Memo to Osborne: Jobs and growth will cut the deficit. Please listen
Cormac Hollingworth explains to George Osborne how rising unemployment and recession are increasing the deficit, and how jobs and growth will cut it. Simples.
Cormac Hollingworth explains to George Osborne how rising unemployment and recession are increasing the deficit, and how jobs and growth will cut it. Simples.
The Into the Black Labour crowd have nailed their colours to the OBR just as it – and George Osborne – lose credibility. What gives?
Will Straw runs through the OBR’s plummeting growth projections
Today’s growth and borrowing forecasts are likely to be grim – they are just as likely to be over optimistic.
Will Straw details what to expect from tomorrow’s OBR figures on growth, why they’re likely to be lower than predicted, and how that affects Osborne’s plans to continue his austerity programme.
Tony Dolphin of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) explains the effect the new inflation statistics will have on the UK economy.
The IMF downgrades to UK growth today is awful news for those who are hoping to cut the deficit, explains Left Foot Forward’s Cormac Hollingsworth.
Britain is bottom of the G7’s growth league table. Excluding earthquake-hit Japan, Britain is growing more slowly than every other major developed economy.
The Resolution Foundation’s Gavin Kelly and Matthew Whittaker look at whether squeezed households will really borrow more to prop up living standards.
The chief economist of the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) has predicted that, excluding the effect of snow in December, the economy may have only grown 0.1 to 0.2 per cent in the six months to March. If true, ittest