I am sorry that Margaret Hodge has announced that she has no plan to seek the chair’s role on the Public Accounts Committee during the
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There were two corporate tax abuse stories yesterday. One was about Next, where HMRC believe they have closed a £22 million loophole the company was
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George Osborne’s response to the news that the UK has officially moved into a period o deflation has been reported to be: Today we see
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The EU has published a new report on living and working conditions in the EU member states. The focus is on wage and so income
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As the Guardian has reported this morning, the International Labour Organisation has issued a new report whose finding is that only one in four people
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David Cobham is professor of economics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He co-edited the spring 2013 issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy on
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I cannot help but say I was disappointed to read this in the Guardian: Labour needs to reset its relationship with business, one of the frontrunners
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I am already depressed by the Labour Party’s leadership election. I should declare an interest: I could vote, I think, as I am a member
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No one, not least the Tories, expected to form a majority government after the general election. As a result some pretty poor policies were presented
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