Chancellors debate – all very reasonable so far
All very reasonable so far in the Channel 4 chancellors debate, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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All very reasonable so far in the Channel 4 chancellors debate, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Ahead of the budget, we already have the start of a Dutch auction between the main parties on bank taxes that seeks to tap into enduring public anger for electoral purposes, writes Faisal Islam.
The message in the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Green Budget, published today, is: don’t cut now but plan credible larger cuts for the entirety of the next parliament, blogs Faisal Islam.
Ken vs Mandy, “it’s mostly monetary” for the Tories and the gift of the Gabay, blogs Faisal Islam.
Faisal Islam tweets his reaction to the Chancellor’s pre-budget report.
Channel 4 News Economics correspondent Faisal Islam examines the news that the Bank of England loand more than £60bn to RBS and HBoS in secret.
The Lib Dem leadership position remains that the overall tax burden (in normal economic peacetime) is too high but given the doo-doo we’re in it might have to rise.
Cabinet ministers and opposition politicians are engaging in aggressive pre-election campaign rhetoric. But the fight is yet to come.
A gushing waltz; a tear in the eye; and David Blunkett telling me, as I led him to the stage, “This is the blind leading the blind!” Where can I possibly have been other than at the somewhat counter-intuitive Channel 4 Political Awards? We were recording this Saturday’s show, and it has some real pearls.
There’s a lot we still don’t know.
Sir Keir claimed: ‘The Prime Minister said he had a deal. He didn’t.’
The Wikileaks files suggest there have been western efforts to “bring pressure” on Saudi Arabia to end its support for ISIS.
Police are searching the home of a Labour councillor whose son is one of nine Britons detained in Turkey on suspicion of trying to cross the border into Syria.
Swedish prosecutors say they will question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over sexual assault allegations inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The death toll on a blazing ferry off the Greek coast reaches 10 amid reports more people could still be missing.