Does Osborne plan a year of change, or a year of tweak?
Shadow chancellor George Osborne announces eight benchmarks on which electors could judge his chancellorship.
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Shadow chancellor George Osborne announces eight benchmarks on which electors could judge his chancellorship.
Post-meltdown Mansion House was always going to be a little different from the traditional orgy of self-congratulation, backslapping, and an ever lighter regulatory touch. But in the end the bruising speech came from the governor of the Bank of England rather than the chancellor of the exchequer.
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Is there nothing that Barack Obama can’t do effortlessly well? This weekend he’s had a lot of praise for his comic timing as he pulled off a very assured performance at his first White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Traditionally the president makes a comic speech. Some do better than others –…
The political row escalated in July when seven Labour MPs had the whip suspended after they rebelled and voted for an SNP amendment to the King’s Speech, calling for the two-child limit to be scrapped.
Following the announcement, police have dropped an investigation into Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner, we began by asking Mel Stride whether the Conservative party owe her an apology.
The former Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies told the Covid Inquiry today that a generation of children have been damaged by the pandemic.
In recent weeks politicians have told us to learn to cook, buy value food, turn the lights off and work longer hours or the especially helpful: get a better paid job.
We were joined by David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee who is now an economics professor at Dartmouth University, and Rupert Harrison, who was former chancellor George Osborne’s chief of staff from 2010 to 2015 – and is now at the BlackRock investment firm.
A senior minister cited the 2013 Finance Act as precedent. But it’s not so simple.
We spoke to Rupert Harrison, who was formerly chief of staff to George Osborne when he was Chancellor, and is now portfolio manager at BlackRock, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief executive at the New Economics Foundation, a left-wing think tank.
We talk to Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, and Rupert Harrison, who was Chief of Staff to George Osborne when he was Chancellor.
Dominic Cummings’ push to decide who works in the Special Adviser tier across government and his desire to lash the Treasury to No. 10 has led to one of the biggest reshuffle upsets in living memory.
Get ready to relive it all…
Under EU law, a new member state is required to join the euro – but there is no compulsory timetable.
At PMQs nobody dared mention the splinter group formed from Labour and Tory MPs only moments earlier. It was like everybody pretending they didn’t hear the vicar’s fart at afternoon tea.