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.
Reform of the energy market must go beyond clamping down on misselling to injecting real competition, writes shadow energy minister Huw Irranca-Davies MP.
Vince Cable may lash out at the debt ceiling “nutters” in the US, but their fellow adherents to ideological purity on the Tory backbenches are out in force.
A recent IPPR report on the US green jobs agenda suggests Chris Hunhne’s “250,000 green jobs” pledge could be far harder to achieve than the government expects.
The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data indicates youth unemployment continues to be a cause for concern, writes the TUC’s Richard Exell.
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.
Those hoping the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis would finally be resolved today will be disappointed, reports Left Foot Forward’s Ben Fox from Brussels.
The latest employment figures show Wales has been the worst hit by the recession, while growth in Scotland is stagnating, reports Ed Jacobs.
While a ‘bank levy’ scheme may be approved today, EU ministers will once again have failed to address the longer term questions on which the euro’s future rests.
George Osborne’s lack of a growth strategy could easily undermine his deficit reduction plans, writes Duncan Weldon.
