A deeply perilous moment for coalition economic policy
Faisal Islam on the fall-out from the downgrading of Britain’s growth figures
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Faisal Islam on the fall-out from the downgrading of Britain’s growth figures
As the Government’s financial watchdog warns the UK economy will grow more slowly this year than expected, Channel 4 News looks at the UK’s place in the unhappy global economic picture.
Chancellor George Osborne is keen to promote progressive economic policies. But are such egalitarian impulses reflected in the backgrounds of his special advisers at the Treasury?
Budget 2011: Economics Editor Faisal Islam on George Osborne’s give-with-one-hand, take-with-the-other budget.
Chancellor George Osborne claims his Budget will “put fuel into the tank of the British economy” as he cuts petrol duty by 1p a litre and unveils a package of measures to boost businesses.
We need to reform public sector pensions because they are “gold plated” and “unfair” and “unaffordable”, right? Not necessarily, says Faisal Islam.
Surrounded by death masks and shrouds, the IFS is giving its economic forecasts on the bowels of the British Museum. They are marginally but significantly gloomier than the OBR. blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts that the economic recovery will be the slowest we’ve known in post-war recoveries, as Gary Gibbon blogs.
The budgetary watchdog sees an “uncertain” future for the UK economy – but predicts public sector job losses will be much lower than forecast. Chancellor George Osborne says “Britain is on the mend”.
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.
“Somewhat regressive” were the words that the coalition, particularly the yellow half, really would not have wanted to hear from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), writes economics editor Faisal Islam.
Can the shadow Chancellor cut the deficit and cut taxes at one fell swoop? FactCheck checks it out.
Why the £13bn the Tories claim to save by raising the state pension age is debatable.