George Osborne: budget will help ‘responsible people’ – video
The chancellor, George Osborne, defends the pensions overhaul announced in his 2014 budget
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The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, says a Tory advert publicising cuts to beer and bingo tax shows the Conservative party is out of touch
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IFS says 2014 budget promises based on uncertain savings forecasts
Institute for Fiscal Studies says that George Osborne's 'unspecified spending cuts' may leave projections for the public finances on an uncertain footingTax giveaways in the budget will be paid for by...
View ArticleBudget 2014 - IFS criticises Osborne's pensions plan: Politics live blog
Andrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including reaction to the 2014 budget and George Osborne’s morning interviewsAndrew Sparrow
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: Budget 2014
George Osborne's penultimate budget before the 2015 general election shook up the pensions industry and contained populist tax cuts on bingo and beer. But there were warnings too on the state of the...
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Forget the beer and bingo, this budget has a darker side | Hopi Sen
Cameron and Osborne claim to be fixing the roof. In reality, they sawed off their foot and then put up a tarpaulin. Labour desperately needs to articulate thisThis week's budget contained one major...
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Pension pots 'can be used to buy Lamborghinis', says minister
Steve Webb says government doesn't mind if wealthy people near retirement blow savings on sports cars, in budget defenceAffluent people approaching retirement should be free to blow their pension pot...
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The IFS post-budget analysis comes with tart words for George Osborne | Larry...
By Institute for Fiscal Studies standards, the pummelling the chancellor received was restrained but there were still gripesThe day after a budget is tough for a chancellor. He's tired. He has to get...
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Two thirds of EU firms would repatriate jobs if regulations were simpler
A snapshot of major companies across the EU has found that the trend for placing operations abroad is waningAlmost a quarter of European companies plan to repatriate their foreign operations in the...
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An economist's answer to the youth employment crisis in Africa
Governments need to encourage entrepreneurship and provide job-focused training to help the millions of young unemployed people on the continent, says OECDThis is a tough time to be young in Africa....
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Budget 2014: the government's spending and income visualised
How much money does the UK have coming in this year - and where will the spending be? Take a look at this visualisation, published the Guardian's Budget 2014 supplement, to see what the government's...
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Did Nasa fund 'civilisation collapse' study, or not? | Nafeez Ahmed
Journalistic standards won't be upheld by attempting to discredit science we don't likeEnvironmental journalism's watchdog strikesBlogger Keith Kloor, who writes for Discover magazine, claims that my...
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Monetarism is the living dead of economic theory – let's kill it off | Philip...
The Bank of England suddenly looks capable of doing what the government can't: consigning monetarism to the pastIn September 1976 the Labour government, headed by James Callaghan, approached the IMF...
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You don't need to be Einstein to see how Osborne's theorem is flawed
While new observations shake the world of astrophysics, the chancellor regards it as a discovery that 'we don't invest or export enough'We now understand from astrophysicists that the cosmos began with...
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Don't bank on pre-election giveaways: Osborne believes austerity is a winner
The last budget before a poll is normally packed with sweeteners for voters. But next year is likely to be differentIt is March 2015. The general election is just six weeks away as George Osborne...
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B&Q appears to have nailed its recovery
Kingfisher promised a DIY job on reviving B&Q. Has it worked, or is it just a Screwfix fix?Britain's husbands (if you excuse the generalisation) are wearily accustomed to cynicism from their wives,...
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A budget to win grey votes … and capture the spirit of Thatcherism
George Osborne's pensions revolution aims to lift the 'dead hand' of the state from people's lives. Is it a masterstroke or will investment freedom allow older pensioners to run out of money?Not since...
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The Osbornomics of Barking Riverside
Greater London's largest housing development scheme remains stalled by an austerity mentalityHis big pal Boris Johnson talked it up, their political opponents talked it down. But even if George Osborne...
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Currency union for independent Scotland wins backing
Pro-independence lobby pounces on Beijing economist's report in move to reopen arguments over workability of UK currency unionKey reasons put forward by the UK government for rejecting a currency union...
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Help to Buy scheme used to purchase more than 17,000 homes, figures reveal
Downing Street releases statistics days after George Osborne announced the scheme will be extended until 2020More than 17,000 homes have been bought under the Government's Help to Buy scheme, according...
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