“No intention, no proposals, no plans” – Labour’s stinging new video hits Tory record on raising VAT
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls this morning made a manifesto commitment that Labour would not raise or expand VAT.…
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Tories at war: Cameron resignation announcement fires gun on Tory leadership contest
David Cameron has announced that he will stand down as Prime Minister – in 2020. The Tory leader…
Ask the Chancellors: a boring sign of things to come
I am not one of those who claims this is a boring election. While the current Labour Party…
George Osborne has shown Labour that they don’t need to make cuts and slash the deficit
Labour has been hamstrung by George Osborne. The general election seems to be a choice between Tory cuts…
Rather than delivering long-term investment in transport, the Government think they can fool the North with a short-term political con
Chancellor George Osborne and the Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, made an official state visit to the North of…
Forget Osborne’s tactics, this budget has nothing to say about growth
How does the budget look from the industrial estates of England? Those forgotten lands of low ugly sheds…
Labour’s fiscal targets mean cuts could end next year
Labour’s plans for deficit reduction could mean that spending cuts finish by 2016 – just as the Tories’…
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…
The worst thing about the Budget? The tax cuts
My plan for this week’s column was “pick something you hate about the Budget and write about it.” Lamentably…
What do the Tories do now?
Was that it? That was the big game changing moment we had been so afraid (and the Tories…
