Osborne now faces credit rating crisis
Ben Fox reports on Mr Osborne’s dangerous economic policies that could drive us into a credit rating crisis.
Green Politics
At home and abroad, the right have no plan for growth
Wayne David MP, shadow Europe minister, and Glenis Willmott MEP, Labour’s leader in the European Parliament, on how the right, across Europe, have no plan for growth.
Budget 2011: Distributional analysis of coalition’s major tax changes
In the wake of yesterday’s Budget, Tim Horton and Howard Reed present an updated distributional analysis of the effects of the coalition’s major direct and indirect tax changes.
Budget 2011: Planning changes: A hidden job killer?
Ed Turner, lecturer in politics at the Aston Centre for Europe, and deputy leader of Oxford City Council, looks at the impact of the changes to planning announced in yesterday’s budget.
Budget 2011: Reaction across the nations
Left Foot Forward’s Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to the budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Budget 2011: Reaction from the press
Shamik Das rounds up the best budget analysis and commentary in today’s papers.
Budget 2011: Reaction from the web
Dominc Browne rounds up the best web reaction to today’s budget.
Budget 2011: Osborne the Clarksonesque showman
Mr Osborne has missed a golden opportunity to invest the £2 billion from the oil companies in providing alternatives to car travel; people are now being encouraged to drive in a 1970s dream that could soon evaporate with a change in the price of oil, writes Eleanor Besley.
Budget 2011: Impact on jobs
The budget had very little to say about employment and unemployment, reports Richard Exell.
Budget 2011: More proof we aren’t “all in this together”
Today the chancellor made it quite clear, for anyone still unsure, that we are not ‘all in this together’ as he announced even bigger tax breaks for business than already planned.