Gary Gibbon
Academies for all – whether you want them or not
The abolition of non-academy schools marks the end of the system of devolved, local accountability for schools that goes back nearly 150 years. But why is it in the Budget?
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Budget 2024: will Labour’s £40bn tax hike backfire?
Will Labour’s first budget in 14 years deliver growth and fix public services, or just hit businesses with a £40bn tax raid? Krishnan Guru-Murthy crunches the numbers with economists and politicians.
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Budget preview
In the last Spring budget tomorrow few big shifts or radical changes are expected from the Chancellor.
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More money for free schools in Budget
The Government is to make £320m pounds available to fund 140 new free schools in England. And that could pave the way for some of the new schools to become selective grammar schools.
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How will the Chancellor spend Britain’s multi-billion tax windfall?
The Chancellor has said he’ll take a cautious approach to public spending in this week’s Budget – despite the fact that improved economic forecasts suggest he’s going to receive a multi-billion pound tax windfall.
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FactCheck: the surprising truth about inequality
“The independent statistics confirm that, under this Prime Minister, child poverty is down, pensioner poverty is down, inequality is down, and the gender pay gap has never been smaller.” George Osborne, 16 March 2015 The background George Osborne included this wide-ranging defence of coalition and Conservative policy in his Budget speech this week. The most…
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Has Osborne’s Autumn Statement moved him to left of Vince Cable?
Mr Osborne’s newly announced plans to scale back cuts and raise taxes brings him in line with policy positions promoted by his Lib Dem coalition partners during the last parliament.
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George Osborne scraps controversial tax credit reforms
In a surprise move, the Chancellor tells MPs that his much-criticised plans to cut tax credits to working families are to be abandoned entirely.
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‘Birmingham’s benefits queen’: I fear eviction after budget
Will the poorer get poorer after the benefit changes announced by George Osborne? Darshna Soni meets a single mum with eight children, who is worried she could be evicted because of the welfare cap.
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Gary Gibbon
Minimum wage upgrade does not offset benefit cuts
The Institute for Fiscal Studies finds it is undoubtedly the case that tax credit recipients in work will on average be worse off as a result of the budget changes
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Gary Gibbon
Summer Budget 2015: topsy turvy politics
The chancellor stole some of Labour’s policy clothes in his latest budget announcements, but his tendency to favour old over young has not been altered.
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Budget 2015: the key points in Tory plan for the economy
George Osborne has pledged to create a “higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare” Britain as he unveiled the first Tory-only Budget for nearly 20 years.
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George Osborne family business’ £6m offshore deal
Chancellor George Osborne’s family business made £6m in a property deal with a developer based in a tax haven, Paul McNamara and Guy Basnett investigate.
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Gary Gibbon
Greece: UK told no immediate threat to bank funding
The government will want to give clear advice to tourists heading for Greece (in a few weeks’ time that includes quite a few MPs, I understand, who have holidays booked there).
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Budget 2015: austerity squeeze to end a year early
George Osborne says more optimistic growth and borrowing forecasts, boosted by the falling price of oil, mean the squeeze on public spending can end a year earlier than predicted.
