LEAP economics

Are the austerians right and the opponents of austerity proved wrong? Is Osborne's strategy vindicated? Let's judge by his own stand...

After three quarters of economic growth, George Osborne has already transitioned from cautious optimism to full-on self congratulation. ...

by Luke James Unions reminded backslapping Tory leaders today that Britain is in the grip of the worst economic crisis in ...

In the 2013 Spending Round in June George Osborne said he was taking decisions to "secure the recovery". Yesterday talk of recover...

Earlier this week Labour leader Ed Miliband made the case (somewhat haphazardly) for more short-term borrowing to stimulate the economy. Not...

Yesterday the OECD predicted the UK economy would contract in the first quarter of 2012. It led the news for a while (pre-Galloway), vying ...

On 14 September the horror of this government’s austerity policies was brought into sharper relief with the publication of unemployment stat...

From today's Morning Star by John Millington Bank of England governor Mervyn King admitted today that the economy would not recover to ...

Letter in today's Independent from Kelvin Hopkins MP Stephen King's "Economic Outlook" (4 April) did at least cast doubt o...

The Irish Parliament’s vote to implement a further, more savage €6 billion programme of spending cuts and tax increases has done nothing to ...

Earlier this week I went to the launch of the new and expanded 'One Million Climate Jobs' pamphlet, which sets out a strategy to so...

Look beyond the big society rhetoric and there's a very flawed theory at the heart of George Osborne's chancellorship. It was outlin...