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:

Chancellor says enterprise could be stifled and jobs put at risk if ‘anti-business culture’ were allowed to take hold

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

New Open Europe report: Repatriating EU social policy for jobs and growth

In a speech to the Aldersgate Group, a coalition of environment agencies, NGOs, think tanks and industry representatives, Caroline Flint, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, set out the case for an active industrial strategy to drive green growth, reboot the British economy and build a more resilient and responsible economy for the future

Recession looms, unemployment touches a 17-year high. But 101 Tory MPs want David Cameron to shackle the UK’s wind industry, which now employs over 10,000 people. Their call will feed the predominant anti-renewables line in some media.

Yesterday, the minister for disabled people, Maria Miller, said there are no shortage of jobs and blamed unemployment on people's unwillingness to apply for work. The last set of data showed that there are as many as 20 people chasing the one vacancy in some areas, in Lewisham there are almost thirty five dole claimants chasing each vacancy.

MP John Mann suggests eight government departments should move out of Whitehall and relocate to the North, Midlands and South West of England.

Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the NHS could have saved the jobs of 6,000 nurses, Ed Miliband has claimed.

Republican frontrunner opens new line of attack on Barack Obama after last week’s jobs figures, claiming real unemployment rate is above 15%