05 Apr 2012
| by Ian Monk
person would have spotted the 'granny tax' and 'pastygate' disasters before the hapless Chancellor went ...
29 Mar 2012
| by Anthony Hilton
The decision by Chancellor George Osborne to cut the top rate of tax in this month's Budget was always going to be controversial. Inevitably, saying on the one hand that the yield from the 50p rate ...
shortly after the Chancellor, on the same show, had specifically claimed that the Glaxo decision ...
22 Mar 2012
| by John Woodcock
purdah.
In the past, more than one chancellor felt compelled to resign for failing to keep the lid on proposals. If the same standards were applied in more recent decades, successive chancellors would have had ...
media.
According to this survey , the Chancellor George Osborne faces a relatively critical native ...
15 Mar 2012
| by George Eustice
the Chancellor has delivered his speech, the entire press gallery in the House of Commons empties to go for a ...
08 Mar 2012
| by John Woodcock
Budget negotiations are rightly never a walk in the park as urgent priorities compete for finite resources, and the last Labour government's Budget-making was not exactly a model of good governance. As chancellor, Gordon Brown and his Treasury team kept the process so tight that even Tony Blair struggled ...
26 Jan 2012
| by John Woodcock
chancellor similarly determined to get the message to the public that a future Labour government ...
15 Sep 2011
| by John Woodcock
The TUC threatening Conservative ministers with waves of co-ordinated strikes; Eurosceptic backbenchers muttering ominously about betrayal and rebellion on Europe; schools and hospitals feeling the squeeze; and a Tory Chancellor holding out against changing economic course despite a growing chorus ...
28 Jul 2011
| by John Woodcock
the figures went wrong the Chancellor blamed the snow. Maybe this time they will try to pin it on William ...
24 Mar 2011
| by George Eustice
The Budget speech is one of those set-piece events that belong to the Government. The Chancellor should use it carefully to make a statement about his priorities. There has been much speculation ...
, as Chancellor, ruthlessly used the occasion of the Budget to dominate the news agenda and wrong-foot his ...