budget Articles

Yesterday's’s budget needed to provide an economic and political narrative for the voters of middle England who gave David Cameron the benefit of the doubt – with many misgivings – three years ago, and who have tolerated grim times since. Instead, it reinforced the...

The facts have changed but George Osborne has failed to change his mind. Our economy is set to grow at less than a quarter of the rate he previously predicted it would and by the time of the next election will likely remain smaller than before the financial crash. The...

George Osborne is a mountaineer, scaling Mount General Election 2015. It was all going broadly to plan until budget 2012. Today he sought to recover the ground lost through the missteps, especially the cut to the top rate of income tax, of a year ago. There was no...

George Osborne gave his budget speech having seen his economic credibility eroded over the past year, although he remains in a stronger position than the circumstances suggest he ought to be. Growth was promised as the reward for harsh austerity but it has yet to...