Faisal Islam
Would this be Alistair Darling’s advice to George Osborne?
Faisal Islam imagines what a letter between Alistair Darling and George Osborne could look like.
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Are the Tory savings just back-of-an-envelope sums?
Its claim and counter-claim from the Tories and Labour over how the Tories can make even more efficiency savings than are already being made.
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Faisal Islam
After Ask the Chancellors – Operation Spin Room
About five minutes after Channel 4’s Ask the Chancellors debate had ended, Britain’s first ever “spin room” was invaded by a phalanx of sharp-suited Conservatives, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Ask the Chancellors: death tax, child tax credits & income gap
FactCheck looks at a range of statements from the “Ask the Chancellors” debate on Channel 4
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Will savings of £11bn reduce deficit?
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.
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Faisal Islam
Election battleground boils down to bulk
The word bulk is now key to the election economics. It is the root of what difference exists between Labour and Conservatives in terms of their spending cuts and tax rises.
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Budget 2010: vague savings, growth forecasts, job claims
Key claims in Alistair Darling’s 2010 budget – FactChecked.
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Faisal Islam
Alistair Darling’s pothole budget
What has happened to the giant pothole in the public finances? The answer is that some of it, more than expected, has been filled in, but not by Mr Darling, writes Faisal Islam.
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Gary Gibbon
Budget shows how Labour hopes to neutralise Tory attacks
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on how the budget shows Labour’s strategy for neutralising Conservative attacks on the economy.
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Gary Gibbon
A foretaste of budgets to come
Alistair Darling prepares to deliver the budget, but we learn little very new more about the grim times ahead today.
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Faisal Islam
The business vote exposes the false fiscal fight
At the moment both parties are conniving in exaggerating their differences like two weary boxers clinging on to each other in the closing stages of a long fight, writes Faisal Islam.
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Jon Snow
Has politics been turned on its head?
Has politics been turned on its head, with Labour now the party of “big business”, blogs Jon Snow.
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Gary Gibbon
Denis Healey and the man behind Britain’s IMF bail-out
Interviewing Denis Healey and former IMF chief Johannes Witteveen about the day Britain had to be bailed out by the IMF.
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Faisal Islam
Darling’s softly softly tactics
Faisal Islam blogs on the end of the recession and Alastair Darling’s tactics.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown challenge: awaiting Darling, Harman and Straw
Brown leadership challenge: would Geoff Hoon really fire off just one shot without choreographing a second one, blogs Gary Gibbon.