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• Tory efficiency

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 136
  Gordon Brown has been speaking about his passion for public sector efficiency, which must have Mr Tony rolling about laughing in Azerbaijan or wherever he’s coining it this morning. The Tories have produced their own spot of efficiency in response, namely the setting up of a shadow productivity advisory board which ...
  12 hours ago

• Tories plan to back Labour bank bonus tax

  
  Next Left — Authority: 579
  So reports the BBCs Robert Peston : What the Chancellor has in mind - and what may be announced in Wednesdays pre-budget report - is not a classic windfall tax, which would be levied on banks profits. Instead it would be a super-tax on bonuses over a certain level paid to British based investment bankers. I am ...
  1 day ago

• The PBR could be the best Tory PPB ever

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 136
  Please, do not be distracted by all this guff about a windfall on bankers and their bonuses. There are plenty of arguments it, but it will not be the most significant outcome of the PBR. The heavy briefing about windfall taxes is smoke, blown in our faces to disguise a wider attack on wealth and [...]
  1 day ago

• George Osborne refuses to rule out a windfall tax on bankers bonuses

  
  PlayPolitical.com - Conservative Party — Authority: 518
  
  1 day ago

• George Osborne: For confidence to return, Britain needs a credible plan

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  As we look forward to this weeks pre-Budget Report our economy faces some serious challenges, writes Shadow Cancellor George Osborne.
  2 days ago

• Revenge for past failings is a luxury the poor cant afford

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  However disappointing Labours record may be on fairness and services, the noises from Tories show it could get worse This is the season of reckonings, when end-of-year inspections rain down on the government like tombstones from the sky. One after another the judgments crash in: it was hospitals , primary schools ...
  3 days ago

• Dog whistle of the left

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The Eton taunts may resound at Westminster, but they have no traction among the wider public For almost four years, Gordon Brown has stopped himself playing the "posh" card against David Cameron. The restraint must have been agonising. He is a tribal politician, and the Tory leadership contest sent him the ultimate ...
  4 days ago

• Byrne Gets His Numbers Wrong

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 653
  Pah, £400,000?  No bother.  Osborne will just take it out of his trust fund… Tagged: George Osborne, Labour Party
  4 days ago

• Dont be too candid on spending plans, Ken Clarke tells George Osborne

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Ken Clarke, the former chancellor, has warned George Osborne to be careful about spelling out detailed public spending cuts in advance of the general election. In a sign of Tory nerves that the image of the "nasty party" could be revived, Clarke told a private meeting that the shadow chancellor should avoid "getting ...
  5 days ago

• Tories promise more freedom for big galleries

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Britains biggest museums and galleries would be set free from direct government control by the Tories, giving them a greater chance to build up US-style endowments, George Osborne announced today. In a speech at Tate Modern in London, the shadow chancellor said that free entry to museums and galleries during ...
  6 days ago

• David Cameron rules out transferable tax allowance for married couples | Andrew Sparrow

  
  Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 122
  How Tory leader will fulfil pledge to recognise marriage in the tax system still unclear One of the great mysteries of modern politics is how David Cameron is going to fulfil his pledge to "recognise" marriage in the tax system. Many people assumed that he was in favour of giving married couples a transferable tax ...
  6 days ago

• Britain the only G20 nation still in recession

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 1 (IANS) Britain is the only G20 nation still in recession, official figures showed after Canada resumed growth in the three months from July to September, going up 0.1 percent.The British economy shrank by 0.3 percent between July and September, the Office of National Statistics said, making it the only ...
  6 days ago

• The Tories Go Green

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 125
  By: Jonathan Marshall In an intriguing departure from partisan political trends on this side of the Atlantic, the British Conservative Party--which leads in the polls--is taking an aggressively pro-environmental stance. Last week, one of the partys top leaders, George Osborne, promised to slash carbon ...
  6 days ago

• Consumers repay their debt for a fourth consecutive month

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • UKs £228bn of unsecured debt has gone into reverse • Money supply shrank at 5.3% in the three months to October Britons repaid debt for a fourth consecutive month in October and at the fastest pace on record, the Bank of England said . The Bank also released other data showing the money supply is still ...
  1 week ago

• Morgan Stanley: UK could be first big economy to suffer major fiscal crisis

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 136
  Here’s one for George Osborne and Alistair Darling. Morgan Stanley Research Europe has just put out a note assessing the UK’s future prospects, and its findings are a timely addition to the hung parliament debate. One of its predictions for a surprise in 2010 is this: “UK becomes the first of the G10 to have ...
  1 week ago

• Make it pay to go green

  
  David Jones, MP — Authority: 424
  A survey for BBC Wales reveals that nine in ten (93%) Welsh people believe that the world’s climate is changing and three in four (72%) think that the lead to combat climate change should come from the Government, even if it means using the law to change people’s behaviour. Of course, using the law to ...
  1 week ago

• Banking on a green industrial revolution

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains ground George Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating businesses. Vince Cable wants a national investment bank for infrastructure, financed with a ...
  1 week ago

• Gordon Browns favourite Conservative policy pledge

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Promising to slash inheritance tax once looked like a brilliant coup for the Tories. Now its an albatross around their necks Well, it looked like a clever idea at the time. Indeed, it was a clever idea at the time. Such was the almost unanimous verdict of the media, politicians and pollsters, left, right and centre. ...
  1 week ago

• Tories should maintain hardline on UK economy

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  For several months now, the Conservatives have talked tough, inching towards a policy stance reflecting the UKs desperate fiscal situation.
  1 week ago

• Conservatives Launch Vouchers for Recycling Program

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 142
  After it was recently revealed that the United Kingdom was lagging behind many other European countries in its efforts towards recycling and waste management, government has put pressure on communities and local councils to come up with innovative schemes to encourage people to reduce waste and increase recycling.  ...
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