A Plan B for the banks but not the economy?
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam asks whether bad news for the economy could end up being good news for the banks?
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Coalition plans for the economy are criticised by a senior Conservative backbencher on the eve of the party’s conference in Manchester.
Ed Balls doesn’t really do contrition. He flirted with the idea on the Today programme this morning when he said sorry for the failure of banking regulations, and admitted that not every pound had been well spent by Labour.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says he would use any profit from selling the state’s share in banks to pay off the national debt.
Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News there is a “gear change” in Whitehall as the government tries to stimulate economic growth.
Vince Cable gives a downbeat assessment of the UK economy but insists he is “positively committed” to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, as Gary Gibbon reports.
The head of the International Monetary Fund warns that Britain must be ready to respond to the sluggish global recovery.
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam asks whether bad news for the economy could end up being good news for the banks?
The leading index of shares on London markets dips below 5,000 for the first time in a year amid continuing turmoil in global trading.
Our Political Editor looks at reports of strains between Number 10 and 11 Downing Street over growth strategy – and finds signs of political depression.
The UK economy has grown by just 0.2 per cent during the last quarter, with the Japanese tsunami, Royal Wedding, and April bank holidays all having an impact.
Faisal Islam blogs on how the British economy did officially shrink in the last quarter – by a fraction of a per cent.
Voters in Northern Ireland will soon decide which politicians will take a seat in the compulsory coalition of the governing assembly. Carl Dinnen looks at the campaign issues taking centre stage.
Whilst we were told that the industry was washing around with so much superprofit from high oil prices that this tax raid would be basically unnoticed, it appears they have had what you might call a crude awakening
Faisal Islam casts doubt on the theory that Japan’s economy will bounce back swiftly from the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
GDP dropped 0.6 per cent in the last quarter of 2010 – worse than the original 0.5 per cent estimate which caused economic shockwaves. Can the Government still blame the weather, Siobhan Kennedy asks.