Blog posts tagged "Nick Clegg"

November 24, 2011 8:24 pm 20 Comments

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is expected to announce £1bn, opportunities for 500,000 18-24-year-olds, and funding for work placements, apprenticeships and work experience to fend off the scourge of youth unemployment.

November 21, 2011 9:26 pm 11 Comments

Yet another housing initiative is announced, but will it make up for the 260,000 planned homes that have been pulled by councils? Marrying local planning with the free market is a risk for the UK's housing market.

September 14, 2011 4:45 pm 10 Comments

Euro crisis, poor jobs figures, massive national strikes, on top of high inflation squeezing living standards - Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on the political response to the economic bad weather.

January 10, 2011 3:09 pm 19 Comments

Our Economics Editor looks at Nick Clegg's reassurances to "alarm clock Britain" - and questions whether the promise of £700-a-year tax cuts by the end of the Parliament is as reliable as the Deputy Prime Minister makes out.

May 14, 2010 6:22 pm 29 Comments

I do have serious questions about one massive U-turn from Messrs Clegg and Cable - their adoption of the Conservative plan for £6bn of in-year cuts, writes economics editor Faisal Islam.

May 7, 2010 10:44 pm 6 Comments

As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?

April 16, 2010 12:28 pm No Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on how he believes the Conservatives may be feeling a little edgy after last night's leaders' debate.

April 14, 2010 10:02 pm No Comments

If the election was a prize for fiscal candour, the Liberal Democrats might actually win, blogs Faisal Islam.

March 13, 2010 8:15 pm No Comments

Nick Clegg may have blown open the key debate on the deficit in this election. In or out of government, he says, he will not back the “economic masochism” of starting fiscal retrenchment this year. This happens to be one of the few areas of clear blue water between Labour and Conservatives going in to [...]