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Budget 2013: Osborne edges the deficit down – but is it smoke and mirrors?
The chancellor is able to claim that borrowing will fall slightly this year and next, but critics say it's just creative accountingIn the autumn statement, George Osborne pulled out all the stops to...
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Budget 2013: Osborne aims to swing marginal seats with populist budget
Embattled chancellor delivered help for homebuyers, motorists and beer drinkers as he aims to temper economic gloomAn embattled George Osborne delivered government help for homebuyers, motorists and...
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The budget: giving, taking - but not growing | Editorial
No matter how cunningly Osborne selects who he wants to protect, large parts of the population are going to get hurtGeorge Osborne's budgets follow a trajectory. It runs thus: Summer 2010, fiscal pain...
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Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946?
How bad is the deficit really? We bring you all the data going back to the 1940s• Get the dataHow bad is Britain's deficit? The latest set of figures show that Britain's public finances showed a much...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne claims government is making progress on economy – video
Speaking a day after announcing his budget, chancellor George Osborne says the government must take difficult decisions
View ArticleEd Balls: George Osborne's budget is 'road to nowhere' – video
Ed Balls says George Osborne's budget helps the wealthy by cutting taxes for the rich and cutting benefits
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Savings: budget was bad news for beleaguered Brits
Rising inflation and the Funding for Lending scheme have seen interest rates plummet, and the future doesn't look much betterIt's a truly miserable time to be a saver in the UK, and several pieces of...
View ArticleBudget reaction and George Osborne's interviews: Politics live blog
Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including reaction to the budget and George Osborne's interviews about itAndrew Sparrow
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The jobseekers bill: a shameful retroactive stitch-up | Eric Metcalfe
The coalition claims to be proud of our legal sector, but after the Cait Reilly case it has simply rewritten the law in its own favourLast Thursday, the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, lauded the...
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Increasing taxes during an economic crisis makes perfect sense | Robert Shiller
Focusing on debt-friendly stimulus rather than austerity does not mean that citizens must endure further financial hardshipWith much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful...
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Budget 2013: IFS warns of £9bn tax rises after election
George Osborne's spending cuts will leave huge gap in government finances, says the Institute for Fiscal StudiesTax rises of up to £9bn – equal to a 2p increase in the basic rate of income tax – could...
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The budget: cuts as far as the eye can see | Editorial
Just before the general election of 2010, Mervyn King reportedly declared the upcoming poll would be 'a good election to lose'Just a week before the general election of 2010, a striking warning from...
View ArticleSteve Bell on the Help to Buy scheme - cartoon
Ministers fail to clarify whether scheme to help first-time buyers could be exploited by those wanting more propertiesSteve Bell
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: Cyprus; the budget; and press regulation
George Osborne pitched his budget this week as one for those who aspire to work hard and own their own homes. His controversial "help-to-buy" plan harked back to the days of his hero Margaret Thatcher,...
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What we need is an economic revolution, but what would it look like? | Zoe...
I've been going on protests since I was young but I've never chanted about interest rates or debt restructuring deals"Social change is not mechanical," Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge economist and...
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Ed Miliband says government has no ideas left on economy
Labour leader says David Cameron and his ministers have resigned themselves to a 'lost decade' for BritainEd Miliband has accused the government of running out of ideas on the economy and said Labour...
View ArticleEd Miliband: 2013 budget ‘leading’ Britain towards a ‘lost decade’ - video
Ed Miliband delivers a speech to the People's Policy Forum in Birmingham on Saturday
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Bad week in prospect for Kazakhstan, chancellors and Kingfisher
The economic situation is looking bleak in Britain, France – and even in the booming commodities sectorThere's a cracking old tale about the FTSE 100 miner, Kazakhmys, involving it paying a £30,000...
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A budget that revives demand for beer, but not much else
The coalition is suffering the worst of both worlds: excoriated by the right for continuing to borrow, but not borrowing enough to bring about a recoveryA friend in the "penny off a pint" pub told me...
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The chancellor is for turning after all. And, whisper it, he's switching to...
Faced with the failure of austerity policies, he is about to quietly try out some rather interventionist ideasThe early consensus was that the budget was a political success if an economic non-event....
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