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 ...

David has already blogged about George Osborne and Jeffrey Sach's article in the FT this morning.  But it's worth returning to what is as clear and as unalloyed a statement of Tory policy on the public finances as you'll have seen over the past few months.   What I find most impressive about the article isn't so much its loose, perhaps nebulous, prescriptions for the ...

There's a great deal of rumbling on the Westminster grapevine about George Osborne's position in the Tory party.  The FT set the ball a-rolling yesterday, with an article on the "dinner table" ire aimed at the Shadow Chancellor.  It contained a juicy quote from a Tory MP, claiming that Osborne "was a good chancellor for the good times – now he’s ...

The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, plans to draw up strict new rules on tax and spending under a Tory government

All the details are on today's ConservativeHome frontpage but there is some confusion about yesterday's seemingly get-tough message from George Osborne on public sector pay. The FT leads its morning edition with the story - headlining 'Tories take risk over...

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, is set to pave the way for tax increases under a Tory government while warning against the risks of a short-term cut by Gordon Brown

Today the United States effectively ended the "short selling" on the New York stock exchange. The question is, will Labour have the guts to do this over here ? George Osborne refused tonight to say that the Tories would do anything about "short selling", so it appears unlikely that any future Tory government will do anything to prevent their friends in the city causing further misery to savers. Th...

There are a couple of noteworthy snippets in today's FT interview with George Osborne: the claim that the Tories may not take corporation tax as low as it is in Ireland; the outline of a "five-year road map" on business tax policy, etc.  But, I must admit, it's this passage which jumped out at me:    "[Osborne] says his Tory conference speech in October, whi...

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, paved the way for tax increases under a Tory government while warning against the risks of a short-term 'tax-con' cut by Gordon Brown