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The stage seemed set for a Conservative surge, but Britain’s changing policy mood got in the way.
In his budget speech, George Osborne claimed that the north grew faster than the south last year. Is he right?
The political to-and-fro after George Osborne’s budget failed to ignite political imaginations. Maybe because all parties are struggling to rationalise the hole government coffers.
A defence that argues that ‘it depends on how you measure it’ does not wash.
For five years the Chancellor has sought to invigorate returns on investment for businesses, but the pay off is yet to materialise.
George Osborne’s bid to boost home ownership in Britain might look like an effort to give young people a leg-up onto the housing ladder, but the evidence suggests they will be sorely disappointed.
Osborne’s confidence in the Commons won’t mean much to hard up workers.
Labour says we’re worse off, but the Tories say living standards are on the rise - who’s right?
It might be that this budget proves to have been too clever by half.
As expected, chancellor George Osborne pulled a handful of small rabbits out of his hat as he announced his pre-electoral budget. Lowering the tax allowance, cutting taxes to middle-income earners together…
Austerity has not been a success for the Chancellor, but that won’t stop him from trying to paint is as such.
George Osborne has repeatedly managed to promise tax cuts and deficit reduction – and we can expect more of the same in this year’s budget.
British tax rules mean it makes more sense to knock a good house down than make changes which will sharply cut national emissions.
With the Bank of England mooting the idea it might get involved with digital currencies, you might think it was good news for Bitcoin.
As HSBC suffers under the scorching spotlight of public scrutiny once more, it is fair to ask why the banking group so often finds itself at the heart of the action.
David Cameron is going to have to defend his austerity record in the weeks ahead. Did he get it right?
And so it has arrived: draft legislation on further powers for the Scottish parliament, published before Burns Night (January 25), in accordance with the timetable set out in the wake of “The Vow”. As…
Predicting oil price movements is as risky as exploring for oil itself. The average price for crude fell 10.3% from the start of 2014 to the date of the Scottish independence referendum on September 18…
From their inception, austerity policies have been promoted as necessary for economic recovery. Throughout Europe, the demand to cut spending and deficits is presented not as a choice but a requirement…
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