9pm Columnist Andrew Lilico: The key table from the Autumn Statement
8.45pm WATCH: William Hague: We hold the Iranian Government responsible for failing to protect our embassy
8pm Nadine Dorries MP on Comment: More tax breaks for carers are needed to help improve childcare provision
6.30pm George Freeman MP on Comment: We need new models of funding for infrastructure to unlock new sources of finance and for growth
6.15pm ToryDiary: Reacting to storming of British Embassy in Iran, William Hague promises "consequences"
5pm: Today's teatime newslinks – George Osborne's Autumn Statement
3.45pm ThinkTankCentral: Reactions to Autumn Statement from ASI, IEA, TPA and Reform
3pm Columnist Andrew Lilico: Osborne's Autumn Statement is a message that he is going to miss his deficit reduction target
2.45pm ToryDiary: We needed Osborne to be Thatcher today, but he was Brown
2.15pm Michael Robb on Comment: Autumn Statement plays to the electoral base
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12.30pm ToryDiary: George Osborne's Autumn Statement announcements
Noon ToryDiary: Why this afternoon's autumn statement scarcely matters
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11am Local government: Labour councillors pledge to join picket lines
10am Margot James MP on Comment: What room does the UK have for improving the quality of public services in the present economic outlook?
10am WATCH: Cameron: "World AIDS Day is about reflection, action, and hope"
David Davis MP on Comment: The Government must go for growth: If it doesn’t take bold action, the economy will flounder
Local Government: Ending the "obsession with demoliton" of Prescott's Pathfinders
WATCH: Michael Gove calls on teachers to rethink strike plans
Osborne will announce more than 250,000 free nursery places in the Autumn Statement
"At present, all three and four-year-olds are entitled to 15 hours of nursery education for 38 weeks of the year. The new scheme, which is designed to appeal to women voters who may have felt neglected by the Coalition, will extend the entitlement to about 260,000 two year-olds. As well as helping mothers to return to work at least part-time, the move is aimed at narrowing Britain’s growing social divide" - Telegraph
The Chancellor will use the Autumn Statement today to declare that he is still on course to eliminate the deficit
"Osborne will move to reassure the markets that he remains in control of the British economy when he declares that he is still on course to eliminate the structural budget deficit after a projected £21.5bn fall in Britain's borrowing costs. He will hail the lower borrowing costs as a sign of how he has protected Britain from the global sovereign debt storm that is currently focused on the eurozone" - Guardian
Osborne's statement comes at a time when the OECD announces that weak growth has caused a £50billion black hole in the deficit reduction programme
"The collapse in growth will trigger a fresh surge in unemployment next year, now forecast to peak at 9.1pc in 2013 – far above the current 8.3pc and putting another 400,000 workers out of a job, on top of the 2.62m already unemployed. The bleak outlook threatens to overshadow the package of measures to help lift the economy George Osborne will unveil" - Telegraph
"The chancellor will have to confirm that the economy is well off course – that growth will be much lower and borrowing much higher than he planned. It won't matter that the forecasters and the pundits have long predicted this. The sight and sound of George Osborne reading out figures – described as "shocking" by some who've seen them – and the reaction of the House of Commons, will drive home to many people the sheer scale of the economic challenge the country now faces." – Nick Robinson
A £300million plus package of tax breaks will be announced by Osborne to stimulate investment in small businesses - Guardian
Proposals for an airport in the Thames Estuary will be among 40 new projects spelt out by the Chancellor today
"George Osborne will raise hopes of a new multi-runway airport in the Thames Estuary today when he commits the Government to a global hub in the South East. The proposal, championed by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and the architect Lord Foster of Thames Bank, will receive full consideration next year, the Chancellor will say, as he vows to lay the foundations for Britain’s future beyond the eurozone crisis" - Times (£)
Danny Alexander cancels plans to develop carbon capture technology in Scotland, diverting £1bn set aside to other projects - Times (£)
£50million is being offered by the Chancellor to save sleeper trains from London to Scotland - Guardian
Maria Miller MP will announce that the Government will reverse its decision to scrap the transport allowance for 80,000 people in residential homes - Times (£)
The state of polling on the economy
Research by Nicholas Watt suggests Osborne is viewed with suspicion by many Tory MPs, and admiration by others - Guardian
The real George Osborne – Andy Beckett's extended profile in The Guardian
What are Labour saying on the economy? What should they be saying?
The €urozone crisis has cost Britain up to £15billion, says Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King
"Sir Mervyn said: "Growth has been revised down by over one percentage point. The bulk of that can be attributed directly or indirectly to the changing in perception of the circumstances in the euro area – directly through exports from the UK to the eurozone, indirectly through lower asset prices and lower wealth and funding costs to our banks" - Telegraph
Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the TSC: King's comments "made clear that the bulk of loss of economic growth is attributable to eurozone instability. This reinforces the need to re-orientate exports away from a weak European market to stronger demand in emerging markets"- Telegraph
> Yesterday Columnist Anthony Browne: The financial transaction tax will be a tipping point for many British people
The underdogs in the pension debate are actually those who work in the private sector, says Dominic Lawson
"In fact, if there is a class divide within the employment market, the underdogs are definitely not the public sector. As the most recent official figures from the Office of National Statistics show, the median gross weekly pay in the private sector was £465, compared with £539 in the public sector. That growing gulf is a reflection of the fact that defined benefit pension plans are all but extinct in the private sector, but still available across the board in the public sector" - Independent
> Yesterday's ToryDiary: No Goldilocks moment as Government veers from appeasement to confrontation with unions
After a poll boost for Boris Johnson, Peter McKay says "Boris has the skills when it comes to sniffing out voter sentiment" - Daily Mail
Head of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, warns that the taxpayer will not save any money from the decision to scrap Britain's aircraft carriers - Times (£) I Guardian
Consumerism and police failures to blame for the Summer riots - Telegraph
Former Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain, has been warned by Police that his computer may have been hacked by private detectives - Guardian
John Bercow unveils his new coat of arms – including a ladder to represent his journey upwards, and pink triangles to promote the cause of gay rights - Guardian
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