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Any concerns that the economic growth we saw in the summer would not last more than a couple of quarters have been dispelled by recent data. Private sector surveys in October – the purchasing manager indices – point to a further increase in economic activity. The PMI...

Osborne may gloat on Friday, but three years of stagnation will have to be paid for On Friday official figures will almost certainly show that the economy has been growing for the third successive quarter. As a consequence, expect more than a degree of triumphalism in...

George Osborne’s speech at Conservative party conference last week contained little content but much underlying confidence. While both David Cameron and Osborne have been wary of calling the recovery before it has become sustained, they must both feel a great sense of...

Some way into Michael Meacher’s manifesto for a ‘renaissance of Britain’ he quotes Winston Churchill on finance. In a historical irony given his record as chancellor, Churchill would rather that finance was the servant of industry than its master. At the end of The...