yesterday on why we're ignoring the OBR forecasts that REALLY matter"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-13T12:57Z 60.7K followers, 2067 engagements

"The central aim of policy should be to boost real GDP per capita as that translates directly into better living standards. Every policy decision should be judged against this measure. @DrGerardLyons on how to save the economy (and maybe the Tories)"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-06T09:49Z 60.7K followers, 6808 engagements

"This feels slightly tacky/offensive/misguided"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-14T10:55Z 60.7K followers, 156.8K engagements

"Really interesting & important piece of work from @BritishProgress - asked XXX thinkers what Britain needs to grow and got a really striking level of consensus esp around 1) planning and 2) energy"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-05T09:34Z 60.6K followers, 22.1K engagements

"Dominic Lawson is sadly right here. The Tories are indeed the most fiscally responsible of the main parties but even they are refusing to confront the full horror of the fiscal situation"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-12T08:15Z 60.6K followers, 6918 engagements

"Key points: - Unaffordable to build in 1/2 of London even if the land were free - Private construction 5k in 2025 (vs 88k benchmark) - XX% of unbuilt planning permissions are 18m+ aka the Building Safety Regulator death zone - 'Completions are set to disappear after 2027'"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-14T11:16Z 60.7K followers, 148.2K engagements

"The real problem with this report is not that Miliband was consulted but that the numbers were deliberately skewed to make his plans look good as @CPSThinkTank has repeatedly highlighted"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-10T09:29Z 60.6K followers, 15.7K engagements

"More ambitious planning reform is not only a great thing in and of itself. Its one of the few things the OBR is willing to score as an unambiguously pro-growth measure (for v obvious reasons). No wonder Reeves is pushing it"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-15T07:04Z 60.7K followers, 6676 engagements

"By the logic of this report 'Hope Not Hate' are left-wingers. Hope Not Hate are a toxic influence on our democracy. Therefore all left-wingers are a toxic influence on our democracy"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-10T06:29Z 60.7K followers, 10.7K engagements

"In fact their main criticism of the plan is that it is only being abolished for primary residences rather than abolished full stop"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-09T16:15Z 60.7K followers, 12.4K engagements

"It is worth pointing out that multiple UK parliamentarians including IDS @TomTugendhat and @NeilDotObrien are still sanctioned by the Chinese state which does not appear to have changed our government's approach one iota"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-12T18:09Z 60.7K followers, 9249 engagements

"As I wrote in June this is basically now an emergency situation which needs emergency action"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-14T11:18Z 60.7K followers, 8600 engagements

"'Like Zeno's paradox we're always heading towards a theoretical state of balanced budgets and fiscal rectitude and never actually getting there'. Me for @thetimes on why our budgeting system really is a mess (link below)"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-12T10:35Z 60.7K followers, 5177 engagements

"Pretty solid consensus among economists that stamp duty is the worst major tax. Good on Kemi for saying so too"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-08T11:10Z 60.7K followers, 73.4K engagements

"@NielsWRakhorst @guy_herbert @thetimes Its a fair point but the things mostly driving the divergence are beyond govts control - pandemic global economy etc. But there is still that persistent over-optimism on spending because the forecast is always rigged to deliver theoretical savings down the line"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-12T12:20Z 60.6K followers, XX engagements

"(@ClaireCoutinho has a very good line on this which is that Ed is so worried about the risks of a X% variable mortgage he's taking out a XX% fixed rate.)"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-11T08:26Z 60.7K followers, 2748 engagements

"Current UK gas price: 86p/therm. Your views @Ed_Miliband"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-11T08:23Z 60.6K followers, 7766 engagements

"'The simplest explanation for the productivity downgrade is that productivity kept getting downgraded.' Me for @thetimes on how the OBR ruined Reeves's summer"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-12T08:16Z 60.7K followers, 5918 engagements

"@realspidermannn I'm not denying it's had an economic impact but the pandemic had a bigger one Plus lots of the 'Brexit has left us X% smaller' stuff is quite dubious if you dig into it. Generally however I would argue that all this has just brought forward the looming demographic crunch"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-15T09:41Z 60.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Wealth taxes are a bad idea anyway but a one-off one is even more stupid for the very simple reason that HMRC has no idea how much wealth anyone has. So you have to build a load of capacity to evaluate (and contest) that which youd only use once"
X Link @rcolvile 2025-10-13T08:16Z 60.7K followers, 33.4K engagements