While chancellor George Osborne’s Budget yesterday had a strong housing focus, which was welcomed in housing circles, the announcements failed miserably in the face of a growing UK housing crisis.
While statistics show economic growth, people’s day to day experience is of cuts to services, fare increases and deteriorating infrastructure.
This was a Budget that delivered rising living standards to those who are already well off.
Here are the twelve (not-so-green) faces of the chancellor and his latest Budget.
The energy package today should be welcomed even if the chancellor is just unwinding his own flawed policy.
George Osborne still has no serious strategy for balanced growth.
If we look at the small print of the OBR document (table 1.5), it actually says that GDP per capita is not expected to return to its pre-recession peak until 2017.
The winnders and losers from today’s Budget.
Ahead of today’s budget, the Welsh government has called on the chancellor to encourage and support investment in vital infrastructure projects.
Unemployment decreased by 63,000 between November 2013 and January 2014 to 2.33 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.2 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
