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Ed Balls doesn’t really do contrition. He flirted with the idea on the Today programme this morning when he said sorry for the failure of banking regulations, and admitted that not every pound had been well spent by Labour.
Euro crisis, poor jobs figures, massive national strikes, on top of high inflation squeezing living standards – Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on the political response to the economic bad weather.
Christine Lagarde is quite some diplomat. So Madame Lagarde has not quite been saying what Ed Balls has been saying she has been saying. But nor is she giving the ringing endorsement received from this organisation as recently as June.
The head of the International Monetary Fund warns that Britain must be ready to respond to the sluggish global recovery.
Faisal Islam on the fall-out from the downgrading of Britain’s growth figures
The Bank of England holds interest rates at 0.5 per cent and refuses to extend its quantitative easing programme to boost the supply of money in the economy.
So overall, an attempt to centralise decisionmaking over tax, spend and borrowing between France and Germany, as a prelude to doing it across Europe. Which leads me to the Eurobond, the much vaunted silver bullet awaited by many in the markets, the Italians, and are very own George Osborne.
The claim “Fact of the day (because the BBC won’t tell you): UK spending cuts are currently smaller than €urozone average” Tim Montgomerie, Conservative Home editor, on Twitter, May 23 2011
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley delays the NHS reforms amid criticism of the “chaotic” plans. A leading GP tells Channel 4 News change is welcome, but patients and doctors are “totally confused”.
The claim “This Meeting deplores the government’s misleading and inaccurate talking down of health outcomes in the UK in order to justify its White Paper reforms and Health Bill in England.”
The man who tried to teach Colonel Gaddafi’s son, Saif, economics tells Channel 4 News the government’s moves to seize the dictator’s assets are little more than posturing.
A new report claims the price of food on the supermarket shelf is rising faster than inflation – and British consumers are feeling the pinch more than anyone in the developed world.
The claim “My concern is that a great deceit designed to damage Labour has led to profoundly misguided and dangerous economic decisions that I fear will cause deep damage to Britain’s future. What is this deceit? It is that the deficit was caused by chronic overspending rather than a global financial crisis that resulted in…
“If you look at the population and how much they spend, then VAT is progressive…Income tax and National Insurance would have a more damaging impact on poorer people in our society and it’s worth remembering that in the Budget I took substantial means to reduce the NI burden” Chancellor George Osborne MP, BBC Radio 4’s Today programme January 4, 2011
Uncovering the true scale of the WikiLeaks-inspired Anonymous cyber attacks, they were not as bad as we were led to believe, writes Technology Correspondent Benjamin Cohen.