comprenhensive spending review Articles

Labour must rediscover a zeal for public service reform, argues Sonia Sodha The June spending round set out the extra cuts each government department will need to find in 2015 to meet George Osborne’s trajectory for public spending. It is a grim settlement for public...

The long-awaited spending review was a depressing day for our public services. The announcement put the detail to the cuts to 2015-16 spending that were promised in the budget in March. For Labour, there were no real surprises and we had finally invested some time and...

This day was not meant to happen. The 2010 spending review was supposed to take us through this parliament and to the end of austerity. That terminus is as far away now as it was then. The deficit has not closed for want of cuts but of growth. Precisely as Ed Balls...

It is a year on from the spending review – are we asking the right questions? The first anniversary of the coalition government 2010 spending review falls this week. Social, political and economic onlookers are gearing up to assess whether, as George Osborne said on...