Balls throws down the gauntlet: “We are going to have to keep all these cuts”
Ed Balls seized the initiative on the economy last night by announcing Labour, if elected, couldn’t commit to reversing the coalition’s cuts, reports Shamik Das.
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We need to save manufacturing, but manufacturing won’t save us
Westminster fashionable talk dictates that we need to rebalance the economy towards manufacturing. But manufacturing is declining as a proportion of the world economy.
Employment agencies: Jobs picture is even worse than you might imagine
This month’s Report on Jobs tells two stories: the deepening of the ‘jobs recession’ and a downturn in temporary employment, reports Richard Exell.
“Delivering fairness in difficult times”: Miliband outlines the “new reality”
Ed Miliband will today warn only Labour can deliver fairness in straitened times, and that whoever wins the next election will have to deal with a big deficit.
Growth revision shows economic recovery is off track
Revisions to the national accounts data published by the ONS just before Christmas show economic recovery in the UK was stronger in 2010 than previously thought.
The billion-pound cost of badly-drafted green taxes
Alex Hern reveals the flaws of the EU’s emissions trading system, which has numerous provisions which cost billions and do nothing to reduce pollution.
A word for 2012: Liquidation
Just as deleveraging was the watchword for the first stage of the banking crisis, we are now seeing the roots of the second stage: Liquidation.
Preview 2012 – Northern Ireland
Left Foot Forward’s Ed Jacobs looks ahead to the political situation in Northern Ireland in 2012.
Preview 2012 – Wales
Left Foot Forward’s Ed Jacobs looks ahead to the political situation in Wales in 2012.
Preview 2012 – Scotland
Left Foot Forward’s Ed Jacobs looks ahead to the political situation in Scotland in 2012.