SHADOW chancellor George Osborne today offered to meet the First Minister to discuss future spending in Scotland.

ALISTAIR Darling is set to announce additional cash for back-to-work programmes after better-than-expected figures for February gave the Chancellor a surprise windfall ahead o

European rules need to change so that countries that repeatedly break the bloc's economic guidelines can be expelled from the euro zone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday (17 March).

The three men vying to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer are to take part in a live televised election debate on Channel 4.

Policymakers are debating whether a proposed 'European Monetary Fund' would require changes to the EU's Lisbon Treaty, as predicted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The EU executive believes it would, while politicians on the margins say it would not. 

THE three men vying to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer are to take part in a live televised election debate on Channel 4.

So, we have a date for the Chancellor’s debate. Channel 4 News will host Darling, Cable and Osborne on Monday the 29th of March at 8pm.   I have a suspicion that George Osborne will come out of this debate rather well. He doesn’t have an expectations problem, unlike Cable, and is quick on his feet. Most importantly, the facts are on his side. It is also worth remembering, as one T...

SHADOW chancellor George Osborne has accused the Prime Minister of being "dishonest" with voters.

George Osborne has long been in the City’s crosshairs, and criticism peaked last week when less than a quarter of a City panel believe he has the mettle to be Chancellor. Today, Osborne fights back in the FT, with a piece co-penned by Jeffrey Sachs. The pair set out an argument for immediate ‘frugality’, rather than ‘cuts’, and damn Brown’s economic policy as sh...

The chancellor must decide whether to put "his country before his party" in his Budget next week, George Osborne says.