Your at-a-glance guide to the Budget’s economic and fiscal forecasts
Can’t be bothered to sift through the Budget and its supplementary documents? Here are six graphs for you.
Can’t be bothered to sift through the Budget and its supplementary documents? Here are six graphs for you.
The Chancellor has transformed over this Parliament, with a growing political focus on ordinary working people.
The key moment was his Autumn Statement of 2012 – in which he determined not to reduce the growth in spending further to try to hit his debt target.
An explicit pledge on airports expansion would reaffirm the Conservatives as being a pro-business, pro-growth party that is serious about the national interest.
We need to devolve to the cities and shires alike.
We can all understand his reasons for refusing such a challenge – but the arguments available to the Prime Minister are strong.
I believe we’ll win. But I could be wrong. So all this could be only a few weeks away…
The most straight forward way to achieve a Living Income for everyone would be to align the Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds with the Minimum Wage.
Yesterday’s employment figures confirmed a new balance in our labour market.
Departments cut their resource budgets faster than originally planned, and have had bigger capital budgets. Politics is part of the reason why.
Total departmental spending has declined by about 13 per cent. But in some departments it’s been cut by much more.
The Chancellor was appearing on the Marr Show. Watch the full interview here.
“Bill somebody’s not a person: bill somebody’s Labour’s policy”.
To Hungary and Cyprus, Putin appears to have added a third, slightly less marginal, ally – Greece. Will Spain be next?
I am critical of some measures which the Government has taken to accommodate some of Labour’s class warfare propaganda.