Osborne has no reason to be smug: Britons are suffering an economic hangover
Debt has soared under the coalition – how will the chancellor spin that to his followers?
George Osborne
IFS chief agrees with Labour: a Tory government could make £70 billion in public spending cuts
The independent think tank has backed Ed Balls’ claim that the Conservatives are planning £70 billion worth of public spending cuts
The coalition facilitated the rise of mass poverty
George Osborne may be a bad chancellor but he’s a good right-wing ideologue
Committee finds Osborne fabricated claims of EU budget reduction
The chancellor is accused of over-hyping his own contribution to the budget reduction
Years of low earnings growth have hurt public finances
Taking a longer view, public finances have diverged considerably from government expectations
Five ways the coalition has failed business
Despite attempts to portray Labour as hostile to business, the coalition has notched up its own failures
Household debt to grow nearly three times faster than wages under Osborne’s plans
By 2019 total UK household debt will be 182 per cent of household income
Memo to the BBC: wealth is created by workers as well as ‘captains of industry’
The PM is calling on bosses to give workers a pay rise while making it harder for workers to actually win things like pay increases
UK government planning biggest fiscal consolidation of 32 advanced economies, says IFS
If Osborne’s new plans to meet fiscal targets were to be implemented, public spending would hit lowest level since 1948
David Cameron’s latest tax announcement: not new and certainly not progressive
Struggling households won’t benefit from Cameron’s latest announcement – and he’s made it before