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  • 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
    Coalescing or colluding?

    What kind of 'narrative' is the new post-election, post-budget coalition government trying to create, asks Simon Barrow, and what is its ratio of substance to spin, of new politics to old-fashioned collusion? Moreover, how will Labour and extra-parliamentary activists who question the underlying Westminster consensus respond?

  • 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
    Big society, small cash?

    We need to be vigilant to be sure that budget day is not also doomsday for local communities, especially the vulnerable for whom community and faith organisations exist, says Vaughan Jones, probing behind the government's 'big society' rhetoric and asking how the civil sector will be resourced and supported in a constrained market environment.

  • 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.

  • 22 Jun 2010
    Environmentalists not impressed with Osborne's gestures

    Environmental analysts are less than impressed with the green credentials of the government's emergency budget statement in the House of Commons today.

  • 22 Jun 2010
    Poor have missed out in Chancellor's plans, says Oxfam

    The government has missed an opportunity to raise more money to protect the poorest in the UK from spending cuts and VAT rises, and help tackle global poverty and climate change, says Oxfam.

  • 22 Jun 2010
    Poorest are picking up banking bill in Budget say tax campaigners

    Campaigners have said that the Chancellor's bank tax is 'disappointing' and that the budget is 'taking from the poor to give to the rich'.