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Public sector pay is now at the top of the agenda of the main political parties. With a huge chunk of public spending going on pay Alistair Darling and George Osborne have already signalled tough clampdowns in prospect. Full Article at Times Online
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Parliamentary Answers laid in the House of Commons today have revealed George Osborne's tax credit plans would hit millions of families on modest incomes. Full Article at The UK Labour Party
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The Daily Mail has warned David Cameron to adopt a more hard-headed approach to climate change Financial Times accuses the Conservatives of cash-for-access donor clubs Labour's not calling general election in 2007 was error, says Jack Straw... Full Article at ConservativeHome
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George Osborne could soon be running the nations finances. Full Article at New Statesman
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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. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Kenneth Clarke has warned George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, against “getting too adventurous” in plans for public spending cuts before the next general election. Full Article at Times Online
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George Osborne gave an interesting speech at the Tate Family conference yesterday. He indicated he would reverse Labour's drive to make the arts a tool of social re-engineering. Full Article at Times Online
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Chris Grayling brands leaked policing white paper "a damp squib" "An apparent admission in the leaked papers that there was not much new in the proposals - the phrase 'bold new programme' was amended to delete the word 'bold' - was seized on by... Full Article at ConservativeHome
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Shadow chancellor George Osborne announced a Conservative government will give art institutions a greater chance to build US-style endowments. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Liz Gyekye 30 Nov 2009 All three political parties should endorse the RecycleBank scheme to encourage residents to recycle more, according to waste firm Veolia Environmental Services deputy chief executive Paul Levett. Full Article at Materials Recycling Week
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The Observer carries a story that the Government is contemplating announcing a suspension of its inheritance tax cut in the Pre-Budget Report. The aim will be to put pressure on the Tories by increasing the price of the Osborne pledge. Full Article at Times Online
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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. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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For a whole week, the political classes have been obsessed by the prospect of a hung Parliament. The subject has arisen quite suddenly, out of nowhere, or almost nothing. Full Article at The Independent
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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. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Families could get up to £130 a year in vouchers to spend in stores such as Marks and Spencer (M&S) in exchange for recycling their rubbish, under plans outlined by shadow Chancellor George Osborne. Full Article at Which
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Now we know why the Tories hate inheritance tax The shadow cabinet would make millions from cuts in inheritance tax. Full Article at New Statesman
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A green investment bank and paying families to recycle were among a wave of schemes promised by the Conservatives - if they win the next election. Full Article at Environmental Data Interactive
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Ending 24-hour drinking and annual cap on immigrants will be top priorities for the Tories "Ending Labour's controversial licensing laws and imposing a cap on immigration will be top priorities for an incoming Tory government, the Conservatives will... Full Article at ConservativeHome
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David Cameron's closest Tory chums will make £7.1MILLION from his plans to slash inheritance tax for the super-rich. Full Article at Mirror.co.uk
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The families of members of David Cameron's shadow cabinet stand to gain a total of £7million if the Conservatives win the election and implement their promise to cut inheritance tax. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
About George Osborne
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Gideon George Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001. He is currently Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Full Article
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The scale of these loans raises the question of how Labour's tripartite regulatory structure allowed these banks to come so close to collapse in the first place, and underlines the need for fundamental reform to put the Bank of England back in charge.
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George Osborne has already said the Tories would encourage hospitals to borrow against their assets and let them go bust if they fail to keep up repayments
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Gordon Brown used to boast about leading the G20 but it is now official that Britain is the only G20 country still in recession. Labour’s disastrous economic policies meant Britain was one of the first into recession and now we are the last out.
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David Cameron and George Osborne are the Jedward of politics. Hilarious to watch. All spin and no substance. But you won’t be laughing if they win
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Gordon Brown used to boast about leading the G20 but it is now official that Britain is the only G20 country still in recession. Labour’s disastrous economic policies meant Britain was one of the first into recession and now we are the last out.
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The SNP's isolation would have been disastrous for Scotland like (shadow chancellor) George Osborne's immediate cuts would have been disastrous for the SNP.
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Far from 'leading the world out of recession' as Gordon Brown has claimed, the evidence shows how his economic policies have failed.
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I don’t think it is that controversial and I have seen references in speeches from George Osborne around the subject which look awfully similar and familiar.
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Britain is singled out for concern over the size of our debt crisis, and the message could not be clearer: if we don't start dealing with those debts we will face a downgrade.
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is that we've been through three-party political conferences but when you look at what needs to happen in terms of building a low carbon economy, creating green jobs and helping to save the world from climate change, the fact is that George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor, didn't spend one word talking about...
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Now we're finding out what happens when a Labour Government loses control of the public finances. You end up spending more on the interest on your debts than on public services like transport. It's very unusual for the IMF to single a country out in this way, but it just shows the massive scale of Brita...
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The plans that (Tory leader) David Cameron and (Shadow Chancellor) George Osborne outlined this week are the most wildly dangerous economic proposals that Britain has seen in the past 100 years ... They show absolutely no understanding of basic economics.
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These figures are very good news for the world economy, but Britain now stands out as the only major economy still in recession. Gordon Brown's claim that we were 'best placed' now lies in tatters. His recession plan has failed.
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George Osborne’s catchphrase at the Tory conference was 'We’re all in this together’. Perhaps he should make that 'except Conservative shadow chancellors and founder members of the Cameron club who flip their million-pound properties to dodge a £55,000 capital gains tax bill.’
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These figures are very good news for the world economy, but Britain now stands out as the only major economy still in recession. Gordon Brown's claim that we were 'best placed' now lies in tatters. His recession plan has failed.
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The Tories have got a lot of questions to answer about defence policy and they need to be clear about who is really in charge of their plans for our armed forces – Liam Fox or George Osborne?
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I am today calling on the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority to combine forces and stop retail banks – in other words the banks that lend directly to businesses and families – paying out profits in significant cash bonuses. Full stop.
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A Cabinet minister was yesterday accused of bullying the BBC after he used Twitter to accuse it of bias in favour of the Tories. Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said coverage of George Osborne's party conference speech was 'fawning and feeble'
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The Government’s economic policies are failing the people of Bradford. These figures show we are still in a recession and that blows apart the myth that Labour’s recovery plan is working.
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David Cameron has to follow George Osborne in giving tough messages, and he has to paint a picture of what Britain under his premiership would look and feel like. But he has to do it in a more friendly, compassionate way than George.
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This news has destroyed Labour's claim that Britain was better placed than other countries to weather the storms
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We certainly do not believe that ‘Dutch auctions’ at party conferences is the proper way to determine these matters. We do things properly as a government in Scotland — George Osborne is only shadow Chancellor and is jumping the gun.
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This is desperate attention-seeking by the First Minister. This is a British general election and it is either going to be Gordon Brown or David Cameron as prime minister.
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George Osborne has revealed the Tories’ real agenda. They are trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes by pretending they care about low-paid workers. But millions of public sector workers will be left out in the cold by this pay freeze. Other staff will have to pay with job and service cuts, while ba...
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George has a high regard for Lord Turner’s ability but has absolutely not started handing out jobs to anyone. There is an election to win first.
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