Emergency Budget audio: Caroline Lucas
Green party leader and new MP Caroline Lucas gives her response to the 2010 emergency Budget:
Emergency Budget audio: Margaret Hodge
Public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge gives her reaction to the 2010 emergency Budget:
Sketch: Pallid Osborne’s horror Budget
The nation’s politics descended into bitterness as queasy, uneasy MPs listened to George Osborne’s emergency Budget. By Alex Stevenson The chancellor must have dreamed of this moment ever since he first became shadow chancellor five long years ago. Little did he realise then he would be slashing rather than tinkering. “It pays for the past […]
Poll suggests need for cuts sinking in
By politics.co.uk staff Politicians’ repeated messages about the need for spending cuts appears to be winning over the public. A poll for Reuters by Ipsos Mori found 58% acknowledged a ‘real need to cut spending on public services’ to pay off Britain’s high national debt. That number compares to 49% in March. It suggests repeated […]
Video: George Osborne on the ‘road to ruin’
Chancellor George Osborne outlines his fears about the “road to ruin” if “determined and concerted action” are not taken in Tuesday’s emergency Budget:
Osborne: ‘Road to ruin’ Britain needs cuts
By politics.co.uk staff Failure to quickly address Britain’s public finances imbalances would set the country on the “road to ruin”, George Osborne has warned. The chancellor told The Andrew Marr Show Britain would see higher interest rates, rising unemployment and declining living standards if the “truly awful financial situation” he has inherited from Labour ministers […]
Ed Miliband turns on ‘cavalier’ Lib Dems
By politics.co.uk staff Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband has hit out at the “crypto-Tory” Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, as huge spending cuts in Tuesday’s Budget loom. The shadow energy secretary said in an interview given to the Independent on Sunday newspaper that part of the reason formal coalition talks between the Lib Dems and […]
Waiting for the cuts
By Alex Stevenson George Osborne’s emergency Budget is being scrutinised by Office of Budget Responsibility chief Sir Alan Budd ahead of its delivery on Tuesday. Estimates of the spending cuts expected to be introduced by the chancellor range from £30 billion to £80 billion, as the coalition government bids to tackle the £150 billion-plus structural […]
Sketch: Dazed and bewildered by some Labour has-beens
Diffident and abashed, Danny Alexander looked like a six-foot schoolboy who has forgotten his homework as he faced the despatch box for the first time. By Alex Stevenson Britain’s new chief secretary to the Treasury is a talented and clever individual. He was thought to be well-deserving of the Scottish secretary post, but the nation’s […]
Alexander culls Labour’s last projects
By Alex Stevenson Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has cancelled or suspended 24 of the Labour government’s programmes it approved this year, in his first appearance at the despatch box for the coalition. David Laws’ replacement waved through 193 of the 217 projects Labour ministers had backed in the final months of their […]
