The shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson, urges an 11th hour rethink of Tuesday's planned VAT rise in a letter to the government today, as theConfederation of British Industry (CBI)
warned public spending cuts could lead to a dramatic slowdown in the pace of economic recovery.
Not exact matches
The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the
cuts to
public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has
warned about for some time.
Speaking on the Today programme after the letter emerged, Osborne defended his
warning of
spending cuts and tax rises, saying Brexit would bring with it «chaos» in the UK's
public finances.
Spending cuts will continue for many more years to come David Cameron said today as he
warned that
public debt risks pushing Britain «over the brink».
Public Sector Cuts Finally Start to Bite The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some
Public Sector
Cuts Finally Start to Bite The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some t
Cuts Finally Start to Bite The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the
cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some t
cuts to
public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some
public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has
warned about for some time.
The BRC's
warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of
cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from
public services, which will result from the
spending review revealed on October 20th.
Councils have no choice but to undergo «major restructuring» to cope with
public spending cuts, the Audit Commission has
warned.
The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund
public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies
warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare
cuts to protect health and education
spending.
He
warned George Osborne that «not a single
public sector job» nor one penny of
spending should be
cut.
Vince Cable
warned before the election that «the danger of drastic
cuts in
public spending right now is that it would make the recession worse and it would make the deficit worse» — but he signed up to them.
Alan Johnson, the shadow chancellor, attacked «the deepest
cuts to
public spending in living memory», which he
warned could end up «stifling» the economic recovery.