Blog posts tagged "Economy"

May 17, 2012 4:59 pm 9 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the less than positive reaction to David Cameron's interventions on Europe.

May 16, 2012 6:23 pm 4 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on David Cameron's warning of a eurozone break-up.

April 23, 2012 5:47 pm No Comments

After a relatively minor clash with Tory MPs over an increase of the loan to the IMF, George Osborne has emerged relatively unscathed.

December 21, 2011 2:31 pm 8 Comments

Government ministers will spend most of the year bedecked in high-visibility jackets to remind you how busy they are pushing growth ... but rising unemployment, insolvencies and low confidence seem with us for 2012.

November 29, 2011 1:15 pm 5 Comments

The instant reactions of our political editor, Gary Gibbon, to the chancellor's autumn statement.

November 1, 2011 3:50 pm 1 Comment

Ireland discovers some spare pennies - but at a time of austerity, shouldn't the government already have been looking for any "lost" cash, says Gary Gibbon.

January 25, 2011 3:14 pm 8 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on the reaction to today's "worrying" economic figures and what it means for the Coalition government.

November 29, 2010 2:37 pm 5 Comments

The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts that the economic recovery will be the slowest we've known in post-war recoveries, as Gary Gibbon blogs.

November 9, 2010 12:38 pm 2 Comments

David Cameron's trip to China is a trade delegation first and last - and the Prime Minister will not want to be seen as lecturing the country on its human rights record, writes Gary Gibbon.

July 20, 2010 1:48 pm 5 Comments

David Cameron has just told PBS radio in Washington that the Megrahi release was “not a BP decision” but “the decision of British ministers” (by which he means Scottish ministers). He has revisited his initial decision to turn down a late request from four US senators to meet up and discuss the Lockerbie bomber’s release [...]