Blog posts tagged "spending cuts"

April 21, 2012 7:51 pm 18 Comments

"I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world to make Britain competitive to bring jobs to Britain."

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 29, 2011 8:50 pm 3 Comments

It was quite some moment. Applause at the arrival of two new ministers in the Tunisian government alongside the new Central Bank governor at Davos, blogs Faisal Islam.

December 16, 2010 9:17 pm 9 Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on the difficulties the coalition government faces with tackling poverty.

October 21, 2010 3:46 pm 26 Comments

It is rather difficult to escape the notion that in an almost crazed desire to be seen as "fair", the Coalition has made a bit of a dog's dinner of the spending review.

October 20, 2010 5:49 pm 5 Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on today's Spending Review and finds it a "perfectly regressive review".

October 19, 2010 6:08 pm 6 Comments

Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that 14,000 jobs are to go at the Ministry of Justice - 11,000 of them from the frontline, according to a leaked internal memo.

October 17, 2010 5:05 pm 31 Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on how the government's spending cuts will hit child benefits, tax credits and social housing hard.

October 16, 2010 3:46 pm 20 Comments

Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on how government sources are expecting some train fares to be over 30 per cent higher by 2015, and industry sources pointed towards a 40 per cent hike by 2015.

August 25, 2010 4:45 pm 13 Comments

Whichever way you skin it, this budget is regressive and will hurt the poorest more, Faisal Islam writes.