About that recovery George (The Osborne Effect revisited)
George Osborne departed for the summer holidays evidently feeling rather chirpy about the UK’s economic prospects, and it’s…
George Osborne
Labour should be congratulating Osborne today, not attacking him
Today’s GDP growth of 0.6% (so widely predicted over the weekend it’s hard not to believe it was…
The worst of both worlds
A brief from Merrill Lynch, one of the world’s leading financial management companies, in 2011 began: “Recessions don’t…
Responses to the CSR
Mark Ferguson: Today’s parliamentary “festivities” started with Ed Miliband trying to strangle the Comprehensive Spending Review at birth,…
Why Osborne is announcing more cuts today
Why is the Chancellor announcing cuts today at all? Figures released by the OBR show why. Despite spending…
This is how Labour will respond to the CSR
The precise details of the Comprehensive Spending Review, due to be announced this afternoon, are not yet known…
What’s my name again? Obama calls Osborne “Jeffrey” three times at G8
There’s a damning report in The Sun this morning that Barack Obama repeatedly referred to George Osborne as…
Balls overtakes Osborne as “most capable Chancellor” in latest Ipsos-Mori poll
Update: The poll also continues the recent trend of small Labour leads with ICM – 4 points this…
Our recovery is miles behind America – Osborne isn’t working, Obama is
The UK’s growth forecast was downgraded by the OECD this morning. That’s not particularly surprising – our growth…
Osborne proves that austerity is about ideology, not evidence
Last month, it was revealed that research by Professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff – used to fuel the…
