Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
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Bottling up concerns over the price of imports.
There’s a lot of talk about a Brexit ‘divorce bill’ costing the UK tens of billions – we got two academics to check the facts.
Hammond has taken an oddly similar stance to former shadow chancellor Ed Balls: running a deficit and boosting infrastructure spending.
An ‘emergency budget’ may not be necessary but that doesn’t mean the UK will be awash with cash saved from its EU budget contributions.
The UK is witnessing its biggest cull of public sector jobs in half a century and hundreds of thousands of workers must make the transition to the private sector.
The upcoming emergency budget will offer the chancellor of exchequer, George Osborne, an opportunity to set up his stall as an unofficial candidate to the leadership of the Conservative Party. No other…
Osborne’s experience as chancellor from 2010-2015 should have taught him that he can’t directly control the deficit or surplus.
Osborne’s confidence in the Commons won’t mean much to hard up workers.
It might be that this budget proves to have been too clever by half.
As expected, chancellor George Osborne pulled a handful of small rabbits out of his hat as he announced his pre-electoral budget. Lowering the tax allowance, cutting taxes to middle-income earners together…
Austerity has not been a success for the Chancellor, but that won’t stop him from trying to paint is as such.
A Green Budget for 2015 was released recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The detailed report on social security spending shows that a future government would have to implement much deeper cuts…
In the first of a series of keynote speeches Prime Minister David Cameron identified the central theme of the Conservative Party’s 2015 general election manifesto: “to get Britain back to living within…
Remember the Maastricht criteria? No, I didn’t think so. Nor apparently do Britain’s political leaders, based on their manifestos for tackling the UK’s deficit. The Maastricht Criteria were the convergence…
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