Cameron continues Gideon’s race to the bottom
Alex Hern rebuts Adrian Beecroft’s claim that cutting employment rights will increase employment.
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IFS: Education spending will “shrink” at fastest rate “since at least the 1950s”
A new report today reveals education spending will be slashed by more than 13 per cent over this parliament – the largest cut since at least the fifties.
More evidence of impact of Osborne’s savage research and development cuts
There was yet more evidence of the impact of George Osborne’s short-sighted cuts to science and research and development today, reports Shamik Das.
Gideonomics: A rogue chancellor fails to run the greenest government ever
Sustrans’s Eleanor Besley dissects the government’s abdication of David Cameron’s claims it will be the “greenest government ever”.
For every extra £4 spending is cut, it only cuts borrowing an extra 75p
The latest figures on growth (or lack of) are bad for the government’s deficit reduction plan; the government is terrible at cutting borrowing generally.
Inflation report is bad news for Osborne’s targets
Tony Dolphin of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) explains the effect the new inflation statistics will have on the UK economy.
Miliband and Balls need to be more vocal in support of the Robin Hood Tax
Labour needs to come out and tackle the UK government’s misleading claim the Financial Transaction Tax, aka the Robin Hood Tax, is just a ‘Brussels tax’.
Cameron’s “failed experiment” leads to yet another economic downgrade
Alex Hern runs through the latest negative economic news, and reports on the New York Times’s criticism of the UK government.
Nine economists tell George Osborne how to fix the country
Alex Hern runs through the alternatives presented to George Osborne in this weeks New Statesman.
Cameron ditches “Vote blue go green” and tells BP: ‘Drill, baby, drill!’
David Cameron drilled a further nail in the coffin of the ‘greenest government ever’ myth, with his support for BP’s North Sea oil drilling plans, reports Joss Garman.