David Cameron launches 2015 general election poster
The Conservatives’ election poster states that under five years of coalition rule the government has helped 1.75 million people find work, helped create 760,000 new businesses and cut the deficit in half.
- 2 January 2015
Chancellor Osborne gets thumbs up from industry
Chancellor George Osborne has received a broadly welcoming reaction from industry following his Autumn Statement. That's bad news for Labour and good news for Conservatives ahead of the 2015 election
- 4 December 2014
Mrs T would say no to a nation of gamblers
Allowing direct access to pension pots is irresponsible, writes a former adviser to Lady Thatcher
- 24 May 2014
UKIP's stance on welfare a better fit with the public mood
If the Tories really believe that every cut to welfare will be welcomed, no matter how savage, they have misread the British people. UKIP’s competition-based, compassionate politics is a better fit with the public mood
- 23 January 2014
Scrap the minimum wage, don't let fake UK Conservatives raise it
UK Chancellor wants to raise the minimum wage. If he was a real Conservative he'd scrap it altogether. But they're all fakes, grovelling to the Guardian and the BBC
- 16 January 2014
Spending Review: A fiscal non-event
What was most striking about this week's spending review was its crushing indifference
- 28 June 2013
The politics of the spending statement
Living within a 2 percent increase in overall budgets will be much easier if the reform and efficiency drives set out by the government work well
- 27 June 2013
Here lie the remains of Tory modernisation
Cameron has failed to detoxify the party and Conservatives are panicking before the reckoning that awaits them in 2015
- 24 June 2013
'Unthinkables' in the City of London
What does Osborne need to do if he wants to avoid the ignominy not only of suffering credit downgrades, but of being the Chancellor who presided over London losing its billing as the world's premiere financial centre?
- 2 May 2013
Tory MP names four potential Cameron successors
Mark Field, Member of Parliament for Westminster, has named four MPs who he thinks are ready to lead the Conservative Party in a post-Cameron era
- 24 April 2013
The worst government since... the last one!
Growth is occurring, says Robin Mitchinson, it's just that this government can't seem to foster it...
- 1 April 2013
Why is David Blanchflower so scared of the truth?
With his affected rudeness and terror of reasonable discussion with anyone who might disagree with him, Blanchflower is a sort of pound store Paul Krugman
- 26 March 2013
UK steals vital lead on Europe in shale gas stakes
If the US gas revolution hasn't already proved shale is a no-brainer, George Osborne's green-lighting of the UK version is about to confirm it
- 25 March 2013
Beware subprime
The Chancellor's critics now allege that he is seeking to invent US subprime-style lending. This need not be the case
- 22 March 2013
A budget of sound bites not substance
This budget did little more than tinker around the economy’s edges. Osborne desperately needs to take tougher decisions
- 21 March 2013
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