This Wednesday will be the first opportunity for a Conservative majority government to deliver a full budget announcement since 1997. George Osborne has waited a long time for this moment, having suffered the friction with his Liberal Democrat colleagues for the last five years, tinkering with his every announcement and proposal. The Chancellor is well known for his love of […]
Clare Ambrosino discusses why the one hundred entrepreneurs who petitioned Ed Milliband are right to fear a Labour Government. In the run up to this most particular of elections, in the scrabble for votes, it is easy to get waylaid by the love life of the “happy warrior” or debates on kitchens. This may all be very interesting from a human point of […]
In this article, Luke Springthorpe argues that it is time for the business rates structure to be fundamentally reformed, and George Osborne’s Budget presents an ideal opportunity for such a review to be announced. When the Conservatives entered office in 2010, they were quick to place localism at the heart of their agenda and within a year had passed the […]
By Steven George-Hilley The Spending Review was always going to be a tough sell for George Osborne. Economic progress has been slower than expected, health and international aid budgets have been ring-fenced meaning that savings would have to come from already hard hit departments. This should have been the perfect opportunity for Ed Balls to remind voters of his ‘Too […]
