deficit
Birmingham’s widening “jaws of doom”
Birmingham's Labour-run council is facing a £625 million deficit by 2016/2017. Budget cuts of up to 50% are planned. What public services will survive?
IMF reassessment a massive boost for Ed Balls’s 5-point plan for growth
Last night's IMF reassessment on the UK economy is a massive boost for Ed Balls’s 5-point plan for growth, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
OBR figures show a long term fiscal challenge that needs long term solutions
Projections released by the OBR today reveal the full scale of the long term fiscal challenge facing the UK
Balls calls for “three more u-turns” – on a bankers’ bonus tax, 50p and the ‘granny tax’
As the Finance Bill reaches its final stages in the Commons today, Ed Balls has called on George Osborne to u-turn on bonuses, the 50p cut and the ‘granny tax’.
Krugman: Government deficits are a consequence of the crisis, not a cause
This country is relying too heavily on pre-crisis policy ideas that have since been disproved.
IDS blames deficit on child poverty target
This morning on the Today Programme, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the deficit on “chasing” child poverty targets.