economy Articles

George Osborne and Alistair Darling have stated that if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union, there will need to be an emergency budget. Not surprisingly, their claim has been criticised by the Leave campaign, but the central point is surely correct...

Alison McGovern: Thank you for showing me lovely Newcastle, it's been really great. Clearly people here have voted Labour, we had gains last year in 2015 when we didn't win nationally. If you had to say, if I had to force you to say why you think more people came out...

Kitty Ussher has been looking at the UK economy through rose-tinted spectacles in her surprisingly over-optimistic assessment of Britain’s growth prospects under George Osborne. Ussher says that ‘the economy is in good shape’ and that the Office for Budget...

The leaked Panama Papers shone a light on the murky world of tax havens and will have far-reaching implications across the world. People are rightly angered that a super-rich elite strive to avoid or evade paying their taxes. David Cameron’s use of an offshore trust...