IFS: Borrowing figures “an unpleasant feeling of déjà vu for Osborne”
The Institute for Fiscal Studies have said today’s public sector finance figures will result in a feeling of “déjà vu” for the chancellor.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies have said today’s public sector finance figures will result in a feeling of “déjà vu” for the chancellor.
Labour stepped up the pressure on David Cameron today with a new poster mocking his airbrushed pre-election pledge, and a new “Borrowing Counter” website.
Tony Burke examines the recent borrowing figures and the government’s failure to deliver its promise to control borrowing.
Tony Dolphin examines the small amount of comfort which George Osborne can take from the recent borrowing figures.
Watch Ed Miliband and David Cameron argue jobs, borrowing and “predistribution” at PMQs, 12th September 2012.
David Cameron and George Osborne are set to borrow double the figure Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were projected to.
Cormac Hollingworth explains to George Osborne how rising unemployment and recession are increasing the deficit, and how jobs and growth will cut it. Simples.
Cormac Hollingsworth reports on shadow chancellor Ed Balls’s op ed in today’s Times.
Leo Barasi examines whether the arguments that Labour can’t politically support deficit spending for growth hold up against the polling data.
Tuesday was an awful day for the government, but the prediction is for 2011-12 borrowing to still be lower than 2010-11, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.