Osborne puts clear blue water between the parties
Shadow chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that he will reverse Labour’s planned rise in national insurance puts clear blue water between the main parites, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Plaid Cymru accuses the “London parties” of planning to slash & burn budgets in Wales
Can the shadow Chancellor cut the deficit and cut taxes at one fell swoop? FactCheck checks it out.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that he will reverse Labour’s planned rise in national insurance puts clear blue water between the main parites, blogs Faisal Islam.
Alistair Darling claimed government departments will make £11bn of efficiences which will go towards reducing borrowing in his 2010 Budget statement. FactCheck puts it to the test.
Key claims in Alistair Darling’s 2010 budget – FactChecked.
David Cameron claims that Labour election leaflets “are quite simply lies” when they say his party would cut the winter fuel allowance, free bus travel and the free TV licence.
Gordon Brown admits Labour has made mistakes and he is not perfect, as he appeals to disaffected voters to look again at the party.
The Conservatives say there is a funding black hole in the government’s national care service plans – do the numbers add up?
Channel 4 News’s economics correspondent Faisal Islam believes Germany and France are ready to bail Greece out of its financial crisis.
Alistair Darling gave the impression that the party of the NHS was to continue the bountiful spending settlements that have seen the health service budget triple since 1997, but capital spending is set for a 21.9% real-terms cut.
A quick one from the archive: we cast our eye back over some of the most dubious statements made by politicians of all kinds last year, as debunked by FactCheck. Miscounting Gurkhas “What I can’t do, which is what some are asking me to do but the judge did not, is to grant every Gurkha…
A Channel 4 News/ICM poll shows little sign voters will credit Gordon Brown with getting the country out of recession when it comes to the general election.
It was brave of Lord Turner to take his controversial take on the future of finance directly to an audience of black-tied bankers at the Mansion House. He was heckled, and the mood music in the City, and apparently at the dinner too, seems to resemble the attitude of a teenager who has been banned…
As TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber addresses the TUC conference with talk of “social costs of Tory recessions”, the Conservatives have already won the fight to shift the argument to the need for cuts.
Kenneth Clarke talks about cuts, while Peter Mandelson talks about “deficit reduction”, on the Today programme.