The government should adopt a 'Plan V' for long-term economic growth, boosting growing industries and sectors such as higher education where the UK has a comparative advantage, a think-tank said...
Chancellor George Osborne should take measures to kick-start growth while maintaining the government's deficit reduction plan when he makes his Autumn Statement later this month, according to the CBI.
There is a 50% chance of the UK falling back into recession in 2011/12 even if the eurozone crisis is successfully resolved, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned today.
The UK government has dismissed a Scottish National Party claim that an independent Scotland could be the world’s sixth richest nation if it had control of North Sea oil and gas revenues
Unemployment in the UK has hit a 17-year high, with more than 2.5 million people now out of work, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
Weak economic growth means public sector job cuts should be delayed, if necessary beyond the next general election, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has warned.
David Cameron has called for Britain not to be ‘paralysed by gloom and fear’ about the economy, promising that the government’s austerity plan will work.
Pessimists argue that only zero growth will save the planet. But it doesn't have to be that way, says the IPPR. There are ways to achieve Treasury growth targets and reduce greenhouse gases
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government will give councils £805m to freeze council tax for a second consecutive year, using money saved by cutting waste.
The coalition talk might be all about small government. But in the real world, the unprecedented shocks to the UK - banking crises, terrorist attacks, riots - show we rely on the state more than ever
Two of Scotland's most senior economists will today back the Scottish Government's demands for control over corporation tax, despite a lukewarm response to the idea from business.
