The 1000: Stephen Hawking hails London, capital of science
Stephen Hawking today hailed London as a “leading centre” of global science after the capital’s most influential people packed the Francis Crick Institute for the launch of the Evening Standard’s The...
View ArticleAlex Salmond attacks George Osborne over rejection of currency union
Scottish first minister says chancellor's refusal to consider sharing sterling with an independent Scotland is self-defeating ...
View ArticleNo currency union with independent Scotland, George Osborne confirms
Chancellor tells audience in Edinburgh that currency union between Scotland and rest of UK would be unworkable ...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne beats Boris to come top in the Evening Standard's The 1000...
George Osborne was today named the most influential person in London as the Chancellor topped the Evening Standard’s The 1000 power list, with Mayor Boris Johnson in second place. Our panel of editors,...
View ArticleBudget 2015: what it means for London (HMT - UK Her Majesty's Treasury)
(Source: HMT - UK Her Majesty's Treasury) The new measures will help build on a six-point plan announced by the Chancellor and the Mayor of London last month in a speech made at the Tate Modern which...
View ArticleAndy McSmith's Sketch: George Osborne could really learn from BBC's Wolf Hall
There was an intriguing column in The Daily Telegraph recently by its finest ex-writer, Peter Oborne speculating that George Osborne had accepted that he would never be Tory leader, and had decided...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne: 'I ignored advice to axe Crossrail'
George Osborne has told how he was advised to axe funding for the flagship projects of Crossrail, the Tate Modern extension, and the...
View ArticleBudget 2015: George Osborne to axe subsidies for higher income earners in...
Higher income earners who live in social housing will no longer be able to claim taxpayer-funded subsidies for their rent under a fresh welfare cut expected to be announced by George Osborne in his...
View ArticleUK's Osborne says could not back pound for independent Scotland
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne said on Thursday...
View ArticleBudget's a joke: George Osborne's policies poke fun at Labour
Chancellor riffs on Ed Miliband’s two kitchens and Harriet Harman’s pink van, before comparing election to Agincourt during speech...
View ArticleOsborne stops pension providers giving advice
Pension firms will not be allowed to advise people on their retirement options from next April, but they will effectively be forced to pay for independent advice for retirees. The Chancellor, George...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne taps £27bn windfall for tax credits U-turn
Surprise new optimistic forecasts on tax receipts from the Office for Budget Responsibility also spares cuts in frontline policing but fresh squeeze hits local councils...
View ArticleChancellor George Osborne blasted as banks probe axed
George Osborne has been accused of forcing regulators to ditch a review into Britain's banking culture under pressure from the industry's biggest names. The Chancellor is "bowing" to demands to drop...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne's spending review to raise number of UK spies
Chancellor promises to increase number of intelligence officers in all three British security services...
View ArticleFresh spending squeeze has already begun, says George Osborne
Chancellor tells government departments to make immediate start on finding £13bn of further cuts – with goal of announcing savings by July...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne ignored doctors advice about tobacco levy
George Osborne disregarded the advice of doctors, cancer charities and the Government’s public health experts to rule out a tax on Big Tobacco, official documents show. Organisations including the...
View ArticleRBS sell-off: George Osborne defends £1bn loss
Critics brand the UK government’s overnight sale of a 5.4% stake in the bailed-out bank as ‘short-changing the taxpayer’...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne: Pensioner bond scheme to be extended
A government-backed pensioner bond offering competitive rates of up to 4% interest is to be offered for a further three months, George Osborne has said. The chancellor told the BBC he was extending the...
View ArticleDeparture of Sir Nicholas Macpherson GCB, Permanent Secretary to the...
(Source: HMT - UK Her Majesty's Treasury) The Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, has confirmed that he will step down after over 10 years in the role and leave the Civil...
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