Balls repeats his conference message – but the circumstances have changed
Cormac Hollingsworth reports on shadow chancellor Ed Balls’s op ed in today’s Times.
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Immigration policy should support UK economic growth, not undermine it
This week the coalition government has new cause to regret strapping itself to a pledge of reducing net migration to the “tens of thousands” per year by 2015.
Economic update, December 2011 – UK teeters on brink of recession
IPPR’s senior economist Tony Dolphin looks at the key economic indicators and reviews the state of the economy in his latest economic update for Left Foot Forward.
The SNP one-ups Osborne on infrastructure investment
Ed Jacobs writes about the Scottish infrastructure investment plan, announced mere days after the Conservative one.
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.