Articles on July Budget 2015
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Highly inventive and offering myriad routes to goal, tiki taka is the kind of approach to innovation and wealth creation the UK must take.
The UK is witnessing its biggest cull of public sector jobs in half a century and hundreds of thousands of workers must make the transition to the private sector.
Summer budget signals a return to the unsustainable ways of the past.
In his budget speech chancellor George Osborne pitched the Conservatives as social reformists – and the party has been involved in some key legislative changes.
In his budget, George Osborne said that we are all in this together. A look at the evidence shows that we’re not.
Chancellor’s promise of £9 an hour is nothing more than false advertising.
The arithmetic for town halls and previously endangered Whitehall departments is now distinctly rosier.
With this budget, George Osborne has shown he’s a sophisticated political operator.
A living wage grabs the headlines, but sluggish productivity is a harder nut to crack than that.
Despite the announcement of a living wage, less well off families are actually set to be worse off.
This was a bombshell of a budget, signalling direct interventions in the labour market that went far beyond what most observers were expecting.
Summer has never truly arrived in Britain until we can enjoy those great traditional events of the season: Wimbledon, a major cricket test series, and an emergency post-election budget from George Osborne…
After months of speculation, we now know how the Chancellor plans to save £12bn from the welfare budget.
Instant reaction from academics as George Osborne delivers his post-election budget.
The government’s austerity programme hasn’t just put the poor under terrible pressure – it’s actually breached Britain’s international legal obligations.
An economic recovery underpinned by household debt is storing up problems for an ideological chancellor.
When welfare budgets get cut, layers of help and guidance are slowly stripped away from the most vulnerable.
David Cameron has tried to claim the clothes of social justice for the Conservatives. It’s time he took them off.
Commitments made at election time have a habit of tying the Chancellor’s hands come budget day.


















