Gary Gibbon
Spending review ‘conceals a lot of pain’
George Osborne’s making much of having undershot Labour’s notional departmental spending average of 20 per cent. But that’s a dubious comparison, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Spending Review: the price of the Pupil Premium
Have the Lib Dems, once again, been forced to water down one of their most cherished policies – the pupil premium? FactCheck finds out.
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Spending Review: fairness, child benefit and tax credits
There was a lot to check out in the Spending Review – and we’ll keep on it for the rest of the week. But here’s a taster of the claims that caught FactCheck’s eye.
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PledgeCheck: the Coalition cuts to their election pledges
FactCheck looks at a few of the pledges the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have dropped in the name of coalition and cost cutting.
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Are the cuts fair?
Is the spending review fair? Choosing “fairness” as the test could yet turn out to be an act of political genius, or a suicide note.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Spending review: Osborne’s child benefit sums
We were told by the Tories when they announced child benefit changes at their own conference that removing higher rate tax payers would bring in around £1b. But – hey presto – George Osborne’s just said it will bring in £2.5bn, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Spending review: ‘richest pay most’?
In his spending review, Chancellor Osborne said distributional analysis shows richest pay most when you look at “entire fiscal consolidation” – that’s all tax, spend and welfare decisions starting, I presume, with the last government, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Spending review: the "life and death consequences"
There will be pain. There will be anger. There will be despair. But there will not, at least initially, be a real life and death consequence as a result of most of the CSR. Most of it. But not all of it.
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LIVE BLOG: Spending Review unveiled by Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne reveals the details of the coalition government’s comprehensive spending review. Follow it as it happens and have your say on our live blog.
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Spending review: who loses out?
Who is at greatest risk from the spending review? Experts and charities tell Channel 4 News the changes to benefits will affect those most in need, leaving the vulnerable out in the cold.
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Osborne to reveal full scale of cuts
The full scale of spending cuts will be unveiled today when Chancellor George Osborne outlines the details of the government’s comprehensive spending review.
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Unions condemn spending review job losses
George Osborne said it was the day Britain stepped back from the brink. But union leaders tell Channel 4 News the spending review will lead to “wholesale unemployment”.
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Spending review: our correspondents’ verdicts
As Chancellor George Osborne delivers his long-awaited spending review, Channel 4 News correspondents deliver their verdicts on the cuts.
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Faisal Islam
Leaked Whitehall memo on job cuts: ‘The front line will bear the brunt’
Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that 14,000 jobs are to go at the Ministry of Justice – 11,000 of them from the frontline, according to a leaked internal memo.
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Preparing for cuts: a single mum & disabled pensioner
As the Government prepares to reveal tens of billions of pounds in spending cuts Channel 4 News speaks to a single mum and a disabled pensioner about their fears for the future.
