Spending cuts alone will not be enough to rebalance the public finances George Osborne said yesterday paving the way for a Tory government to raise taxes.

George Osborne the shadow chancellor yesterday refused to rule out tax rises to tackle the debt crisis which he predicted Gordon Brown would "bequeath" to an incoming Tory government.

Council tax would be frozen for the first two years of a Conservative government Shadow Chancellor George Osborne promised the Tory party conference in Birmingham.

Shadow chancellor attacks government spending plans as children's secretary says choice for voters at the election will be Labour investment versus Tory cuts The row about the public finances intensified today as George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, accused Labour of being "dishonest" about public spending after the election. In an article in the Times, Osborne said that Brown's claim ...

George Osborne the shadow chancellor has said that a Conservative government would replace the Private Finance Initiative for funding big public sector projects.

Shadow chancellor says a Conservative government would try to cut the estimated £39bn budget shortfall mainly by controlling public spending George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said today a Tory government might have to revise previously-agreed three-year public sector pay deals in an effort to tackle Britain's growing debt problem. He was speaking in response to the publication of f...

George Osborne will warn today that a Conservative government would struggle to cut taxes if Britain is "crushed" by debt as Gordon Brown increases borrowing during the recession. In a speech at the London School of Economics, the shadow chancellor will accuse the prime minister of planning to "borrow without limit" in a way that would create a burden of debt that would take a decade to pay off. O...

The thin strip of clear blue water between the Government and Opposition's positions on public spending is steadily widening. On this morning's Today programme, George Osborne's statement that "the age of excess" in public sector pay is over is another...

Chancellor George Osborne reminds the Tory Party conference "what state the public finances were in when Labour left office."

A Conservative Government would impose a oneyear pay freeze on the majority of public sector workers to get the state deficit under control shadow chancellor George Osborne has said.