British economy teeters on brink of recession

montrealgazette 25-JAN-12

Miliband admits Labour was wrong to knight Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin and backs call for honour to be revoked

dailymail 20-JAN-12

Ed Balls: 'We cannot reverse tax rises or spending cuts'

telegraph 14-JAN-12

Brother David overshadows Miliband¿s relaunch as he says Labour is split and ¿frustrated¿

dailymail 10-JAN-12

David Cameron apologises for Ed Balls tourette's jibe

telegraph 08-JAN-12

Jim Murphy: Labour should accept spending cuts

telegraph 06-JAN-12

Balls urges 'Lib-Lab coalition'

bbc 21-DEC-11

Miliband woe as Cameron soars to a six-point poll lead after his hardline stand on Europe

dailymail 18-DEC-11

Clegg returns to Cameron's side

thesun 14-DEC-11

RBS bailout: The arrogance, greed and sheer stupidity that will punish UK households for years

dailymail 13-DEC-11

EU summit: A day for Britain to salute David Cameron

dailymail 10-DEC-11

Radiation leak at Japan nuclear plant

euronews 05-DEC-11

Autumn Statement 2011: key points

telegraph 29-NOV-11

Thousands set for pensions strike

bbc 29-NOV-11

Global recovery 'petering out' 10:17 OECD cuts growth forecasts and highlights threat of even more devastating downturns

irishtimes 28-NOV-11

Doctor says gangrene threat to Seif al-Islam's wound

channelnewsasia 28-NOV-11

Autumn Statement 2011: Government to underwrite £40bn in loans in attempt to kick-start economy

telegraph 27-NOV-11

Libyan officials: Gadhafi intelligence chief captured

cnn 21-NOV-11

Seif al-Islam expected to get a fair trial

RTERadio 20-NOV-11

Northern Rock - a deal Sir Richard Branson may come to regret

dailymail 18-NOV-11

UK recovery slowest in 100 years despite 0.5pc growth

telegraph 02-NOV-11

David Cameron makes keynote speech

thesun 05-OCT-11

Osborne: We will ride out the storm

thesun 03-OCT-11

German politician suggests Greek eurozone exit

RTERadio 02-OCT-11

Miliband pledges to reshape British society with 'new bargain'

24dash 27-SEP-11

Labour Party Conference 2011: Ed Balls refuses to apologise over Labour's economic record

telegraph 27-SEP-11

Labour promises to cap tuition fees at £6,000

dailymail 25-SEP-11

Miliband vows to cut tuition fees to £6,000

telegraph 24-SEP-11

IMF cuts growth forecast for UK

bbc 20-SEP-11

Growing number of unions to ballot on strike action

channel4news 14-SEP-11

All smiles – but George Osborne and Christine Lagarde are worlds apart on UK economy

independent 10-SEP-11

Bank shares hit as report backs calls for major shake-up of the industry

dailymail 10-SEP-11

Drop 50p tax rate to boost growth, say 20 leading economists

dailymail 07-SEP-11

Alistair Darling reveals Labour crises row

independent 04-SEP-11

Osborne awaits crunch data

channel4news 26-JUL-11

'We will not be starved back like the miners': Public sector union boss threatens strike chaos like 1984 amid pension cuts di

dailymail 21-JUN-11

Greece's PM to reshuffle cabinet

bbc 17-JUN-11

Ed Balls calls for £13billion VAT cut

telegraph 16-JUN-11

Northern Rock to go to one buyer

bbc 15-JUN-11

Ed Miliband: Labour must not reward 'worklessness'

telegraph 13-JUN-11

I'm no plotter, says David Miliband

belfasttelegraph 12-JUN-11

Ed Balls profile: fearsome consigliere with a toxic reputation

telegraph 11-JUN-11

Labour coup: Gordon Brown's cabal hatched plot in midst of terrorist crisis

telegraph 09-JUN-11

IMF: 'no need for policy change on UK economy'

telegraph 06-JUN-11

Baby P scandal boss Sharon Shoesmith was unlawfully dismissed over handling of case

dailymail 27-MAY-11

Could Brown save Scotland for the UK?: Miliband urges Gordon to stop his old enemy Salmond breaking the Union

dailymail 08-MAY-11

Angela Eagle, David Cameron sexism row: Ed Balls pointing like a Cairo traffic policeman

dailymail 28-APR-11

Growth figure fuels recovery fears

independent 27-APR-11

Nick Clegg aide Norman Lamb threatens to quit over NHS reforms

telegraph 10-APR-11

Politics News: You've never had it so bad

sundaymail 07-APR-11

Labour leader Ed Miliband attacked for addressing anti-cuts rally as violence flared

dailymail 27-MAR-11

Budget 2011: George Osborne's strategy at risk of 'being blown off course'

guardian 24-MAR-11

Britain's chancellor plans 'budget for growth'

RTERadio 23-MAR-11

Miliband urges Clegg to stay away from AV campaign because he's too unpopular

dailymail 14-MAR-11

David Cameron declares war on red tape at Conservative spring conference

thesun 07-MAR-11

Petrol tax to be cut as drivers are forced to pay £1.41 a litre for the first time

dailymail 07-MAR-11

King’s remorse strengthens his position

ft 06-MAR-11

Britain at risk of new banking crisis - King

RTERadio 05-MAR-11

Osborne at G20: 'Britain was overpriced'

channel4news 19-FEB-11

George Osborne says stop bashing fat-cat bankers in exchange for access to their cash

thesun 10-FEB-11

VIDEO: Live: Banks statement

bbc 09-FEB-11

Tax on bank profits 'will be permanent', pledges George Osborne

dailymail 08-FEB-11

Minister breaks ranks over phone-hacking scandal

telegraph 23-JAN-11

Johnson's wife's affair with his bodyguard: Marital turmoil forced Shadow Chancellor to quit

dailymail 21-JAN-11

Johnson out, Balls in. Everyone's a winner?

channel4news 20-JAN-11

'I struggle to live with Baby P death everyday' - sacked Haringey director

24dash 07-JAN-11

Ed Balls: MI5 and the police want to keep control orders

telegraph 06-JAN-11

The Year in Review: Labour

independent 24-DEC-10

Primary league tables 2010: how to read the Key Stage 2 results

telegraph 14-DEC-10

Protesters made 'contact' with Prince Charles' wife

cnn 13-DEC-10

British students clash with police over fees

RTERadio 09-DEC-10

WikiLeaks cables: Gordon Brown an 'abysmal' prime minister

guardian 03-DEC-10

Miliband has steel, says Johnson

bbc 28-NOV-10

Migrant workers cut by a fifth as May caps work permits at 21,700

dailymail 23-NOV-10

No huskies, no north pole, but he's in for the long haul

guardian 21-NOV-10

Dubai parcel bomb from Yeman was flown in on 2 passenger planes

dailymail 31-OCT-10

Miliband benefit plea on PMQ debut

bbc 14-OCT-10

Ed Miliband: Millionaires should still get child benefit

dailymail 11-OCT-10

Tories must not expect Miliband to leap obligingly into every trap

telegraph 10-OCT-10

Miliband names young rising stars

bbc 10-OCT-10

A distinctly old-school feel to a 'new generation'

independent 09-OCT-10

Ed Miliband to unveil new shadow cabinet

telegraph 08-OCT-10

David Miliband camp blames Mandelson for defeat

independent 03-OCT-10

Ed Miliband indicates tax increase 'to protect public services'

24dash 30-SEP-10

David Miliband quits frontline politics

bbc 29-SEP-10

Labour Party Conference: Ed Miliband to attack Gordon Brown's 'boom and bust' boast

telegraph 28-SEP-10

David Miliband due at conference

bbc 27-SEP-10

Ed Miliband hails ‘new’ Labour generation

RTERadio 26-SEP-10

Labour: Voting system conjures up a gripping finish

telegraph 26-SEP-10

UK: Ed Miliband new Labour leader

euronews 25-SEP-10

Irish economy suffers contraction

aljazeera 24-SEP-10

Ken Livingstone awaits Mayoral candidate vote

24dash 24-SEP-10

Ed Miliband ends contest as favourite

telegraph 24-SEP-10

Voting closes in ‘too close to call’ Labour leadership contest

examiner 23-SEP-10

Ed Miliband's 'Guardianista' manifesto cost us Election, claims Mandelson

dailymail 20-SEP-10

Ed Miliband's 'Guardianista' manifesto cost us the Election ¿ Mandelson

dailymail 19-SEP-10

Special needs 'used too widely'

bbc 14-SEP-10

TUC: unions warn of strikes over 'obscene cuts'

telegraph 13-SEP-10

Burnham wants Labour leadership rules change

channel4news 13-SEP-10

I would never compare Ed to Forrest Gump: David Miliband on the defensive as younger brother inches ahead in Labour leadershi

dailymail 12-SEP-10

Royal Mail 'must be sold' to save universal postal service

dailymail 10-SEP-10

MPs call for new phone-hacking probe

channel4news 06-SEP-10

Gen Sir Richard Dannatt: Blair lacked 'moral courage' and Brown was 'malign'

dailymail 06-SEP-10

Balls enters 'phone hacking' row

bbc 04-SEP-10

Poll 'backs move from New Labour'

bbc 04-SEP-10

Senior Tories pile pressure on Hague over 'foolishness'

independent 03-SEP-10

PM backs William Hague over rumours

channel4news 02-SEP-10

Baby P boss wins appeal go-ahead

YorkshirePost 02-SEP-10

Tony Blair: Gordon Brown tried to blackmail me

telegraph 01-SEP-10

Labour's leadership contenders

euronews 01-SEP-10

Imports drag down second-quarter US growth

euronews 27-AUG-10

Ed Balls warns of economic 'hurricane'

telegraph 27-AUG-10

Clegg slams 'partial' IFS report

bbc 25-AUG-10

Labour leadership contest: David Miliband turns fire on brother Ed

telegraph 25-AUG-10

Follett gives Ed Balls £100,000

bbc 12-AUG-10

One in five children fails to make grade in science, shock results show

dailymail 10-AUG-10

Government considers scrapping free milk for under-fives

telegraph 08-AUG-10

Barclays smashes City forecasts but warns we're 'still in the tunnel'

telegraph 06-AUG-10

Andy Burnham attacks Labour leadership rivals, calling Milibands 'elitist' and blaming Ed Balls for fuelling party division

dailymail 01-AUG-10

Andy Burnham attacks Miliband brothers in Labour leadership battle

telegraph 31-JUL-10

Voters love Dave, but is his playmate about to topple off the seesaw?

dailymail 25-JUL-10

Gove: Academies will prevent UK 'falling behind'

bbc 20-JUL-10

We achieved most aims - Mandelson

bbc 18-JUL-10

Mandelson reveals Labour 'despair' under Gordon Brown's leadership

24dash 13-JUL-10

Labour figures fear revelations in Peter Mandelson's memoirs will derail fightback attempts

dailymail 12-JUL-10

Gove faces school axe challenge

bbc 12-JUL-10

Mandelson blamed for Labour's election 'disaster'

independent 11-JUL-10

Lord Meddlesome

newsoftheworld 10-JUL-10

MPs round on 'pipsqueak' Michael Gove as Education over building plan blunder

dailymail 08-JUL-10

Sacked council chief tells of Baby P 'distress'

independent 06-JUL-10

Strike warning over UK jobs

bbc 05-JUL-10

Adult drinking 'scares' children

bbc 05-JUL-10

School building plan scrapped to save £1bn

channel4news 05-JUL-10

Women hit by coalition government Budget

telegraph 05-JUL-10

Public sector cuts: axe begins to swing

channel4news 04-JUL-10

Labour leader hopefuls make pitch

bbc 04-JUL-10

BUDGET 2010: John Redwood tells middle classes to turn down heating if they're feeling the pinch

dailymail 24-JUN-10

Budget FactCheck: housing benefit and taxes

channel4news 23-JUN-10

Budget 'tough but fair' - Osborne

bbc 22-JUN-10

BUDGET 2010: VAT hike to 20% 'will hit jobs and hamper growth'

dailymail 22-JUN-10

Freezin's to be cheerful

thesun 21-JUN-10

Government to review 'unsustainable' public sector pensions

24dash 21-JUN-10

It's time for the rubber to hit the road... not for croquet at Dorneywood

dailymail 20-JUN-10

Cameron emerges from first EU summit unscathed

channel4news 17-JUN-10

Diane Abbott gets to leadership starting line (with a little push from David Miliband)

thetimes 10-JUN-10

McDonnell withdraws from Labour leadership race 'to secure a woman on ballot paper'

24dash 09-JUN-10

Leadership: Runners and riders

bbc 08-JUN-10

Ed Balls urges EU immigration cap

independent 06-JUN-10

Campbell: Ed Miliband isn't up to leading Labour

independent 06-JUN-10

Abbott launches leader bid

bbc 02-JUN-10

Coalition wobbles in bid to keep its balance

sundaytimes 31-MAY-10

Head teachers lukewarm after schools are invited to become academies

sundaytimes 27-MAY-10

Kinnock: Ed has X-Factor

thesun 24-MAY-10

[said:]: The time has now come for David Cameron and George Osborne to realise their economic gamble – cutting spending and raising taxes too far and too fast – has backfired.

dailymail 25-JAN-12

[said:]: The British recovery has been stalling since the Government's spending review in the autumn of 2010, but now the economy has gone into reverse. Since the Chancellor's spending review the economy has grown by just 0.3%, compared to the 3.0% the Government predicted.

independent 25-JAN-12

[said:]: The time has now come for David Cameron and George Osborne to listen to advice, including yesterday from the chief economist of the IMF.

independent 25-JAN-12

[said:]: Cutting spending and raising taxes too far and too fast has backfired.

thesun 25-JAN-12

[said:]: The time has come for Cameron and Osborne to realise that cutting spending and raising taxes has backfired.

themirror 25-JAN-12

[ said]: Last year the IMF was clear that if growth undershot expectations then the British government should reconsider the pace of spending cuts and tax rises which choked off our recovery well before the recent eurozone crisis, pushed up unemployment and has seen borrowing forecasts soar,

myjoyonline 24-JAN-12

[-argued]: – back on its feet.

guardian 17-JAN-12

[said:]: I can't just promise to people that I can just wave a magic wand and be able to spend more and tax less.

guardian 15-JAN-12

[said:]: I understand the anger in the public and private sectors at that income squeeze - but the reality is, given the economy failing as it is, that pay restraint is going to have to continue.

telegraph 15-JAN-12

[-told]: The idea that the public sector staff who make this country tick are going to head to the polls and vote for a Labour party that supports up to a 20% cut in their living standards, while the spivs and speculators who caused the crisis are laughing all the way to the bank, is a sick joke and a total betrayal of trade union members who fund the party.

guardian 14-JAN-12

[says:]: It is now inevitable that public sector pay restraint will have to continue through this parliament

irishsun 13-JAN-12

[says:]: You have to prepare the ground so that when the question is asked, you are the answer.

guardian 22-DEC-11

[-said]: Implementing strategy takes time. It's always difficult when, for a period, you get ahead of where the public are.

guardian 22-DEC-11

[-said]: Our opportunity starts now.

guardian 22-DEC-11

[said:]: It is vital that the Government now implements these important banking reforms without foot-dragging, back-sliding or watering them down.

independent 19-DEC-11

[said:]: Nothing should be done to put at risk a light-touch regime.

thesun 13-DEC-11

[said:]: We must keep the UK's regulatory system at the cutting edge ... At all times we will apply a system of risk-based regulation, without unnecessary administration burdens... Nothing should be done to put at risk a light-touch regulatory regime.

independent 13-DEC-11

[ says]: China Brazil, India, these are countries which are growing and investing,

bbc 12-DEC-11

[said:]: I think it is sensible to look at value for money ways to make long-term infrastructure plans. But let’s be clear this is off-budget financing which needs to pass the value for money test and is PFI by any other name.

icWales 02-DEC-11

[said:]: The very bleak assessment that we heard from the Chancellor the other day [Autumn statement] assumed that the eurozone crisis is solved.

icWales 02-DEC-11

[said:]: The oil price shock can't explain why Britain has done so much worse over the last year than America or the eurozone.

bbc 01-DEC-11

[said:]: The chancellor's out-of-touch and complacent hubris of a year ago now seems such a distant memory. The prime minister boasted that Britain was out of the danger zone and the chancellor claimed that the UK was a safe haven, but we know the truth: cutting too far and too fast has backfired and all his claims of a year ago have completely unravelled. It is not as if they were not warned, including by their coalition colleagues.

guardian 29-NOV-11

[-said]: Cutting too far and too fast has backfired ... If you try and cut spending and raise taxes too far and too fast you risk choking off recovery,

channelnewsasia 29-NOV-11

[-told]: The country either needs a new Chancellor or a new plan ... The Chancellor needs to change course and he needs to do so now,

kuwaittimes 29-NOV-11

[ said]: failing

bbc 29-NOV-11

[said:]: I would urge the government to get round the table, give some ground and sort this out.

independent 28-NOV-11

[added:]: It was his decisions that choked off the recovery.

sundaymail 28-NOV-11

[said:]: I would urge the Government to get round the table, give some ground and sort this out.

independent 28-NOV-11

[said:]: I would urge the government to get round the table, give some ground and sort this out, it is terrible we are going to have a strike on Wednesday.

bbc 27-NOV-11

[-said]: Those that do the right thing and work hard, we want to do right by.

guardian 21-NOV-11

[-told]: They went in to it with open eyes and the possibility of progress,

smh 21-NOV-11

[admits:]: Antiques Roadshow makes me cry.

telegraph 21-NOV-11

[ said]: I am afraid it is rather small beer in its scale,

bbc 21-NOV-11

[-told]: I cry at the Antiques Roadshow,

guardian 21-NOV-11

[ said]: I think there is a question as to whether or not this is the best time,

telegraph 20-NOV-11

[said:]: Our Chancellor's head is buried in the sand.

belfasttelegraph 11-NOV-11

[said:]: I don't think that is the right stimulus myself – but I think a tax cut and spending on infrastructure now is the only way to get the economy moving, unemployment down and to get our deficit down.

guardian 11-NOV-11

[said:]: For the second time in two weeks we've had a summit which has really failed to come out with any answers.

thesun 05-NOV-11

[said:]: Our recovery was choked off well before the eurozone crisis by spending cuts and tax rises which go too far, too fast.

sundaymail 05-NOV-11

[said:]: You can't dismiss this. These are real concerns of communities up and down our country.

bbc 04-NOV-11

[-said]: The IMF's job is to support individual countries with solvency crises, not to solve a structural problem caused by eurozone countries being unable to agree the necessary steps to support and maintain their monetary union,

guardian 03-NOV-11

[-said]: The only way to properly ensure market confidence in the eurozone is for the European Central Bank, alongside the bailout fund, to be given the political support it needs to act as lender of last resort when liquidity problems arise. That is the logic of the monetary union these 17 countries signed up to,

guardian 03-NOV-11

[saying:]: Today's figures confirm that the British economy has been bumping along the bottom for the past 12 months flatlining when we need strong growth to get unemployment and the deficit down.

telegraph 02-NOV-11

[ said]: These are really worrying times for families and pensioners struggling to pay the bills, young people out of work in record numbers and businesses on the edge,

economictimes 01-NOV-11

[said:]: The fact is that our recovery was choked off well before the eurozone crisis of recent months by spending cuts and tax rises which go too far and too fast.

independent 01-NOV-11

[-warned that]: If we are to avoid repeating the mistakes of that 1930s lost decade, the world badly needs a new deal, and soon. But from where will the leadership come? And how long will we have to wait?

guardian 27-OCT-11

[said:]: The world badly needs a change of course at the forthcoming G20 summit.

guardian 27-OCT-11

[said:]: The eurozone going into a protracted crisis would make things worse for us, and therefore we all really hope this deal is going to work... but that does not solve Britain's problem.

bbc 27-OCT-11

[ said]: Five immediate steps the Government could take tomorrow - and if they do so, we will back them,

independent 27-SEP-11

[warns:]: These are the darkest most dangerous times certainly in my lifetime... Something most of us have not read about apart from in the history books, a decade of economic stagnation,

telegraph 27-SEP-11

[ says]: wants unions to strike

independent 27-SEP-11

[added:]: I think that's very 1980s. We are in a different place now, the world's moved on, we should be working together to sort out problems.

independent 27-SEP-11

[said:]: If George Osborne really wants to sort this out, he should get round the table and have serious discussions with the trade unions.

independent 27-SEP-11

[says:]: I think it is quite conceivable we’ll have a coalition of the Liberal Democrats … I would be amazed if that coalition ever had Nick Clegg at the head of it.

channel4news 25-SEP-11

[said:]: I think it is quite conceivable we'll have a coalition of the Liberal Democrats, and I would be very happy to serve in such a coalition. I would be amazed if that coalition ever had Nick Clegg at the head of it.

telegraph 24-SEP-11

[admits that:]: tough decisions on tax and spending

telegraph 24-SEP-11

[said:]: I hope there won't be strikes. But I understand people saying,

sundaymail 16-SEP-11

[ asked]: Do you really think, when we need to get the economy moving, do you really think the first priority is not to cut VAT for families or find other ways to help families on middle incomes but to only cut to taxes for people on incomes over 150,000?

ibtimes 15-SEP-11

[ said]: incredibly dangerous

TheScotsman 15-SEP-11

[ says]: crushed confidence

guardian 09-SEP-11

[said:]: Christine Lagarde is right to repeat her warning that cutting too quickly will hurt the recovery and jobs and that there is scope for reducing deficits more steadily to support economic growth.

channel4news 09-SEP-11

[-wrote]: There must be no delay in legislation. The obvious and only way to do so is in the financial services bill. How can you possibly sort out financial regulation without including the banks?

guardian 09-SEP-11

[said:]: Christine Lagarde is right to repeat her warning that cutting too quickly will hurt the recovery and jobs and that there is scope for reducing deficits more steadily to support economic growth. This is clearly a message aimed squarely at America, the eurozone and Britain too.

bbc 09-SEP-11

[said:]: Do you really think the right priority now is to only cut taxes for people whose incomes are over £150,000 a year? That is a tiny minority of people.

independent 08-SEP-11

[-said]: The irony is that the one country which has the political strength to change course is Britain and to make their argument in the world,

guardian 08-SEP-11

[ asked]: Do you really think, when we need to get economy moving, do you really think the first priority is not to cut VAT for families or find other ways to help families on middle incomes but to only cut to taxes for people on incomes over £150,000?

guardian 08-SEP-11

[said:]: Millions of struggling families and pensioners on middle and low incomes will wonder why the only tax rise or spending cut George Osborne is willing to reconsider is the top rate of tax for the very richest.

bbc 07-SEP-11

[said:]: The British recovery was choked off last autumn, well before the global market turmoil we have seen in recent weeks.

express 07-SEP-11

[said:]: It's time George Osborne got out of his denial and admitted that Britain now faces a growth crisis, as a senior minister let slip this week. And he should listen to the head of the IMF and one of the largest investment funds in the world [Pimco]who have warned that cutting too far and too fast risks economic recovery.

bbc 06-SEP-11

[-said]: We identified the problems and the risks – an overleveraged economy, an unsustainable budget deficit and a broken model of growth.

guardian 06-SEP-11

[added:]: I have to say that if I were George Osborne at the moment, totally on the defensive on my failing economic plans, I would think there’s nothing better than a book, a memoir, some revisiting of the past.

icWales 02-SEP-11

[said:]: He never told me that was what he was doing, but there's no doubt from what Alistair's saying and what everybody else has said, and the conversations that happened in that week, that that was the plan. 'I made it clear in that week to people in government and outside I thought that was the wrong plan. 'I thought changing the chancellor in 2009 was the wrong decision and I wanted to stay in the department as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.

dailymail 02-SEP-11

[said:]: He never told me that was what he was doing but there’s no doubt from what Alistair’s saying and what everybody else has said, and the conversations that happened in that week, that it was the plan.

heraldscotland 02-SEP-11

[said:]: I have to say that if I were George Osborne at the moment, totally on the defensive on my failing economic plans, I would think there's nothing better than a book, a memoir, some revisiting of the past.

independent 01-SEP-11

[said:]: He never told me that was what he was doing, but there's no doubt from what Alistair's saying and what everybody else has said, and the conversations that happened in that week, that that was the plan.

independent 01-SEP-11

[said:]: He never told me that was what he was doing, but there’s no doubt from what Alistair’s saying and what everybody else has said, and the conversations that happened in that week, that that was the plan.

telegraph 01-SEP-11

[said:]: Families and businesses, deeply worried about their jobs and mortgages, will hear your talk of

TheScotsman 12-AUG-11

[ said]: We do need a tough, medium-term plan to get our deficit down,

bbc 11-AUG-11

[said:]: Here in Britain families and businesses, deeply worried about their jobs and mortgages, will hear your talk of

icWales 11-AUG-11

[said:]: In Britain we should have secured last year's recovery. However George Osborne's (Finance secretary) policies have now kicked in, abolishing jobs programmes, raising VAT, destroying confidence - and our economy has flat-lined.

kuna 07-AUG-11

[said last night:]: The problem in Britain is that George Osborne's plan is not working. By trying to go too far and too fast, confidence has been knocked and last year's recovery has been choked off. The government's reaction to the credit rating agency's downgrade is once again deeply complacent.

telegraph 07-AUG-11

[said:]: It is the absence of growth in the US, in Europe and in Britain too, and the absence of a credible plan to get our economies growing again, that is undermining confidence and has sent equity markets plummeting in recent days.

express 07-AUG-11

[-has argued that]: Despite this, Fathom believes the austerity package should still be implemented – even in the event of the downside risk materialising.

guardian 02-AUG-11

[ said]: Ministers need to be able to exercise their legal duties and make judgments in the public interest based on independent analysis and advice,

independent 02-AUG-11

[-told]: When there is a hurricane you do not rip the foundations out of your own house. That is exactly what George Osborne has done,

MailGuardian 02-AUG-11

[-said]: Families, pensioners and businesses can feel that tax rises and spending cuts, which go too far and too fast, are hurting, but it's increasingly clear that they aren't working,

MailGuardian 02-AUG-11

[said:]: I am very surprised and concerned by the supreme court's decision to refuse to hear this appeal.

guardian 02-AUG-11

[ said]: George Osborne hailed this flagship policy last year saying it could create 800,000 private sector jobs. But it's turned out to be a total flop with just 1pc of the 400,000 businesses George Osborne said would benefit taking advantage,

telegraph 31-JUL-11

[said:]: George Osborne hailed this flagship policy last year saying it could create 800,000 private sector jobs. But it's turned out to be a total flop.

telegraph 30-JUL-11

[ said]: At a time of global uncertainty, George Osborne’s rash decision to hike up VAT in January and cut further and faster than any other major economy has caused confidence to fall and the economy to flatline since the autumn,

icWales 27-JUL-11

[said:]: He ripped up the foundations of the house as the global economic hurricane was brewing, undermining our recovery well before the recent problems in the eurozone and America and leaving us dangerously exposed if things now go wrong there. Instead of clutching at excuses like too much snow in winter and too much sun in the spring, George Osborne needs to realise he only has himself to blame for the choices he made a year ago.

independent 27-JUL-11

[ said]: These figures show that last year's recovery has been recklessly choked off by George Osborne's VAT rise and spending review,

egovmonitor 27-JUL-11

[-said]: Families, pensioners and businesses can feel that tax rises and spending cuts which go too far and too fast are hurting, but it's increasingly clear that they aren't working,

guardian 26-JUL-11

[added:]: The economy has effectively flat-lined for nine months and this is very bad news for jobs, living standards, business investment and for getting the deficit down.

timesofindia 26-JUL-11

Bob Crow [said:]: Ed Balls and Ed Miliband doomed the Labour Party to electoral defeat by lining up with the Tory-led coalition's cuts and their attacks on public sector workers and that view is widely held across the trade union movement.

ibtimes 17-JAN-12

Bob Crow [said:]: At the weekend Ed Balls and Ed Milliband doomed the Labour Party to electoral defeat by lining up with the Tory led coalition's cuts and their attacks on public sector workers and that view is widely held across the trade union movement.

independent 17-JAN-12

Bob Crow [said:]: By lining up with the Tory-led coalition on the assault on public sector pay, Ed Balls will today sign Labour's electoral suicide note as he alienates his core voters in their millions.

telegraph 14-JAN-12

Bob Crow [said:]: By lining up with the Tory-led coalition on the assault on public sector pay, Ed Balls will today sign Labour's electoral suicide note as he alienates his core voters in their millions. 'The idea that the public sector staff who make this country tick are going to head to the polls and vote for a Labour Party that supports up to a 20 per cent cut in their living standards, while the spivs and speculators who caused the crisis are laughing all the way to the bank, is a sick joke and a total betrayal of trade

mailonsunday 14-JAN-12

Howard Archer [ said]: Balls told parliament. The new figures bring the government broadly into line with independent forecasters. The OECD rich nations' economic think-tank said on Monday that Britain will slip back into a modest recession early next year. It lowered its 2012 growth forecast to just 0.5 percent and urged the Bank of England to expand its money-printing program. The near-term forecasts are broadly similar to our own but I think the long-term forecasts-out to 2016 -- are very optimistic given that fiscal restrain

kuwaittimes 29-NOV-11

Miliband [said:]: I think that Ed Balls has been right about this [growth]. He's been right about this more than anybody,

guardian 25-SEP-11

Campbell [-wrote]: TB … said he had just about had enough of Ed Balls talking to him like something on his shoe,

guardian 03-JUL-11

John Swinney [said:]: The hypocrisy of Ed Balls has reduced Labour to a total laughing stock in Scotland he was a member of the Government at Westminster, which crashed the economy and put in place spending cuts that are deeper and tougher than those of Margaret Thatcher.

telegraph 27-APR-11

Keith Vaz [ said]: The numbers estimated by various stakeholders including the Police Federation, Association of Police Authorities and the former Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, range from 11,000 to 20,000. These changes in addition to the introduction of elected police commissioners would bring profound changes how policing works. The report expresses concern that most of the changes to policing would take place while Britain is hosting the Olympics in 2012. While the government is asking police forces not to cut front lin

egovmonitor 23-FEB-11