More spending cuts on the way if coalition is to meet savings targets
If the coalition is to meet its spending targets it will have to make further cuts to departmental budgets.
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Why are British workers getting less productive?
The IFS produced a new report today examining why British workers are getting less productive.
Watch: Miliband flays Cameron on the economy at PMQs
Following Friday’s poor growth figures, Ed Miliband went after David Cameron on his failing economic record at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
Clegg wrong to claim Labour would have cut capital investment at same rate as government
OBR figures show Nick Clegg was wrong to claim Labour would have cut capital investment at the same rate as the government.
Osborne: Blames the snow and eurozone when growth is down, takes the credit when it’s up
Chancellor George Osborne is the ultimate political swindler, taking credit for when the GDP figures are good, not taking the blame when they’re bad.
Labour and Lib Dems could benefit from Boris’s airports fetish
John Stewart, chair of AirportWatch, writes about the potential electoral consequences of Boris Johnson’s lust for more airports and runways in the South East.
This depression is the longest in modern history, so why is the economy still creating jobs?
With today’s GDP figures confirming this is the longest depression in modern UK history, IPPR’s Spencer Thompson asks why the economy is still creating jobs.
GDP down 0.3% – economy flatlines through 2012
Gross Domestic Product shrank 0.3 per cent in the final quarter of 2012 – with the economy flatlining through the whole of 2012.
Borrowing is rising after all
Latest figures show borrowing is continuing to rise.
Long-term unemployment: The national emergency that refuses to go away
IPPR’s Spencer Thompson looks at solutions to the scourge of long-term unemployment.