Osborne’s economic policy is to stick his head in the sand
Emily Thomas explains why the government’s continued reticence to ‘lend’ money is deeply worrying for the UK’s economic recovery.
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Devolved nations call on Whitehall to create jobs
Today’s disastrous unemployment figures have been greeted with a sense of shock and deep concern across the devolved nations, reports Ed Jacobs.
Unemployment hits 17-year high – record number of young people out of work
Unemployment in the UK is at its highest for 17 years, the unemployment rate is the highest for 15 years, and youth unemployment is at a record high.
Commons to vote today on Labour’s five-point plan for jobs
While the Lords votes on the NHS reforms, Labour will use an Opposition Day Debate in the Commons to debate the economy, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
The coalition has flunked preparations for this banking crisis
Cormac Hollingsworth explains the coalition’s under-preparation with regards to the new global financial crisis
Will quantitative easing work this time?
George Irvin runs the rule over the aims of the latest round of quantitative easing, and asks whether it will work for a second time.
Economic update – October 2011
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.
One-club Osborne drives economy further into the rough
William Bain MP (Labour, Glasgow North East) is the shadow food, farming and fisheries minister, and contributor to “What Next for Labour? Ideas for a New Generation” It is often claimed that George Osborne views himself as a latter-day Nigeltest
Osborne: Speaking truth to wealth and power? Really?
George Osborne vowed “to speak truth to power and wealth” at the Tory party conference this week – but dare he speak economic truth to the rest of us?
Cameron’s recycled rhetoric on benefit claimants
Reports the government will tighten up benefit rules to make people do more to look for work recycle previous Labour policy and miss the point, writes Stephen Evans.