Gary Gibbon
Balls, creches and capital spending
Parents welcome the pledge by Ed Balls for more state funded childcare – but can Labour also pass the ‘economic credibility test’?
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Capital spending repentance?
The government will be trumpeting new money for infrastructure projects, but there’s no disguising the bad news coming down the track.
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NHS funding: is the government breaking its promise?
Labour accuses the government of breaking its promise to increase spending on the health service in real terms. Are they right?
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Michael Gove’s schools spending mix-up
The Education Secretary says the Coalition is spending more than £16bn over the next four years on school building – just under twice what was spent in the first eight years of Labour. Is he right?
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An average tale of waste?
On tuesday I parked my car on a pay and display bay and used one of those meters at which you can use a debit card. The machine took the six pounds from my card (yes, ludicrous, but that’s London) but then refused to print a ticket.
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Why did the UK have to borrow so much?
The claim “Labour’s leadership candidates say that spending was not the problem. It was taxes. Nonsense. In just two financial years up to the election, public spending rose by 10 per cent in real terms. That’s a rise after inflation of £59 billion.” Chris Huhne MP, Climate Change Secretary, press conference attacking “Labour’s legacy”, 11…
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Jon Snow
Back to School
Yesterday I dashed out from work to give the leaving prizes at the primary school where my own children started their education. It’s a dauntingly old Victorian building containing some 400 extremely diverse pupils.
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Ask the Chancellors: tax cuts, spending, unemployment
Channel 4 News FactCheck examines the claims in Ask the Chancellors.
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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
The Lib Dems, the deficit and a possible hung parliament
Nick Clegg may have blown open the key debate on the deficit in this election. In or out of government, he says, he will not back the “economic masochism” of starting fiscal retrenchment this year. This happens to be one of the few areas of clear blue water between Labour and Conservatives going in to…