Only a Conservative government will save Britain from a borrowing crisis, says George Osborne (BUT HOW?)
Image from Tory campaign stunt at Battersea Power Station. George Osborne has written for The Telegraph today and has warned… Read more »
Tax and spending
Chris Grayling will strengthen legal rights of householders to defend their property and families from intruders
The case of Munir Hussain has shocked the nation this last week and brought fresh attention to the fears of… Read more »
George Osborne demands truth from Darling over national debt and spending projections
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne is tonight challenging Alistair Darling to come clean over the full extent of the nation's debt…. Read more »
How should the Conservatives counter Labour’s ‘Tories will increase VAT and cut inheritance tax’ attack?
A Tory poster from last year. Labour's fightback strategy becomes clearer by the day. We already have seen Team Brown… Read more »
‘Green Boris’ says Darling’s supertax on bankers is unlikely to work
Speaking on Andrew Marr this morning, Boris Johnson said that he doubted that Alistair Darling's supertax on bankers' bonuses could… Read more »
David Cameron compares Brown and Darling to joy-riders smashing up the (economic) neighbourhood
David Cameron has today launched one of his most hard-hitting attacks yet on the Government, comparing Gordon Brown and Alistair… Read more »
The Tory Day Two attack on the Pre-Budget Report focuses on NHS cuts and a cynical (temporary) increase in benefits
Last night we noted the new poster the party has unveiled, depicting the PBR as an attack on anyone earning… Read more »
How many ducks did you spot?
George Osborne got it right. This was the pre-election report of a government ducking the hard choices. Over the next… Read more »
Responding to PBR, George Osborne says the greatest golden rule is you can never trust Labour with the economy
Highlights, not verbatim: Labour has ducked the big choices. They won't tell people how they'll balance the books before the… Read more »
Darling raises National Insurance by another 0.5%, announces £0.5bn tax on bank bonuses and forecasts £178bn deficit for this year
Highlights, not verbatim: 1.18pm: The choice for Britain is between continuing recovery and wrecking recovery. 1.17pm: Guaranteed real increases in… Read more »
Tories project £5,500 per second debt clock on to Battersea Power Station
If the Jedward poster was juvenile this CCHQ stunt deserves top marks:
Independent waste watchdog will pounce on suspected inefficiencies under a Tory government
Further to my earlier report on George Osborne’s plans to introduce financial incentives for civil servants to save money, the… Read more »
George Osborne and Francis Maude promise rewards to money-saving civil servants
The Telegraph and Daily Mail report that the next Conservative government will "rewrite civil service contracts to include a new… Read more »
£1m is just “small beer” for Labour
Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has rightly leapt on a remark made by Alan Johnson on this morning’s Today programme…. Read more »
Cameron and Osborne are close to a winning economic message (and a project for government)
On Coffee House yesterday Fraser Nelson was marvelling at the size of Barack’s. Much bigger than Gordon’s. Even Angela Merkel… Read more »