Budget 2014: The chancellor’s misguided belief in the economic power of road building has not gone away
While statistics show economic growth, people’s day to day experience is of cuts to services, fare increases and deteriorating infrastructure.
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Yesterday’s budget failed to deliver the help that the UK’s hard pressed households need
This was a Budget that delivered rising living standards to those who are already well off.
Budget 2014: The twelve (not-so-green) faces of George Osborne
Here are the twelve (not-so-green) faces of the chancellor and his latest Budget.
Osborne’s U-turn on the Carbon Price Floor is the right move but now we have a coal problem
The energy package today should be welcomed even if the chancellor is just unwinding his own flawed policy.
Another Tory budget that does nothing for the north
George Osborne still has no serious strategy for balanced growth.
Budget 2014: GDP per capita will not return to previous peak until 2017
If we look at the small print of the OBR document (table 1.5), it actually says that GDP per capita is not expected to return to its pre-recession peak until 2017.
Sharp rise in self-employment may be masking true extent of unemployment
Despite today’s fall in unemployment, there are still causes for concern in the labour market.
Budget 2014: Who is being hit hardest
The winnders and losers from today’s Budget.
Unemployment down 63,000 to 2.33 million
Unemployment decreased by 63,000 between November 2013 and January 2014 to 2.33 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.2 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
Budget 2014: Seven things you should expect today
What to expect when George Osborne is at the dispatch box today.