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Nasty fiscal medicine needed to save Britain from disaster

19.11.09
If anyone in the Conservative Party still has a number for Norman Lamont this might be the moment to give him a call... more

Treasury star faces tough balancing act to rebuild failed banks

15.07.09
John Kingman doesn't like the limelight. The chief executive of UK Financial Investments was once a Financial Times journalist, but he almost never gives interviews...... more

Alphabet soup that can spell how the recession is shaping up

12.05.09
Hopes that the worst of the recession may have passed have fuelled talk about what form the recovery will take when it finally comes ... more

Gilts slide again

23.04.09
Gilts tumbled yet again today as investors digested Chancellor Alistair Darling’s dismal borrowing needs... more

Minister in new 'green shoots' gaffe

21.01.09
Gordon Brown faced fresh accusations of "complacency" over the dire state of the economy after a minister claimed there was "light at the end of the tunnel" for Britain's jobless... more

I'm never complacent, says Brown in 'green shoots' row

15.01.09
Gordon Brown has stressed that he was "never complacent" about the economy as the row over business minister Shriti Vadera rumbled on... more

Blowing cold in the Lords on windpower

26.11.08
Building thousands of turbines to meet Britain's renewable energy commitments by 2020 is likely to be a disaster... more

Tory apologises after saying 'recession can be good for us'

25.11.08
A top Tory was forced to issue an apology after he claimed that "recession can be good for us"... more

Tories pledge £2,500 ‘carrot’ to give work to the jobless

11.11.08
David Cameron has called for immediate action to combat unemployment with a £2.6 billion business tax cut to get the jobless into work... more

Politics

08.10.08
The Tories are in the ascendancy and gaining influence. Already the key figures in Westminster and beyond are thinking about the post-Brown generation.... more

Gieve sacrificed by Whitehall spinners to bury bad news

19.06.08
Politics is a dirty business, and seldom more dirty than the scene played out under the Mansion House lights at the Lord Mayor's banquet... more

Homes crisis: City chiefs make £800m

08.04.08
Two of London's wealthiest hedge fund managers paid themselves an estimated £400 million each last year, making them among the world's biggest winners from the credit crunch... more

Sterling's big slide may not be over yet

18.03.08
The decline of the dollar has become so much a part of the daily news we barely notice it amid the general mayhem... more

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