Cathy Newman
Destined for the top? The Thatcherite Muslim with working class roots
He’s not even in the cabinet yet, but MP Sajid Javid is being talked up as a potential future leader of the Conservative party.
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Government to slash energy and eco bills with tax crackdown
Chancellor George Osborne will cut energy bills by an average of £50 and offer home efficiency eco-grants of £1,000 by cracking down on tax avoidance.
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Cathy Newman
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Faisal Islam
Capping payday loans: from light touch to strong arm
The move to cap the amount payday lenders can charge is an extraordinary one, and a sign of stronger state-intervention in business.
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Payday lenders to face interest rate cap
Payday loans costs will be capped under plans being announced by the government on Monday.
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What’s gone wrong at the Co-op Bank? The key questions
The Co-op has a proud history, but after the resignation of its chairman, the Paul Flowers affair and the proposed financial rescue by US hedge funds, Channel 4 News looks at what the future holds.
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George Osborne hands former miners free coal
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.
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Gary Gibbon
Cost of living: are Tories playing on Labour’s pitch?
Across Westminster today I found quite a few coalition voices sighing that the government was yet again getting stuck into a week in which it appears to be dancing to Ed Miliband’s tune.
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Faisal Islam
Osborne finally achieves economic momentum
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.
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Economy grows at fastest rate for three years
Britain’s economy grows by 0.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2013, with all the main sectors showing a rise in activity.
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GDP figures confirm UK’s growing economy
The UK economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2013, the ONS announces.
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Gary Gibbon
Energy perfect storm
The announcement of Chinese investment in British nuclear power plants, a hike in electricity prices, warnings of lack of capacity – the energy policy debate will be a mighty saga for a long time.
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Gary Gibbon
Energy battles resume
All too soon, Ed Miliband’s wheeze on energy bills has sent the Lib Dems and the Tories into conflict with each other again.
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Come to Britain, Osborne tells China’s banks
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.
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Gary Gibbon
China defrosts; visas rewritten
George Osborne was meant to be in Beijing on his own, not sharing the stage with Boris Johnson. Why the double act? Gary Gibbon investigates.
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FactCheck: Osborne and Boris in China
The government has played down warnings that the Chinese telecoms giant could pose a threat to Britain’s cyber-security.
