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Autumn statement 2012

January 2013

  • Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, is opening the welfare benefits uprating bill debate.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs vote on 1% benefits cap: Politics live blog

    Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including MPs debating the welfare benefits uprating bill which imposes a 1% benefits cap

  • Steve Bell's If ...
    Steve Bell's If ... on the George Osborne show

    Steve Bell

    Steve Bell's If ...

  • George Osborne

    UK credit rating threatened with S&P downgrade

  • George Osborne, the chancellor, is being questioned by MPs on the Treasury committee about the autumn statement.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    George Osborne questioned by MPs about autumn statement: Politics live blog

  • Mother and daughter

    Labour's line in the sand on benefits

    Ruth Lister
    Ruth Lister: George Osborne's rhetorical traps won't make Labour turn against people already struggling to get by on benefits
  • OBR director Robert Chote

    OBR chief warns George Osborne not to rely on borrowing forecasts

    Robert Chote tells MPs he would not stake his reputation on the Office for Budget Responsibility's autumn statement predictions
  • Labour response to chancellor's cynical ploy

    Letters: Labour should make it clear now that we are not voting for this attack on the poorest, which includes cutting benefits to many people in work and struggling to survive on low pay
  • Vince Cable at his home in Twickenham

    'George Osborne demonised people who are out of work. That is wrong'

  • Will Hutton

    George Osborne's savage attack on benefits is an affront to British decency

    Will Hutton
  • David Simonds fat cat tax 09.12.12

    Business leader
    A government so quick to join the race to the bottom is no friend of tax reform

  • Chris Riddell on the chancellor’s austere autumn statement.

    Observer comment cartoon
    The smirking axeman

    Chris Riddell
  • Welfare state: Ed Miliband can strike a blow for social equity

  • Heather Stewart's economics comment
    Autumn statement: compassionate conservatism is now officially dead

    Heather Stewart
  • Men and women walking over London Bridge

    Income tax: the good and bad news from the autumn statement

  • Sir William Beveridge

    Meet the real William Beveridge

    Geoffrey Wheatcroft
  • Illustration by Gillian Blease

    The environmental cost of Osborne's dash for gas

  • Social security cuts: hard times

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the autumn statement – cartoon

    Martin Rowson
  • Why teachers and students suffer from performance-related pay

    Richard Seymour
  • Lord Adonis interview: 'Little positive has happened as result of coalition'

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