Coalition catches up to the disarray of their economic policies

The new evidence supports it: the Chancellor should scrap his ridiculous austerity plans and invest in jobs. It hasn't taken long for the OBR's forecast, published last Wednesday, to look out of date. Downward...

George Osborne's Autumn Debt crisis Statement

The Chancellor cuts UK growth forecasts for the next four years and says it will meet its budget goals by the end of this parliament, although warned the eurozone could drag the UK into recession. ...

100 top economists tell George Osborne: we must turn to Plan B

A hundred leading economists have made an impassioned call for the government to step back from the brink of a new economic crisis and back a Plan B to save existing jobs and create new ones, amid growing...

UK economic growth picks up to 0.5%

Better than expected figures for the UK economy dumfounded the experts and made George Osborne's slashing plan A policies look like they are bringing in a small positive result ........ The UK economy grew by 0.5%...