living standards
According to the IFS, people really are worse off under the Tories
Despite the sort of spin that we saw last Friday, people really are worse off under the Tories.
The coalition’s cost of living sleight of hand
The transparent attempt by the government to selectively reinterpret the data so as to downplay the so-called 'cost of living crisis' is frankly rather alarming.
Despite welcome news on unemployment, pay and productivity are stagnating
Despite today's welcome news on falling unemployment, pay and productivity are stagnating.
The growth of food banks: a crisis made in Downing Street
Are more people really using food banks because of a greater awareness of them?
Philip Hammond claims living standards are rising. Backs up the claim with…nothing
Defence secretary Philip Hammond was on the Daily Politics today and made a startling claim: that living standards are starting to rise again.
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.