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How pension reform can help savers and boost growth | Gregg McClymont
The government can allow more people to use the Nest pension scheme despite its claims to the contraryLast December, Ben Jackson and I wrote Cameron's Trap. We argued that just as in the 1930s and...
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UK economy faces long and winding road to recovery, warns Mervyn King | Larry...
Bank of England governor swaps usual sporting metaphor for Beatles song as he outlines Britain's gloomy prospectsFor once Sir Mervyn King struggled to find an appropriate sporting metaphor to sum up...
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National Health Action is fighting to reclaim the NHS | Colin Leys
The launch of a new political party will make the NHS an election issue and test Labour's commitment to the service it foundedThe launch of a new political party – National Health Action– on Thursday...
View ArticleBank of England governor warns of triple-dip recession - video
Sir Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, says the UK economy could shrink in the final quarter of 2012
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Bank of England hints at quantitative easing as growth falters again
Sir Mervyn King halves growth forecast for next year to 1% and warns outlook looks weak up to general election in 2015The Bank of England has hinted at fresh moves to boost Britain's economy after...
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Austerity is here to stay, and we'd better get used to it | Martin Kettle
We think we know all about the rise of Asia and the decline of the west. But we've barely begun to grasp what it really meansAs workers across the European Union went on protest strike today, it was...
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The eurozone is officially back in recession, the latest official data from Eurostat showsNick Mead
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Can London's Tech City ever rival Silicon Valley?
Coca-Cola offers an important lesson for east London's economic dream, but councils should act nowIs east London's digital revolution really happening or is it just a PR exercise? There is certainly a...
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Downgrade our AAA rating? Moody's has become part of the problem | Duncan Weldon
It was ideological politicians and fearmongering ratings agencies that launched this damaging austerity experimentThe credit ratings agency Moody's has announced that it will review the UK's top AAA...
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Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science
Business secretary to deliver speech insisting that coalition focuses on maintaining long-term growthVince Cable will publicly call on Monday for the chancellor to drop any plans for cuts in spending...
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George Osborne sticks to his core economic policy: blame Labour
The chancellor is pinning the government's re-electoral hopes on voters believing that Labour is responsible for the mess he has createdFor some time now our chancellor of the exchequer has come across...
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NUS survey reveals parents' fears for young people
Gloom over UK's economic prospects increases parents' concern at the lack of opportunities for their childrenFour out of five parents fear their children will leave home later than they did, in a sign...
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Bank of England governor race suggests Paul Tucker's luck is in
Despite being dragged into the Libor scandal, Mervyn King's deputy Paul Tucker appears to be his most likely replacementIn terms of gender balance at the top, the Bank of England is as bad as UK plc....
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Protect industrial base from spending cuts, says Sir John Parker
Anglo American boss says health and education cash must not be ringfenced at expense of research and infrastructureThe foundations of Britain's industrial base, including transport links and research...
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Cameron hits out at 'bureaucratic rubbish' holding back UK economy
PM tells CBI that Whitehall decision-making must become more pro-business and lashes out at judicial reviews halting infrastructure projectsBritain needs to clear out the "bureaucratic rubbish"...
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More than one in 10 high street shops left empty
Northern Ireland, Wales and the north record highest vacancy rates as retailers call for business rate freeze in 2013More than one in 10 shops in the UK's town centres were empty in October as...
View ArticleWill blitz spirit get Britain out of economic strife?
David Cameron has said that Britain is 'in the economic equivalent of war'. Do you think evoking the spirit of the second world war is a useful strategy against the current economic malaise?
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Ed Miliband is ignoring British people – they want to leave the EU | Dan Hannan
A majority of those in Britain recognise that the EU is a failed and dwindling customs union – if only political leaders listenedWe're not "sleepwalking towards exit from the EU", Ed Miliband. We've...
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Cameron's 'growth first' strategy shows a government running on empty
This insistence on growth is old hat. We can't go on prioritising a failed banking system at the expense of people and planetSeveral plausible reactions stalk David Cameron's pledge to put "growth...
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