Gary Gibbon
Tax credits and Cameron and Osborne’s different horizons
David Cameron has made much of how the Commons has passed the tax credit changes and the Lords were defying the elected chamber when they voted against them on Monday.
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George Osborne: what UK wants from new EU deal
George Osborne sets out what the UK hopes to achieve from its EU renegotiation, saying that countries that are not members of the euro should not be discriminated against.
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Gary Gibbon
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Tax credits: Osborne says reforms will continue
Chancellor George Osborne says tax credit reforms will go ahead, despite the government’s dramatic defeat in the Lords on cuts for millions of low-income families.
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FactCheck Q&A: the tax credit crunch
The Lords are debating whether to scupper George Osborne’s latest change to tax credits. What’s it all about?
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Gary Gibbon
Lords debate tax credits: showdown, climbdown or just a distraction?
“People are just frightened,” one Tory MP said. He likened the atmosphere of fear to Gordon Brown’s domination of Labour MPs ahead of his succession to the party leadership.
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China pays £6bn for nuclear power station stake
China agrees to invest £6bn for a 33.5 per cent stake of a nuclear power station to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Critics have complained that the project does not represent value for money.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron tries to return to his liberal Conservatism mission
Long marchers from the 2005 Cameron leadership bid will hope it’s a return to his original programme of work, but he now faces divisive and headline-hogging battles.
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Gary Gibbon
George ‘Power To The People’ Osborne?
The prime minister and the chancellor are joined at the hip in a programme to own the centre ground and to shift it to the right at the same time.
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Gary Gibbon
Is George Osborne changing the shape of the state?
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
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Conservatives ‘hell-bent on damage’ – SNP spokesperson
Hannah Bardell, the SNP’s work and employment spokesman, accuses the Conservatives of being “hell bent on damaging society” over George Osborne’s cuts plans.
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Gary Gibbon
Osborne claims victory over euro fund row
The Treasury says it’s secured a deal that stops the European Commission exposing the UK to potential future costs if Greece defaults on a new bridging loan.
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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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FactCheck: the summer budget – what George Osborne isn’t telling you
A “lower-welfare, lower tax” budget, said the Chancellor. As usual, the small print didn’t quite match the rhetoric…
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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.
