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...and the IMF. The Tories have privately ruled out imposing a Tobin tax on financial transactions following Gordon Brown's embarrassing slap-down by US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at the G20 summit this weekend. But they are...

In this article: Balance sheet, Tax, IMF, Tories, Paul Tucker, Tim Geithner, Bank of England, Gordon Brown, and US

...debating "the shape of things to come" at the CBI's annual conference on 23 November. Speakers at the event include Conservative Party leader David Cameron, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial...

In this article: Stephen Hester, Stuart Rose, Financial Services Authority, Liberal Democrat, Marks & Spencer, Adair Turner, David Cameron, and International Monetary Fund

But in a noisy confrontation Mr Brown declared again and again that the Tories had got everything wrong on the recession, with their anti-stimulus policies opposed by all countries in the International Monetary Fund and the EU. Mr...

In this article: Tony Blair, European Union, Gordon Brown, Recession, David Cameron, Tories, International Monetary Fund, and Europe

News of the meetings follows claims that Treasury figures leaked earlier this week by the Tories imply the UK will have to embark upon the tightest squeeze on public spending since the IMF-imposed cuts of the late 1970s. The cuts...

In this article: Recession, Labour, Alistair Darling, TUC, Unemployment, BBC Radio 4, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Tories

...said: "When David Blanchflower says Britain shouldn't even start reducing the deficit until 2012, he is disagreeing not just with the Conservative Party, but with the Governor of the Bank of England, the IMF and even the Government's own...

In this article: Unemployment, David Blanchflower, George Osborne, Bank of England, Recession, Dartmouth College, IMF, New Statesman, and Gordon Brown

...them in the early 1990s - the trade unions, the bomb or the IMF. If the Tories can make voters believe that they are to politics as Jamie is to food, they're onto a winner. Comments In order to see comments, please turn JavaScript on in...

In this article: Jamie Oliver, Labour Party, Tories, Tony Blair, Vinegar, Potato, Tax, and JavaScript

Voters will be faced with a "big choice" between a dogma-driven Conservative Party which is "relishing the chance to swing the axe at the public services millions rely on" and Labour which will protect frontline services from cuts, he said.

In this article: Alistair Darling, Recession, George Osborne, David Cameron, Waste, and Unemployment

...of 3.8 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively. "It will be a day of reckoning," main opposition Conservative Party lawmaker George Osborne told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday. He said Darling will likely "forecast the longest...

In this article: Alistair Darling, Recession, Tax, World War II, Gordon Brown, Supply chain, Credit crunch, and Bankruptcy

...the books, revealed the kind of solutions that may need to be considered. Can the Tories really cut harder than Thatcher, while causing less social pain? Labour will try to exploit nagging doubts about whether Osborne's sums add up by...

In this article: George Osborne, David Cameron, Eric Pickles, Labour Party, Chris Grayling, and Revenue