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Posts Tagged: Alistair Darling

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 3) The party’s £20 billion of NHS “cuts” – as it likes to call them

These savings were desperately needed to make Darling’s books balance. They were put in Labour’s 2010 manifesto.

By Phil Taylor | 7 May 2020 | 8 comments

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 2) How Darling planned to cut capital spending by more than half

His cuts were so shocking that, in his own Budget speech in June 2010, George Osborne said that there would be no further such reductions.

By Phil Taylor | 6 May 2020 | 6 comments

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 1) How Brown’s Government planned £94 billion of cuts

As the tenth anniversary of the 2010 election approaches, the author says that Labour’s own austerity record and plans were almost as tough as the Coalition’s.

By Phil Taylor | 5 May 2020 | 38 comments

Hammond’s seriousness, professionalism and – yes – dullness make Labour look lightweight

It is not that he dares to be dull, but that he cannot help being so. He has prudently turned it to his advantage.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 March 2018 | 76 comments

Book review: Gordon Brown has learned nothing and forgotten quite a bit

He never resolved his conflict between being brought up to repress his emotions and as a politician having to express them.

By Andrew Gimson | 18 November 2017 | 40 comments

Profile: David Gauke, today defending Universal Credit…later to be uncorked as Chancellor?

“He is the Red Adair of the administration – the middle-order batsman who, if the openers are out cheaply, ensures that the middle order does not collapse.”

By Andrew Gimson | 18 October 2017 | 66 comments

Our survey. Over half Tory member respondents back Hammond’s deficit reduction timetable. Almost one in three want it speeded up.

If our survey’s findings are representative, this majority either agrees with the Chancellor or is in unity mode or both.

By Paul Goodman | 7 March 2017 | 29 comments

Cameron Penny: Ministers should announce that they plan to use anti-terror laws to proscribe Aslef and the RMT

We don’t need more laws with anti-strike provisions – the Government already has the tools to deal with the transport crisis.

By Cameron Penny | 10 January 2017 | 111 comments

Daniel Bentley: Is Javid really prepared to get enough homes built?

The May government has so far set its sights no higher than its predecessor. Its aim remains Cameron’s – to build a one million homes during this parliament.

By Daniel Bentley | 16 October 2016 | 16 comments

Howard Flight: Conundrums of economic policy in the wake of Brexit

Overall, my advice is not to seek to reduce interest rates yet further which could have contrarian effects.

By Lord Flight | 1 August 2016 | 10 comments

Profile: the Resolution Foundation, suddenly in high demand as a critic of tax credit cuts

Led by former Treasury officials, this think tank has placed itself at the heart of the argument about how to help the low-paid.

By Andrew Gimson | 29 October 2015 | 5 comments

Please stop pretending the bank bailout made a profit for taxpayers

Brown and Darling began this fantastical claim. A Tory government should not perpetuate it.

By Mark Wallace | 11 June 2015 | 26 comments

Dugdale is right to reject a separate Scottish Labour Party

All a unionist party does by dissolving its British connections is signal to the electorate that the SNP are right.

By Henry Hill | 8 June 2015 | 29 comments

Anthony Calvert: My opponent, Mary Creagh. A symbol of the damage that political correctness has wreaked on Labour

Twenty years at Harriet Harman’s high altar of all women shortlists and selection quotas are duly delivering their reward – for the Conservatives.

By Antony Calvert | 30 May 2015 | 123 comments

Matthew Elliott: Ten lessons from the Scottish Referendum for people involved in the EU debate

Voters must be presented with a genuine, informed choice when they are finally given a chance to vote on Britain’s relationship with Europe.

By Matthew Elliott | 22 September 2014 | 33 comments

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