The FT notes this morning that: George Osborne is looking at relaxing the Treasury’s assumption of deep austerity over the next five years in next week’s
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I have just spent over two hours watching  Margaret Hodge and  the Public Accounts Committee questioning Stuart Gulliver, Chris Meares and Rona Fairhead of HSBC.
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I have just seen an email from a Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate that feels as if it has official sanction. It says: Liberal Democrats
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According to the FT: The Treasury will on Monday be accused of failing to learn the lessons of the financial crisis, with senior MPs claiming
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Lord Baker has called for a Grand Coalition between Labour and the Conservatives after the general election to prevent the Scottish Nationalists holding the balance
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Jolyon Maugham has put forward an interesting argument on his blog. He has argued that the Coalition government’s plan to restrict the use of losses
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I’m in Scotland for a significant part of next week. This is the one public event of the visit:   See you there?

This off the cuff exchange at Bath University is just too good not to share:

HMRC have obviously issued a press briefing that is breathlessly reported as follows by the FT: HM Revenue & Customs raked in £1.1bn from challenging
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