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It emerged last night (29th November 2008) that Tory MPs have been so concerned about their private offices being, covertly bugged that they have regularly had them ’swept’. This says a lot about an informed perception of the present Government’s…

A Treasury document was discovered on the Government website a few hours ago, late on Monday 24th November. It was a briefing paper on the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report - but with additional measures not contained in the issued version.

This document makes…

Amongst the heavy use of smoke and mirrors in the Pre-Budget Report, there are three headline stories.

• The Chancellor has made the biggest ever cut to growth forecasts - dropping from his forecast of 2.75% to 0.5% for this year, then…

Another political trick, designed more to stifle the opposition than achieve anything significant, is the leaked plan to introduce a new higher rate of tax - but not now. It will be in the Labour Party Manifesto for the next…

Post-Glenrothes hubris was always going to lure Gordon Brown into a step too far. But so soon? It has emerged that in pursuit of his strategy of entering a UK football team in the 2012 Olympics,  new Scottish Secretary, Jim…

With more than a touch of hubris, Gordon Brown tried an early shot at goal in the aftermath of the banking crisis that has seen the possible part-nationalisation of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Halifax Bank of Scotland…

It has emerged that the UK Government knew in July 2008 of the instability in the Icelandic banks (and indeed The Herald’s Alf Young mentioned the situation in an article in that paper on 28th March) .

The question will be…

The Prime Minister, the Chancellor, the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chair of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) went into what can only be described as an emergency meeting at 5.00pm this evening.

As we have reported earlier,…

The FTSE has its worst crash since 1987, with - finally, almost £93 billion wiped off share values. The Prime Minister of Iceland goes on television to inform his country that it may go bankrupt. His government passes emergency legislation…

The BBC’s Business Editor, Robert Peston, has revealed that the announcement yesterday by German Chancellor Angela Merkel was no different from the verbal-only guarantee given to British savers by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and repeated by Chancellor Alastair Darling. This…