Will the IFS criticise the way Tories measure living standards?
Yesterday during the Budget, George Osborne claimed that living standards are up from 2010 standards. Job done, he…
Economy
What do the Tories do now?
Was that it? That was the big game changing moment we had been so afraid (and the Tories…
Osborne has chosen short term political gimmicks over a long term economic plan at every turn
George Osborne has insisted his pre-election Budget would contain “no gimmicks” – we’ll see. What we can be…
The ten-point failure of the Tories’ long-term economic plan
David Cameron talks about the Tories’ ‘long-term economic plan’ at every PMQs. Tory MPs line up to parrot…
Tory cuts will put the NHS at risk, says Balls
Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor, has outlined today how the Tories’ planned £70 bn cuts to public services would…
Balls warns second Tory term will mean bigger cuts than at any time since the war
George Osborne’s Autumn Statement means a second Tory term will bring with it deeper cuts than any other…
Time for an alternative to the pro-austerity consensus
The conventional assessment is that the UK economy is in reasonable shape. Indeed, there has been some growth…
Brown to lay out plan for “economic revolution” in Scotland
Gordon Brown will today lay out a plan to create an “economic revolution” in Scotland. Brown, who has…
Zero-hours contracts – a symptom of a wider broken economy
According to new ONS figures, nearly 700,000 people are on zero-hours contracts in their main job – a…
Is the UK China-Ready?
By Adam Tyndall and Joe Mullan As the largest country by population and purchasing power, China is leading…
