The SNP one-ups Osborne on infrastructure investment
Ed Jacobs writes about the Scottish infrastructure investment plan, announced mere days after the Conservative one.
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A new strategy to help save UK manufacturing
Unite has launched a new strategy to help save UK manufacturing, writes Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke.
Osborne is perilously close to failing to cut borrowing at all
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.
Devolved nations recoil from autumn statement
Ed Jacobs gives the round-up of how the devolved nations reacted to Osborne’s autumn statement
OBR confirm Osborne will borrow more than the Darling projection
In his Autumn statement, George Osborne confirmed that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now projects that the government will borrow more than Alistair Darling was projected to at the time of the last election. This puts the OBR intest
Kellner: The public don’t like the Tories, but they’ve signed up to their economic argument
Daniel Elton covers the latest data from YouGov and finds that unpopular as they may be, the Tories rhetoric on the economy still rules the roost.
Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast at panic stations as Westminster enters crunch week
Ed Jacobs runs through the press reaction in the devolved nations to the crunch week ahead for the British economy.
Miliband attacks Osborne’s “dangerous gamble” and “catastrophic mistakes” on economy
Speaking ahead of George Osborne’s autumn statement, Ed Miliband launched a scathing attack on the chancellor’s economic record, competency and strategy today.
We’ve got the wrong sort of growth – a fall in real GDP now looks more likely
The outlook for the final quarter of the year is gloomy; a fall in real GDP now looks the most likely outcome, writes IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin.
Osborne should change course next Tuesday, but he won’t
Those hoping for a change of course when the chancellor delivers his Autumn Statement will be disappointed, write IPPR’s Tony Dolphin and Adam Lent.