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Britain is bottom of the G7’s growth league table. Excluding earthquake-hit Japan, Britain is growing more slowly than every other major developed economy.
Right-wingers claim that the Coalition has cut by a “smaller amount” than the US debt deal. The truth is that they are faster and deeper than anything in the Tea Party’s wildest dreams.
A new poll shows that just 25% of voters support the abolition of the 50p tax rate. Danny Alexander is on the right side of the argument.
Figures released today show that the Coalition’s flagship NICs holiday policy has flopped. It has helped just 5,000 businesses rather than the 400,000 originally suggested.
This morning’s growth figures show that the economy grew by just 0.2% in the Q2. Given that the economy flat-lined since September, it means growth has been anaemic for the last nine months.
Ministers are trying to claim that the eurozone is to blame for fragile growth. But it is falling consumption and poor investment that is the problem.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, has slammed the coalition’s £18 billion welfare cuts.
If the right were really worried about inflating public sector pay, they may want to start with the bonuses of the public sector banks
Criticism of Cameron’s relationship with News Int has moved to the Telegraph. This follows BBC reports that Tory MPs were “starting to talk about David Cameron’s future”.
