As fuel duty cut is wiped out, calls grow to wean nation off oil
George Osborne’s much heralded penny cut in fuel has already been wiped out by rising oil prices – less than two weeks on from the announcement, reports Shamik Das.
Budget 2011
Corp Tax cut cheerleaders WPP move headlines, not jobs to UK
It turns out that there’s less than meets the eye – for jobs and tax take – to WPP’s much trumpeted possible move to the UK following the annouced corp tax cut.
Budget polls: What The Sun “forgot” to tell you
Rupert Murdoch’s Sun, revelling in the success of its own campaigning on the budget, didn’t want the latest YouGov polling analysis to take the shine off.
Budget 2011: Distributional analysis of coalition’s major tax changes
In the wake of yesterday’s Budget, Tim Horton and Howard Reed present an updated distributional analysis of the effects of the coalition’s major direct and indirect tax changes.
Budget 2011: Planning changes: A hidden job killer?
Ed Turner, lecturer in politics at the Aston Centre for Europe, and deputy leader of Oxford City Council, looks at the impact of the changes to planning announced in yesterday’s budget.
Budget 2011: Reaction across the nations
Left Foot Forward’s Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to the budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Budget 2011: Reaction from the press
Shamik Das rounds up the best budget analysis and commentary in today’s papers.
Budget 2011: Reaction from the web
Dominc Browne rounds up the best web reaction to today’s budget.
Budget 2011: Osborne the Clarksonesque showman
Mr Osborne has missed a golden opportunity to invest the £2 billion from the oil companies in providing alternatives to car travel; people are now being encouraged to drive in a 1970s dream that could soon evaporate with a change in the price of oil, writes Eleanor Besley.
Budget 2011: Impact on jobs
The budget had very little to say about employment and unemployment, reports Richard Exell.