Several people have asked if the data I have put forward on government borrowing would have been changed if privatisations (including 3G and 4G spectrum
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Labour have borrowed less and repaid more than the Conservatives since 1979
Having produced information on government borrowings and repayments over a seventy year period, and in the process shown that curtailing the analysis after 62 years
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The budget: women will be handing money to men
As the Mirror has reported this morning: Men have benefited far more from tax cuts for top earners than women. Cutting the top rate from
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Voluntary codes on tax disclosure just won’t work
The Australian has reported that: BHP Billiton’s chief financial officer Peter Beaven has thrown his support behind proposals for a voluntary code for reporting of
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Wednesday in the Commons with George
I could write a great deal about the budget problems George Osborne faces. But I don’t need to because it can all be summarised by
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The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years
I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening to discuss John McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other on Radio
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Caroline Flint MP’s Multinational Enterprises (Financial Transparency) Bill
I am pleased to share the following press release that has been issued by the office of Caroline Flint MP, Labour MP for the Don
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John McDonnell: analysis of a speech
It is only fair I look at what John McDonnell said in his speech today, having said we do more than a new fiscal rule
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