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Budget 2011: what to watch out for
It’s Chancellor George Osborne’s first full Budget. But as the Government tries to balance growth with the “age of austerity”, what will it deliver? Channel 4 News speaks to the experts.
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How fair is public sector pension reform?
Lord Hutton, author of a new report on public sector pension reform, tells Channel 4 News fairness is a key aim – but others say the system remains so unfair it will need another review in five years.
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Gaddafi: ‘I am not going to leave this land’
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says he is not going to leave Libya and will “die here as a martyr” despite huge protests, as Channel 4 News looks at his defiance, and the ongoing violence.
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Libya: Gaddafi ‘last man standing’ vow as protests spread
Colonel Gaddafi’s son vows the Libyan regime will fight until the “last man standing”, as an engineer in Tripoli tells Channel 4 News the city is shaking.
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Osborne at G20: ‘Britain was overpriced’
As George Osborne meets the world’s 20 most powerful finance ministers in Paris, he tells Channel 4 News that British households are suffering as a crucial rebalancing of the economy takes place.
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‘Project Merlin’ bank lending deal to be announced
The deal between the Government and the UK’s biggest banks on lending and bonuses, dubbed ‘Project Merlin’, could be announced today, sources close to the deal tell Channel 4 News.
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Lib Dem Lord Oakeshott quits Treasury role after bank deal
Lord Oakeshott has left his Treasury role “by mutual agreement” after criticising the Government’s Project Merlin bank deal. The departure was confirmed live on Channel 4 News by Danny Alexander.
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FactCheck: Ed Miliband’s share of national debt was how much?
The claim “When Ed Miliband was born, his share of the national debt was under £600” The background Ed Miliband said in a speech on inter generational fairness today that the ‘British promise’ – his somewhat clunky version of the American Dream – is under threat.
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George Osborne defends austerity plan
Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity plan to Channel 4 News saying that abandoning the deficit reduction plan, would drag the country “back into the danger zone”.
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George Osborne defends austerity plan
Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity plan to Channel 4 News saying that abandoning the deficit reduction plan, would drag the country “back into the danger zone”.
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Cameron tells Davos: ‘We will see cuts through’
In his first speech as Prime Minister to the World Economic Forum in Davos, David Cameron insists that Britain will stick to the austerity measures and pledges a Budget for growth in the Spring.
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What’s a fair price for petrol?
The claim “I do think there’s a very attractive idea of saying that as oil prices rise and as the Treasury potentially benefits from some revenue from those oil price rises… is there a way of sharing the pain of increased petrol prices between the motorist on the one hand and the Treasury on the…
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Petrol price rise will ‘slow economy’
Petrol prices are predicted to reach an average of 136p a litre by Easter. One transport group tells Channel 4 News that rising prices at the pumps risk slowing down the economy at difficult time.
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Cameron tells banks: pay smaller bonuses
Amid reports that RBS’s chief executive is in line for a £2.5m bonus, Prime Minister David Cameron says the state-owned bank should be leading the way in awarding smaller bonuses.
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