Osborne’s policies are deliberately designed to shift money from the poorest to the richest
Research from LSE has found that the chancellor’s policies have seen the poorest five per cent lose income while the top one per cent have gained.
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Autumn Statement 2014: Osborne’s 2010 promises – shot to pieces
The promise that Osborne made in 2010 to ensure balanced growth in all parts of the country has gone the same way as his promise to balance the books.
Autumn Statement 2014: what you need to know
The key measures from today’s Autumn Statement.
Five things George Osborne won’t say in his Autumn Statement
We know most of what’s going to be in the Autumn Statement. But here’s what the chancellor won’t tell you today.
Autumn Statement: On offshore tax income at least, the chancellor gets it right
The government is making a sensible move in criminalising the failure to declare taxable offshore income.
We need an honest debate about debt reduction. But don’t expect it from George Osborne
The reduction of the national debt should be achieved over a generation – not a handful of years.
The figures that should worry Labour
Ed Balls’ task tomorrow will be to establish Labour as a party that can be trusted to get its hands back on the levers of power.
Five things to expect from the Autumn statement
Heroic announcements on public service spending cannot detract from the reality of our economic situation.
Ed Miliband: coalition is squeezing the middle not the deficit
Miliband will say that Britain needs a recovery for working people if the government is to ‘squeeze the deficit and not the middle’.
The EU CAP damages developing economies – and ours
We are still paying £11.3 billion a year to be part of a club which cuts the disposable income of the neediest in our society.