Should Britain help bail-out Ireland?
Our Economics Editor looks at Ireland’s growing economic ills – and what they may mean for Britain.
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Our Economics Editor looks at Ireland’s growing economic ills – and what they may mean for Britain.
FactCheck analyses Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson’s claim that Labour “paid down debt” and controlled borrowing.
Nick Clegg has rejected a leading think tank’s claims that families would be hit hardest by the government’s “regressive” spending review.
A round-up of three of the claims the Chancellor made that the Institute for Fiscal Studies takes issue with.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies reveals the half-truths, “stealth cuts” and real victims of the Chancellor’s Spending Review, writes our Economics Editor, Faisal Islam.
Labour leader Ed Miliband is deciding on his line-up for the Shadow Cabinet, as Yvette Cooper battles it out with her husband Ed Balls for top job as Shadow Chancellor.
Ed Miliband’s choice of Alan Johnson as his new Shadow Chancellor was “both unexpected and inspired”, writes Labour’s former communications chief, Lance Price.
The 19 members of Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet are announced with Yvette Cooper topping the ballot amid intense speculation over who will scoop the top jobs.
FactCheck looks at some of the claims Labour leader Ed Miliband makes in an interview with Channel 4 News
Ed Miliband tells us he feels sorry for David
Labour leader Ed Miliband tells Channel 4 News his plan to cut the deficit would include getting more from taxation, such as taxes on the banks.
The day after the Bank of England’s Deputy Governor told Channel 4 News that savers should be eating into their capital we hear from one expert on how best to preserve your pot of money.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) gives an official slap on the back to George Osborne and his “strong and credible” deficit reduction plan, saying the cuts were essential.
The mantle of leadership is a strange thing. In the space of a few hours Ed Miliband already looks a little more authoritative. The look of shock and the sense of pain he clearly had about the impact on his brother David last night seem to have gone.
Ed Miliband beats brother and four other candidates to become new leader of the Labour party. Political Editor Gary Gibbon says the Tories will go hard on Ed being the ‘prisoner of the trade unions’.