Households feel the pinch
Consumer price inflation was 4.0 per cent in March, according to the latest figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics.
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Election 2011: Plaid Cymru outline vision for Wales
Nerys Evans, Plaid Cymru candidate in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire and the party’s Director of Policy, sets out Plaid’s vision for Wales as the launch their 2011 Assembly elections manifesto.
IFS: Govt. claim 80% will be better off is misleading
The IFS has disputed Danny Alexander’s claim that 80 per cent of families will be “better off” as a result of the tax and benefit changes coming into force today.
Economic update – April 2011
Tony Dolphin looks at the key economic indicators and reviews the state of the UK economy in his latest economic update for Left Foot Forward.
OECD’s inconvenient truth for right-wing ‘Rally Against Debt’
A new report by the OECD out today contains a key graph that won’t please the Rally Against Debt brigade, writes Left Foot Forward’s Will Straw.
Osborne needs to set clear objectives that meet real social needs
we need to recognise that driving industrial transformation is about more than vaguely demanding GDP growth, but of setting clear objectives that meet real social needs, writes James Meadway of the new economics foundation.
Economic challenges could be helped through collective bargaining
Britain’s two main economic challenges – industry revitalisation and boosting consumer spending – could be helped through a greater role for collective bargaining, writes Chris Wright.
Osborne now faces credit rating crisis
Ben Fox reports on Mr Osborne’s dangerous economic policies that could drive us into a credit rating crisis.
At home and abroad, the right have no plan for growth
Wayne David MP, shadow Europe minister, and Glenis Willmott MEP, Labour’s leader in the European Parliament, on how the right, across Europe, have no plan for growth.
Budget 2011: Reaction across the nations
Left Foot Forward’s Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to the budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.