@Tim_Wallace

Deputy economics editor at the Telegraph. Prize-winning economic forecaster!

 South Londoner/North Englander
telegraph.co.uk/authors/tim-wallace/
Joined October 2009
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Their after school menu is great value. If the ONS used that for the inflation basket, our problems would be over xitter.cf/NewStatesman/status/21…
The New Statesman
@NewStatesmanOct 11
“People can’t afford treats anymore” Anoosh Chakelian says the most striking thing about the Labour conference was the price of her meal at Pizza Express.
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Mark Wallace
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Very proud of my mum, who has won re-election for the second time as an independent councillor in North Tyneside. No party machine, just really hard work on behalf of her residents year-round - as seen in the fact that her vote and % share went up despite more parties standing.
Austen Shakespeare@AustenShakespe4May 8
St Mary’s: •Janet Elizabeth Appleby (LD): 135 •Joanne Beynon (GRN): 393 •Naysin Maria Lambert (REF): 801 •George Partis (CON): 1,207 •Jack Lee Proud (LAB): 729 •Judith Wallace (IND): 1,507 Independent hold
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🇬🇧 Energy bills did not used to be cripplingly high. Houses did not used to be this expensive. Childcare used to be more financially manageable. So when did life in Britain become so unaffordable? @Tim_Wallace explains here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Robert Colvile@rcolvileFeb 12
Good piece by @Tim_Wallace on how government has been driving up Britain's prices (quoting me on housing) telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Why is the electorate so boiling with rage at the political class? This line from @szupingc and @Tim_Wallace's piece on the new economic forecasts feels like a key reason. "By the end of this decade, workers’ real-terms hourly pay – adjusted for inflation – will still be 0.5% below its 2009-10 level. That’s more than two lost decades of growth."
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💸 "Even a bond market-friendly Budget may not be enough to save the Chancellor" Could Rachel Reeves' budget be her last? The Chancellor’s challenge is to satisfy both the bond market and Labour backbenchers @Tim_Wallace reports 👇
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I’d prescribe a strong scotch after reading this. I’d not heard before the idea that we are not so much an emerging economy as a submerging one..
Jagjit S. Chadha
@jagjit_chadha19 Oct 2025
There is a rather wretched feeling about the UK economy. Good to chat with @szupingc and @Tim_Wallace. But you may need a strong coffee before reading the piece. We desperately need a plan...please. @CamEcon @MMF_research @econromesh @AntonMuscatelli telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

‘This is not a blip’: Markets punish Britain for losing its way

Steep borrowing costs that would once have seemed laughable are now bleak reality for the UK

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There is a rather wretched feeling about the UK economy. Good to chat with @szupingc and @Tim_Wallace. But you may need a strong coffee before reading the piece. We desperately need a plan...please. @CamEcon @MMF_research @econromesh @AntonMuscatelli telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

‘This is not a blip’: Markets punish Britain for losing its way

Steep borrowing costs that would once have seemed laughable are now bleak reality for the UK

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Cut CPRE off from the water mains.
Oxford Clarion@OxfordClarion23 Jul 2025
A bid to derail Thames Water’s planned Abingdon Reservoir has been rejected by the High Court. CPRE Oxfordshire and campaign group Safer Waters had argued that Secretary of State for the Environment, Steve Reed, acted unlawfully in not calling a public inquiry.
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🔴 Here's everything you need to know about Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement
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This log was taped off in case anyone wanted to sit on it xitter.cf/BBCNews/status/1898447…
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews8 Mar 2025
Share your memories of lockdown as UK set to mark Covid day of reflection bbc.in/41Np1V8

Covid day of reflection in UK marks fifth anniversary since pandemic

Locally organised events took place across the UK, marking five years since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

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After a thousand years of rivalry, we have the first conclusive proof French civilisation might really be superior to ours bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9…

Man fined for loudspeaker call at French station

The outraged passenger hires a lawyer to dispute the fine over a public phone call in Nantes.

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Keir Starmer looking chiselled at Hever Castle
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James
@TypeForVictory25 Jun 2024
The govt actually have commissioned and funded six new prisons, but guess what? Planning appeals and badgers have prevented us actually building them. We have legalised crime to avoid upsetting NIMBYs.
Sima Kotecha@sima_kotecha25 Jun 2024
Replying to @sima_kotecha
Senior source tells me “situation is catastrophic. Of all problems facing incoming govt, this one is biggest. Red light is flashing”. Details here: bbc.com/news/articles/cx777w…

Jails to run out of space in days, governors warn

The police will be unable to detain people, putting the public at risk, the Prison Governors’ Association warns.

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Bloomberg
@business15 May 2024
YouTube blocked videos of a Hong Kong protest song in the city, days after a local court approved an injunction order to ban it trib.al/Rz4ufVB
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It marks what now? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgr…
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What a treat for them! Basically a free trip to Santa's Grotto. xitter.cf/DominicWaghorn/status/…
Dominic Waghorn@DominicWaghorn28 Nov 2023
Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar met with the Israeli hostages a day after they were taken in tunnels under Gaza and told them they would not be harmed and would be returned as part of a hostage deal. Undermines the Israeli Hamas = ISIS storyline.
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V g piece from @Tim_Wallace & @szupingc on the monstrous scale of our borrowing bills and the huge pressure that puts on the Treasury, now and in the future. Also some top-notch talking heads, inc Rachel Reeves, Fiscal Phil and um me telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

The £100bn problem haunting the election

Britain’s unavoidable burden forces hard choices on both sides of the political spectrum

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Spoke to the developer whose plan for a £2.5bn data centre on the edge of the M25 was blocked by planning laws last week: "It’s an illustration of the death grip that green belt policy has on growth in this country." telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Finchley Road. Poster of two kidnapped Jewish children. Someone’s drawn a Hitler moustache on them. This is what the Jewish community is facing. Not in 1936. In 2023. Here. In London
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