In today’s Daily Telegraph, former Chancellor Norman Lamont trots out the normal Conservative lines about “Labour’s legacy of borrowing” and Gordon Brown’s “spending addiction”. Putting aside his own record of raising debt, he goes on to claim that Britain wastest
The Guardian, Financial Times and Independent devote their front pages on the “backlash” that will follow George Osborne’s first Budget tomorrow. The Guardian says “Osborne said he had designed the budget to ensure that everyone played their part in tacklingtest
The Government wants taxation to contribute just a 1/5 to deficit reduction. A range of think tanks and The Economist are advising them to focus more on taxes.
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. The front pages of the Guardian and Times examine the new spending cuts announced yesterday by Chief Secretary Danny Alexander. According to the Guardian, the coalition government scrapped £2test
If Reform’s programme were implemented it would see government spending fall to 38.7 per cent – lower than under any Conservative government since the 1960s.
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. The Guardian reports that Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, has vowed to back industrial action to fight the coming spending cuts. He said if Nick Clegg, who criticisedtest
David Miliband has today backed calls for a High Pay Commission. He becomes the third leadership candidate to do so after his brother, Ed, and Diane Abbott.
As noted in our Politics Summary, George Osborne is taking a bit of a kicking today over his pre-election claims that Britain was risking a “Greek tragedy”…
I just got sent a press release from the OECD on “The future of news and the Internet” which contains this fascinating graph showing estimated newspaper publishing market decline…
In the March Budget, Labour set out plans to cut public spending by £38 billion. The OBR’s report today provides no justification to go any further next week.
