Tory Minister in car crash interview over Tories public spending ‘black hole’
Mel Stride fails to answer the question as his attack on Labour horribly backfires
public spending
‘Austerity is nowhere near over’: IFS gives bleak assessment of budget
Things are going to get much worse, before they get better.
Funding pressures will prevent government from meeting its own mental health targets
The money isn’t there to meaningfully improve services, says the Public Accounts Committee
Could Brexit turn the tide on George Osborne’s austerity economics?
Shelving his surplus and ‘Brexit budget’ are a concession that hard times cuts are folly
Working people must not pay the price for Brexit, says TUC chief
Frances O’Grady says protecting jobs and living standards is a priority after vote to leave EU
Teachers vote to strike over George Osborne’s cuts to schools
NUT votes by 91.7 per cent for industrial action
Report proposes ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ contracts for property developers
The Civitas publication also advocates a public house-building programme to push down prices
5 times the Tories have misused statistics
Jeremy Hunt is in good company
The length of this period of economic stagnation is almost unprecedented
The only era remotely comparable is the 1920s, covering the economic chaos at the end of the war and the disastrous return to the gold standard
IFS calls Osborne’s budget a ‘precarious balancing act’
Lead economists warn the chancellors inflexibility may lead to yet more cuts