Growth is being driven by consumer credit and household debt, despite the need for exports and manufacturing
The Tories have clearly not learned the lesson of the last two decades.
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Today’s news on payday lending is welcome, but enforcement matters as much as legislation
The campaign to tackle the payday lending sector has been gifted another small victory today as the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills publishes a report calling for more focussed regulatory attention to the sector.
The Tory sleight of hand over ‘1.1 million more’ private sector jobs
Just under a fifth of the coalition’s ‘million new jobs’ are the result of the reclasification of further education and sixth form college teachers as private sector employees.
Despite welcome news on unemployment, pay and productivity are stagnating
Despite today’s welcome news on falling unemployment, pay and productivity are stagnating.
UK government begs financial sector to lobby against controls on food speculation
The UK government is encouraging finance companies to lobby against proposed EU regulation on food speculation.
Unemployment down 99,000 to 2.39 million
Unemployment decreased by 99,000 between August 2013 and October 2013 to 2.39 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.4 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
The unbanked are increasingly excluded from mainstream society
In the UK 12 per cent of people do not have access to a bank account.
Tax cuts and parking reviews will not save the high street
In order to support the High Street, government needs to drop its obsessive focus on it.
Help to Buy risks ‘detonating a bomb under the British economy’, says Cameron housing advisor
George Osborne’s flagship Help to Buy housing scheme is dangerous and risks “detonating a bomb under the British economy”, David Cameron’s new housing advisor has said.
Philip Hammond claims living standards are rising. Backs up the claim with…nothing
Defence secretary Philip Hammond was on the Daily Politics today and made a startling claim: that living standards are starting to rise again.