Economic policy
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Review headed by Sir David Dalton suggests companies could be contracted to manage publicly-funded hospitals, pointing to Spain as example
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Politics Weekly George Osborne's autumn statement, Gordon Brown and Jeremy Thorpe – Politics Weekly podcast
Aditya Chakrabortty, Larry Elliott and Michael White join Tom Clark to discuss George Osborne's autumn statement, Gordon Brown's retirement and the death of former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe
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George Osborne tells John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today that BBC reports are rewind of 2010 cutbacks coverage that wrongly predicted return to ‘George Orwell’ world
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How the country could look in six years’ time if spending cuts and austerity measures continue
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The chancellor has accused his critics of hyperbole, but his autumn statement leaves him little room for manoeuvre
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Business secretary pushes for more data from Office for Budget Responsibility before Commons vote on new budget charter
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Gaby Hinsliff: It’s a warning light flashing. In a healthy society parents would be happy to let their children cope on their own
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Editorial: George Osborne’s plans would roll back the state to the 1930s, and puff up household debt beyond bubble levels. It is neither a desirable nor a likely mix – yet it reigns unchallenged
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Andrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the reaction to the 2014 autumn statement, including George Osborne’s interviews and the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ briefings
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Alan Harding: If devolution is to mean anything it must be done in a way that ensures true economic rebalancing with London’s super-region
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The chancellor says there will be 'difficult decisions ahead' as the government tries to create economic prosperity
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Chancellor’s plan could require cuts to police, local government and justice amounting to a further £60bn by 2019-20
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Spending watchdog says more austerity needed to get deficit cut on track after chancellor misses short-term targets
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Office for Budget Responsibility expecting higher growth of 3% and 2.4% this year and next, but it will fall to 2.2% in 2016
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George Osborne targets voters who decide election but opposition believes he is still vulnerable
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Editorial: The chancellor poses as steadfast, but he continually rewrites his ‘long-term plan’ and has not come clean about the dreadful consequences of the endless cutting buried in the smallprint
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Firms report hiring more staff to cope with a rise in workloads as business grows much higher than City forecasts
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George Osborne gives his autumn statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday
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George Osborne says economy will grow by 3% this year but is still concerned by the size of the budget deficit
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Chancellor says shakeup will cut tax for 98% of house purchases while raising money from those buying most expensive homes
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Opec, the oil cartel, believed it could help production. Instead, it ended up hurting itself as well as the Russian rouble, energy stocks, infrastructure development and more
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Michael White's political briefing This isn’t an autumn statement, it’s an early advert for the 2015 election
The coalition has been a modest success, but it’s off the rails on the deficit and debt reduction. Let the fingerpointing commence -
George Monbiot: Scotland is breaking the cover-up that stifles our political thought. Bring the Highland Spring south
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Chancellor highlights plans to clamp down on tax loopholes used by tech firms and will vow to rein in debt faster than Labour
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Letters: The future of Royal Mail was pawned for short-term political posturing and free-market dogma
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Jonathan Freedland: His predecessor was always seen as the winner, but Brown retires having saved the pound, the global economy and the United Kingdom
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Polly Toynbee: Chancellor George Osborne will disguise the harm he means to do in the autumn statement, but Labour and the Lib Dems are trapped in me-too territory
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Politics live with Andrew Sparrow Patrick McLoughlin's Commons statement on the £15bn roads investment: Politics Live blog
Andrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen -
Lib Dem leader accuses George Osborne of trying to balance Britain’s economy ‘on the backs of the working-age poor’
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David Owen: The coalition’s 2012 health reform act was disastrous. It can be overturned – but time is running out
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Editorial: Binding the next government to eliminate the UK’s structural budget deficit by 2018 is clever only in the pejorative sense
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What union bosses, analysts and thinktanks said after George Osborne’s emergency budget in 2010 and what they say now
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CBI says growth remained stable up to November and has returned to sustainable levels – but there are hurdles ahead
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Chancellor’s extra NHS cash is equivalent to rummaging down the back of the sofa for change to feed the electricity meter
Topics
- Economics
- George Osborne
- Autumn statement 2014
- Budget
- Tax and spending
- Conservatives
- Office for Budget Responsibility
- Budget deficit
- Government borrowing
- Economic growth (GDP)
- Tax
- Liberal-Conservative coalition
- Ed Balls
- Stamp duty
- Labour
- Public finance
- Public services policy
- Economic recovery
- Property
- David Cameron
Who do you trust more: George Osborne or the BBC?
George Osborne has accused the BBC of using hyperbole in its coverage of spending cuts. The BBC said its coverage was fair and balanced, and that it asked the questions its audience wanted answers to. Which of the two would you put your trust in?