Autumn statement: a ‘sugar high’ recovery for Osborne?
The chancellor had his revised growth updates to wave at Labour today but the cost of living indicators which Ed Miliband has got him looking at are a little bit more precarious.
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Nick Clegg criticises George Osborne’s plans to fix the British economy with deep cuts to the welfare budget, saying the chancellor is heaping the burden on those with the “narrowest shoulders”.
The chancellor had his revised growth updates to wave at Labour today but the cost of living indicators which Ed Miliband has got him looking at are a little bit more precarious.
The chancellor says he is scrapping employers’ national insurance contribution for under 21s from April 2015 and insists his austerity measures are working, but says the hard work is not over yet.
What bright ideas would light up the UK economy for you? George Osborne has set out his plan for economic recovery, but Channel 4 News wanted to find out what people on the street would like to see.
Chancellor George Osborne visits one of Britain’s last pits and promises to restore an allowance to hundreds of miners who lost their jobs in the summer.
Today’s GDP numbers are not the highest under George Osborne’s chancellorship. But they offer the possibility that confidence and investment will trigger a virtuous spiral in the Uk economy.
Chancellor George Osborne tells Channel 4 News “there is real momentum in the economy” following the publication of official figures showing that growth is rising at its fastest rate for three years.
China’s banks will be able to set up branches in Britain under an agreement reached by Chancellor George Osborne during a visit to Beijing.
The government has played down warnings that the Chinese telecoms giant could pose a threat to Britain’s cyber-security.
The chancellor is hoping to “change British attitudes” to China and is calling for more respect to be shown to the way the country is developing.
In conversation with Gary Gibbon – George Osborne tells Channel 4 News what his hair reveals about his economic policy and how the Tories “never really dealt” with Tony Blair as a political opponent.
George Osborne is trying to set out some new fiscal rules which he hopes Labour will struggle to match.
George Osborne outlines the “help to work” programme and his hope to freeze fuel duty, but tells the Conservative party conference the battle to turn Britain around “is not even close to being over”.
George Osborne defends his plans to make the long-term unemployed “work for the dole”, saying it will help people get off benefits.
Chancellor George Osborne gives new powers to the Bank of England to monitor the government’s help to buy scheme following criticism that it risks creating a housing boom and bust.