LibDem Julian Huppert started Prime Minister’s Questions with a zinger today. He said that jobs and growth depend on consumer confidence, and asked if, therefore, the PM thinks that telling 25 million people that they have no job security and could be fired tomorrow will help consumer confidence (this refers to the proposal from Tory

Sky high unemployment, low levels of investment, low consumer confidence and stalled growth all indicate we're on the verge of a double dip recession. For this reason our new publication out this week: 'Plan B; a good economy for a good society' says the government needs to take strong action to reverse this slide.

If yesterday’s GfK NOP Consumer Confidence Barometer measured air pressure we’d be getting ready for a hurricane. The overall measure has slipped from -30 to -32, down 13 points from October 2010′s -19. All the different elements are negative, all are down on last year and none are up on last month: We’re getting so

POOR consumer confidence has dashed hopes of a recovery in the depressed Scottish housing market, the latest survey shows today. Average house prices fell by 3.7 per cent acro

There’s more bad news about consumer confidence, with the release of the July figures for the GfK NOP Consumer Confidence Barometer, which dropped five points. This follows another fall lost month and a mini-recovery earlier in the year has now been wiped out. Nick Moon, the Managing Director of GfK NOP Social Research, noted that

Angela Eagle MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to the GFK NOP Consumer Confidence Index for June: 

Angela Eagle MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to today’s manufacturing PMI data, Bank of England lending figures and Ipsos MORI consumer confidence survey:

Consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in almost two years, on the expectation that the economy will weaken over the next six months and spending cuts will make it harder to find a job.

Retailers called for an end to the uncertainty over exactly where the cuts would fall, which is undermining consumer confidence, and weighing on sales

Bad news about household consumption in the monthly consumer confidence poll and house price data released today. The GfK/NOP Consumer Confidence Index fell slightly, to minus 20, from minus 18 in August (and minus 16 in September 2009). The index for how people felt their personal financial situation had changed over the previous 12 months