Single mothers will be hit hardest by coalition tax rises and benefit cuts, losing nearly ten per cent of their income after tax by 2015, according to a report... more
Chancellor George Osborne is boosted on two fronts with the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies backing his deficit-busting plans and builders bouncing back from December's blizzards... more
Three-quarters of a million people are set to become higher rate taxpayers as a result of Government reforms to the system, a report has indicated... more
Hundreds of thousands of people will be dragged into poverty by the Government's tax and benefit reforms, according to research from a leading economic think-tank... more
Robert Halfon, the Tory MP for Harlow, has been taking no prisoners in his attempts to expose the extraordinary power of the Institute For Fiscal Studies in Whitehall circles... more
When it comes to crunching the numbers around tax and spend, the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies says it does the same job as the Treasury but 'more comprehensively and more accurately'... more
Nick Clegg hit out at a respected economic think tank after it dismissed the coalition's claims that the pain of public spending cuts had been spread fairly... more
The wonderful thing about the questions that Mrs Gillian Duffy of Rochdale put to the Prime Minister yesterday — with disastrous results for him — is that they represent so many of the concerns of ordinary voters... more
Next government will have to slash spending or hike taxes by an extra £13 billion a year to get Britain’s finances back on track, a leading independent think-tank warns ... more
Deep cuts in transport, universities, defence and housing budgets will be forced in the wake of Alistair Darling’s mini-Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said tonight... more
Interview: Robert Chote’s think-tank pulled no punches with its cool-headed Budget analysis. No wonder the City
rates him – and Gordon Brown is wary... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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