The ‘credit easing’ announced by the chancellor could help businesses and inject more cash into the economy. So is this still plan A? Read more
Iain Duncan Smith’s moral crusade on welfare at today’s Conservative Party conference does not address the concerns of 2.51 million unemployed Read more
The council tax freeze announced by George Osborne is being made at the expense of low-paid, local government workers’ pensions Read more
David Cameron will be facing down his critics in Manchester and holding firmly on to the political centre ground Read more
The chattering classes tend to get much more excited by the personality clashes at party conferences than by the politics Read more
Ed Miliband’s ‘producers vs predators’ speech to Labour conference helped the party leader move out of the political shadows. Now he needs to supply some detail Read more
Localism is being debated across the party conferences, including at yesterday’s Public Finance/CIPFA fringe event. It needs to move centre-stage Read more
Ronald Reagan famously claimed that ‘government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem’. Read more
Nick Clegg’s summer school idea is neither new nor costed. In all likelihood it will mean a raid on the pupil premium funding pot Read more
Changes to the Public Works Loan Board rates, announced by Danny Alexander at the LibDem conference, could help housing become a driving force for local regeneration Read more
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