George Osborne
Osborne’s false dichotomy: ‘people who work and pay taxes’ and those on welfare
Benefits are often an essential subsidy to low wages rather than an alternative to work.
Means-testing pensioner entitlements: good economics, bad politics
Taking away the entitlements of wealthy pensioners may be good economics, but it would be incredibly risky for the Tory party.
Growth is being driven by consumer credit and household debt, despite the need for exports and manufacturing
The Tories have clearly not learned the lesson of the last two decades.
Help to Buy risks ‘detonating a bomb under the British economy’, says Cameron housing advisor
George Osborne's flagship Help to Buy housing scheme is dangerous and risks "detonating a bomb under the British economy", David Cameron's new housing advisor has said.
It’s telling that the chancellor failed to mention ‘manufacturing’ once in his Autumn Statement
The re-balancing of the economy which Osborne promised has been all but abandoned.
Autumn Statement 2013: winners and losers
The distributional impact of today's Autumn Statement as broken down by HMRC.