Ed Balls
Calls for Holyrood reform, as ‘no to independence’ campaign gets serious
Scotland’s Cabinet secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy, Bruce Crawford has called for reforms to the way Holyrood operates.
OECD chief economist tells Osborne: “Slow down the pace of spending cuts”
The deputy secretary general and chief economist of the OECD, Pier Carlo Padoan, tells UK chancellor George Osborne to "slow down the pace of spending cuts".
Balls: “Cutting too far and too fast creates a vicious circle”
Ed Balls has called the government's private sector job creation policy a "total flop" - with the £1 billion 'National Insurance holiday' announced by George Osborne in his inaugural budget last June creating just 6,000 jobs.
Matt Hancock is drawing the wrong lessons from America
Former adviser to chancellor George Osborne, Tory MP Matthew Hancock, has made a massive error in his analysis of the American economy, writes Duncan Weldon.
A thousand economists agree on something – the Robin Hood Tax
Dominic Browne reports on the thousand economists who have voiced their support for the robin hood tax to the G20 finance ministers.
Balls: “Rock and roll” time for tax avoiders
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, speaking at the Unions 21 conference this morning, said that George Osborne’s cuts could spell a “rock and roll” period for tax avoidance, reports Dominic Browne.