Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to George Osborne’s speech to the Federation of Small Businesses dinner, said:

George Osborne has insisted that he was determined to stop those "who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain" after the series of rows over bonus payments.

George Osborne’s speech to the Federation of Small Businesses tonight tries to offer some reassurance that the coalition isn’t caving into the anti-business zeitgeist. Referring to the recent rows over executive pay, he deplores rewards for failure before saying ‘a strong, free market economy must be built on rewards for success. There are those who are trying to create an anti-b...

George Osborne promises to fight an "anti-business culture", warning that the row over bonuses and pay threatens to undermine jobs and prosperity.

George Osborne is looking at whether public sector workers should be paid different amounts depending on where they live.

George Osborne spent more than £30,000 of taxpayers' money overhauling Number 11 Downing Street in the year following the election, official documents revealed on Friday night.

George Osborne should consider emergency tax cuts in the Budget as Britain is "certain" to be plunged back into recession this year, an influential forecaster warns.

Labour has just marched into the trap that George Osborne set them and voted against the benefits cap — again. As one gleeful Tory says, ‘we’re going to make sure everyone in the country knows how they voted on this.’   I suspect that in every Labour-held marginal that the Tories need to win to get a majority in 2015 the benefit cap will feature prominently on Tory lit...

Readers may be interested in an e-petition on the HM Government website which calls on the Government to implement the tax cuts for the poorest which Nick Clegg called for last week.  It says: Please sign this to persuade George Osborne to fast track the Lib Dem policy to increase the income tax threshold to

Corporation tax should be halved to boost business and revive Britain's economic growth, according to a think tank.