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23 Mar 2011

The wrong economic telescope, chancellor

Once again, as the budget looms, the government is looking down the wrong end of the economic telescope.
23 Mar 2011

Government accused of 'squeezing livelihoods' ahead of budget

Government policy is contributing to toughest livelihood squeeze in decades, says the Trades Union Congress ahead of the Chancellor's budget statement today.
23 Mar 2011

Say sorry to claimants for false claims, churches tell UK chancellor

Three church leaders have called on the UK government to apologise for false claims about claimants and to correct their figures in the Budget.
10 Feb 2011

Scottish Greens attack cuts and propose alternative budget

Scottish Green MSPs yesterday voted against the SNP administration's budget, accusing a "grand cuts coalition" of backing Conservative policies.
27 Jun 2010

Cutting services, funding war

David Cameron has tried to use Armed Forces Day to whip up support for the unpopular war in Afghanistan, but the ruinous cost of ineffective military spending is clearly at odds with his government's rhetoric about the urgent need for cuts.
24 Jun 2010

Leading analysts say Budget is risky as well regressive

The UK coalition government has been left on the back foot in defending its emergency budget after established analysts proclaimed its social impact regressive and its economic approach flawed.
23 Jun 2010

An unbalanced budget
23 Jun 2010

Christians criticise budget for imposing austerity on the poorest

Policy experts and commentators from the churches and Christian organisations have criticised the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government for a budget which hits the most vulnerable hardest.
22 Jun 2010

On a collision course with austerity

Today the public, and particularly the Liberal Democrats, appear nonchalant as George Osborne steers the ship of state straight towards the Austerity Iceberg.
22 Jun 2010

Government accused of imposing cuts through ideology not economics

The Government's emergency budget will have taken a gigantic £40 billion out of the economy by 2014-15 at a time when the recovery is fragile, and cuts will hit those with fewest resources hardest, say critics.

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