What you need to know about Osborne’s working age benefit freeze
Your cut out and keep guide to today’sannouncement on freezing working age benefits.
George Osborne
George Osborne and a compendium of failure
Despite economic growth returning, the chancellor’s record is less rosy than he makes out.
Osborne plans to increase inequality in the UK
This is part of a plan to hit the poorest as hard as possible with benefit cuts whilst at the same time saying that if you can afford to save you need not pay tax at all.
IFS: Tories will need to put up taxes or make bigger spending cuts after election
The bombshell will come as a boost to Labour ahead of conference season.
The chancellor’s vision of a northern powerhouse is a world away from the Department for Transport’s cost-cutting agenda
The chancellor should use his Autumn Statement to set out firm plans for major investment in the north’s rail infrastructure.
The Tory tax bombshell that would clobber middle earners
A senior Tory at the heart of government policymaking has let slip that the Conservatives are considering a new tax plan which could hammer middle and low earners.
‘Are you better off than four years ago?’ Ed Balls channels Reagan to highlight biggest fall in earnings since 1874
This parliament will see the largest drop in average earnings after inflation since 1874-1880.
George Osborne: making failure look like success
Celebrating today’s GDP figures as a victory for the chancellor would be a like praising the punctuality of the chauffeur who arrives at his destination three hours late.
Online protest works: workfare firm pulls out after Twitter storm
A Bristol-based computer firm has pulled out of George Osborne’s Help to Work scheme after a backlash from welfare campaigners on social media.
Undercutting UK workers – Tory style
We don’t need secretive deals that bring in people through the back door and undercut the wages of UK-based workers.