Economic policy

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• Marbles at noon, ya boo sucks, and other assurances of cogent governance

  22 Oct 2014: Huffs, puffs and bickering transform Prime Minister’s Questions into something like a drawn-out election campaign

• Bank of England committee voted 7-2 to keep interest rates steady

  22 Oct 2014: Premature tightening in monetary policy could leave the UK vulnerable to shocks, say majority of MPC members in October

• Devo max and giving power to cities will boost UK productivity – thinktank

  22 Oct 2014: Devolving tax and immigration decisions to metropolitan areas and fuller powers for Scotland could lift economy ‘by 5%’

• Breaking the spell of the Tories’ fairytale economics

  21 Oct 2014: Letters: Labour should recognise that, whatever the problems besetting the UK, shortage of money is not one of them. What is needed is the clear political will to tax unearned wealth fairly

• Government borrowing 10% higher than last year

  21 Oct 2014: Government spending pushed borrowing last month to £11.8bn, £1.6bn higher than September 2013 and £1bn higher than City forecasts

• Tyne and Wear deregulation U-turn angers bus firms

  21 Oct 2014: After long consultation, regional authority to counter reforms brought in by Thatcher government

• Government borrowing: self-employed can’t ride to Osborne’s rescue

  21 Oct 2014: Phillip Inman: A bigger economy was supposed to mean profitable firms paying more tax. And more employment was supposed to push up income tax receipts

• Sir John Hoskyns obituary

  20 Oct 2014: Businessman who became the influential head of Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street policy unit

• Ed Balls seeks to reassure London homeowners over mansion tax plans

  20 Oct 2014: Shadow chancellor says £2m threshold could be raised if house prices continue going up and says less wealthy can delay paying

• David Cameron vows to create 3m apprenticeships

  20 Oct 2014: Cut to welfare cap and removal of housing benefit from 18- to 21-year-olds on jobseeker’s allowance will pay for new scheme

• Hung parliament following the 2015 general election ‘would hurt economy’

  20 Oct 2014: Item Club warns growth and business investment may be squeezed as businesses are nervous over political uncertainty

• Royal Mail to recruit 19,000 people to help with Christmas rush

  20 Oct 2014: Newly privatised postal operator will offer the temporary roles between November and January

• The unending economic crisis makes us feel powerless – and paranoid

  19 Oct 2014: Paul Mason: The sense that there is no way out is destroying our confidence in dealing with risk

• Why did Britain’s political class buy into the Tories’ economic fairytale?

  19 Oct 2014: Ha-Joon Chang: Falling wages, savage cuts and sham employment expose the recovery as bogus. Without a new vision we’re heading for social conflict

• Bleak figures show a relentless slide towards a low-pay Britain

  19 Oct 2014: Wage protesters marched over the greatest slump seen in real pay for 150 years, last Saturday, but it is the march of technological advance that is driving a wedge between the country’s highest and lowest paid workers

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