George Osborne
Mixed reaction to Spending Review across the nations
Across the nations the chancellor’s spending review has received a mixed reaction to say the very least.
Osborne’s budget gift to payday lenders
We've a gaffe-prone chancellor in George Osborne: before it was the 4x4 in the disabled parking space, then it was the fine for not having a first class ticket. Now he's caught out by The Sun for eating a “posh burger”.
Health ringfence is not enough to protect the NHS
Health spending has always been a public priority: PwC recently found that 67 per cent of people support protecting the NHS - up from 58 per cent in 2010.
Jobseeker’s Allowance changes will not help more people into work
We were anticipating the announcement about a cap on Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) spending for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This accounts for a huge lump of government spending overall – much of the rest of the savings are tinkering by comparison.
Channel 4 highlights Osborne’s ‘grossly misleading claims on investment’
Faisal Islam at Channel 4 Factcheck claims to have witnessed "the most egregious statistical chicanery...in a Treasury fiscal event in 13 years of covering economics for newspapers and TV".
Spending Review: Osborne to take 10 years to simply get back to 2007/08
Considering the government likes to throw every question they are asked in the chamber back at Labour - i.e. "we're clearing up the mess left by the last government" - it's strange how, going by the projections released along with today's spending review, it's going to take until 2017/18 for the Tories to be back where the Labour government was in 2007-2008.