Budget 2013
Budget 2013: Immigration ought to be encouraged to support economic growth – but don’t hold your breath
Across the country the very firms which are supposed to be seizing opportunities to return the economy to growth are encountering the tangle of immigration regulations which obstruct a significant part of their business plans to win export orders and expand into new markets.
Britain’s economic model is deeply flawed, but the government is doing nothing
One of the fundamental faultlines of the British model of finance capitalism - its failure to steer resources into the real, productive base of the economy - is not even on the government’s agenda. That's why the prospect of sustained recovery is proving so elusive.
The financial sector caused the largest crisis of a generation. No amount of spare bedroom taxes will put that right
The media is already occupied with pre-Budget clamour: what will Osborne's rabbit out the hat trick be this time round? But pasty taxes, bedroom taxes, even a mansion tax (which will raise around £2bn) can only be described as fiscal tinkering. What's needed is a bolder approach.
Budget 2013: What to look out for
Left Foot Forward has looked at a few things we already know will be in next week's Budget as well as at those things which stand half a chance of making it.