And so farewell, golden rules. Cynics suggested that obfuscation swirled around the official interpretation of the Golden Rule and the Sustainable Investment Rule.... contortionists admired the rules' flexibility... dullards complained that the question of whether the government was meeting its own self-imposed targets was invariably clear... Well Gordon Brown has no doubt. "We met our g...

Have the rules of the road changed? Or are they just not teaching people properly anymore? When I was learning to drive, the golden rule drummed into my head by my instructor was "keep left". Nowhere was this impressed upon me more than when it came to turning right - "always remember the golden rule - keep to the left unless directed otherwise" - meaning that you should always pass a car offside ...

HM Treasury will announce later today that "the Golden Rule," which states that the government should balance the books over the economic cycle, has been broken.

Why Labour should ALWAYS assume the worst Before we get into the days big story about whether Brown can hang on let’s have a quick look at the pollsters which, once again, have shown that the Golden Polling Rule still operates. This, as we’ve discussed here before, is that in CON-LAB contests the survey showing

Could Cameron really be heading for a 260 seat majority? One of the things I often write when talking about UK polling is that based on two decades of general elections, every single London mayoral race and every single by election where there has been polling the “golden rule” has applied. This says simply that the most

With five polls showing the same thing should he risk it? The “Golden Rule” has operated in every single general election, EU election, London Mayoral election and in by elections where there has been polling right back to the 1980s - so clearly the wise course for Labour is to look at the worst case scenario.

Should Labour always plan for the worst? With two polls this morning showing very different outcomes and both apparently have taken place at the same it’s perhaps a good moment to bring PB’s “Golden Polling Rule” out again. Just to recall YouGov in the Sunday Times has the Tory lead narrowing to 5% while ComRes in

Chancellor Alistair Darling will this week announce plans to scrap the fiscal "golden rule" introduced by Gordon Brown when Labour came to power, it was reported today.

The socalled fiscal "golden rule" is to be scrapped as the Government increases spending to stimulate the economy Gordon Brown has indicated.

Going past a newstand just now I glimpsed the Daily Mail and was reminded once again - with shattering clarity - that I inhabit a completely different universe from Daily Mail readers - or at least a completely different universe from the one which Daily Mail journalists think their readers inhabit. 40 kids dead in a UN school in Gaza and what does the bloody Daily Mail lead on? THE GREAT