Osborne’s stimlu-lite is more pork for vested interests
Alex Hern warns that, necessary as an economic stimulus is, it could simply end up being a hand-out to big business.
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Devolved nations call for Osborne to boost growth
In anticipation for George Osborne’s autumn statement, Scotland calls for stimulus, Wales gets on with it.
UK growth – bottom of the table, wallowing with the PIGS
UK Growth is miserable and about to dive into recession according to the OECD. However, the government can’t blame it all on external factors – we’re doing worse than most OECD countries.
Osborne’s climb-down on train fares shows this chancellor is for turning
Alexandra Woodsworth writes about the victory for passionate campaigning that George Osborne’s u-turn on fare rises represents
These Tories can’t even privatise competently
Cormac Hollingsworth explains why, if you wanted to sell Northern Rock, you would have done it better than the Government. So why didn’t they?
Record NEET figures the result of Osborne’s ignorant, short-sighted ideology
The number of young people not working or learning is now at record levels and there is little to suggest the situation will improve, says Sally Hunt.
50p tax: Still a Tory obsession, still not that exceptional
Alex Hern runs over the latest piece of bad Conservative economics to try and get the 50p tax rate for the richest in our society scrapped.
Miliband attacks Osborne’s “dangerous gamble” and “catastrophic mistakes” on economy
Speaking ahead of George Osborne’s autumn statement, Ed Miliband launched a scathing attack on the chancellor’s economic record, competency and strategy today.
We’ve got the wrong sort of growth – a fall in real GDP now looks more likely
The outlook for the final quarter of the year is gloomy; a fall in real GDP now looks the most likely outcome, writes IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin.
Osborne should change course next Tuesday, but he won’t
Those hoping for a change of course when the chancellor delivers his Autumn Statement will be disappointed, write IPPR’s Tony Dolphin and Adam Lent.