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.

The Chancellor has defended RBS's award of a bonus to its chief executive, saying it was down to the state-backed lender.

The Chancellor George Osborne has revealed details about the new Financial Services Bill that will overhaul regulation of the sector.

Europe needs to "show the colour" of its money before Britain gives more cash to bail out countries, George Osborne says.

Britain should "never again see the paralysis and confusion" caused by the banking crash three years ago under new reforms to the financial system, George Osborne has said.

John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, has reacted to news that the economy is now shrinking by more than expected. According to the Office for National Statistics, the UK's economy suffered a 0.2% contraction in the final quarter of 2011. Mr Denham, in response to growth figures for the final quarter of 2011, said; "George Osborne told us the economy would grow and unemployment would...