Autumn statement
The spending cuts George Osborne flatly refused to make
The Autumn Statement on 25 November had long been circled in Downing Street diaries as the season’s defining political moment.…
Portrait of the week
Home The government spent days announcing how the Autumn Statement would allocate funds. ‘Frontline’ parts of the National Health Service…
The very model of a political Chancellor
Autumn Statements lack the drama and traditions of the Budget. Gladstone never delivered one, there is no Autumn Statement box…
Filming Bono, fighting Balls - how George Osborne's preparing for his autumn statement
James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman discuss George Osborne’s 2013 Autumn statement: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1763353-isabel-hardman-and-james-forsyth-discuss-george-osborne-s-autumn-statement”][/audioboo] Next week’s autumn statement looks at first…