Lord Flight: Looking back at the Autumn Statement

The extent to which EU requirements and directives are now actively damaging our economy and frustrating our ability to put things right is noteworthy.

David Gauke MP: On the deficit and productivity, Labour have nothing to say

Addressing productivity levels requires long term policies such as those announced by George Osborne in the Autumn Statement.

Our panel reviews the Autumn Statement

Jonathan Algar, Antonia Cox, Nick Faith, Peter Franklin, David Green, Peter Hoskin, Andrea Leadsom MP, Andrew Lilico and Simon Richards assess the Chancellor’s work.

We ask our panel: What do you want to see in Osborne’s Autumn Statement?

Johnathan Algar, Antonia Cox, Nick Faith, Peter Franklin, David Green, Peter Hoskin, Andrew Lilico, Andrea Leadsom MP and Simon Richards give their views.

WATCH: George Osborne speaks to Andrew Marr about energy bills, growth and housing bubbles

“There are going to have to be more difficult decisions” in the Autumn Statement, he reports.

Lord Flight: We need a recovery based on savings, investment and exports – not consumption

The post-2010 Government will need to take major and radical decisions and actions to get the balance of the UK economy right.

Ryan Bourne: The OBR should not audit manifestos of political parties

Not only would it be another burden on the taxpayer, it wouldn’t add anything of use to the public debate.

If 16- and 17-year-olds get the vote, might they vote Tory?

Newsnight’s focus group showed hawkish instincts on welfare spending among the young.

Ed Balls pledges yet more spending – funded with cash he’s already promised to use on ten other things

Watching Ed Balls talk about money being tight is like watching Tiger Woods speak about the importance of marriage. Not content with wrecking the nation’s public finances, his new policy is funded by money he’s already spent ten times over.

Steve Baker MP: Bailouts are a dead end but bilateral debt cancellation could transform the European crisis

Last time the Commons debated financial stability in Europe, I quoted that great French liberal political economist Bastiat; in his essay,… Read more »