The Lib Dem leader’s speech yesterday was notable for its attacks on Osborne’s fiscal plan. Could next year’s Budget be the time for a split?
As the Greek proverb has it: “a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Ultra low interest rates aren’t just bad for savers
They include Andrew Feldman, whom, one minister told me, ought to be recognised as “one of the five most important Tories in the country.”
Why should the ministers and senior civil servants responsible for the ruin of nations be able to get away it?
Eds Miliband and Balls are straining to point out how Osborne’s fiscal plan has gone off course – but so did New Labour’s, in the good times.
More tax, more complexity – the Opposition has learned nothing.
A return to higher interest rates is imperative for fiscal prudence and for Britain to live within its means.
Neither George Osborne nor his enemies have an explanation for Britain’s missing productivity
Why are so many well-paid, property-owning married couples living in such a state of financial insecurity?
A graduate tax could provide a future Labour Government with an undercover means of increasing income tax
Over-regulation doesn’t always cripple an industry… when the type of product in question is an essential one, it isn’t the producer that loses out, but the consumer
Without going beyond purely material considerations, “stuff” is not the same thing as wealth
The scale of the national debt shows that politicians cannot be trusted to deal responsibly with the public finances.
Voters should remember the damage that the Blair and Brown-led governments are responsible for.