Gary Gibbon
Osborne to EU: no dodging a new treaty
The Conservative party’s problems over EU policy are not confined to the backbenches – it has lots of work to do to persuade other EU nations of the need for a new treaty.
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Gary Gibbon
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George Osborne warns the EU to ‘reform or decline’
George Osborne emphasises Tory determination to reform the European Union, saying Europe is at risk of falling behind Asia’s economic titans.
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Gary Gibbon
Coalition hopes to get its kicks from minimum wage
On the minimum wage, the government is hoping to have something it will be able to point at that will allow it to say to voters that it is taking care of the less well paid.
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How many council tenants earn more than £60,000?
The chancellor wants to crack down on high earners who continue to live in council houses. Is this a real problem? And what is the government going to do about it?
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Tories split over Osborne’s welfare cuts strategy
Cracks in the government’s welfare strategy open up after allies of Iain Duncan Smith round on George Osborne for announcing a further £12bn in benefit cuts.
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Gary Gibbon
George Osborne speech: complacency, traps and bombshells
George Osborne said he wanted to warn about “a dangerous new complacency” that he’d sensed on the economy. Privately, he and others at the top of the Tory party think they may have contributed to this.
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‘The year of hard truths’: Osborne’s further cuts warning
Chancellor George Osborne reinforces his plans for lower spending – and warns that only further austerity measures can pay for tax cuts and better job prospects.
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Nick Clegg: Osborne’s cuts to welfare a ‘monumental mistake’
Nick Clegg criticises George Osborne’s plans to fix the British economy with deep cuts to the welfare budget, saying the chancellor is heaping the burden on those with the “narrowest shoulders”.
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FactCheck: unpicking the Autumn Statement
The devil is always in the detail but FactCheck is on hand to run the slide rule over the chancellor’s latest update on the health of the economy.
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Do the British feel the UK economy is on the mend?
The chancellor talked about how the government was all for “hard-working families”. But outside of Westminster what do people think? Are they feeling the economic recovery? C4 News goes to Lincoln.
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Osborne: austerity is working – but repair ‘far from over’
The chancellor says he is scrapping employers’ national insurance contribution for under 21s from April 2015 and insists his austerity measures are working, but says the hard work is not over yet.
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Osborne: State pension age to rise to 69 in 2040s
Autumn statement: George Osborne announces the widely anticipated raising of the state pension age.
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Generation game: young people to work for longer
Chancellor George Osborne raises the pension age to 69 in the autumn statement, but says we’re all in it together. Are young people being targeted unfairly in the name of economic recovery?
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Autumn statement 2013: you be the chancellor
What bright ideas would light up the UK economy for you? George Osborne has set out his plan for economic recovery, but Channel 4 News wanted to find out what people on the street would like to see.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Rates increase to be capped, but is it too little too late?
George Osborne is poised to offer a cap on the increase in business rates. But after months and months of stagnation, is it really going to be enough?
