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Mark Pack

Chris Huhne on how Cameron is getting it wrong on the economy

By Mark Pack | Fri 24th October 2008 - 8:17 am

Chris Huhne writes for The Guardian today:

There are clear dangers in managing the public finances over the next few years, but nothing merits the sort of intemperate scaremongering that Cameron and George Osborne have been whipping up. Cameron said on Monday: “We ought now to be cutting people’s taxes to put money back into the economy, but we can’t because they’ve got the biggest budget deficit in the modern industrial world.” And in his big economic speech last Friday: ” borrowed and borrowed and borrowed, and racked up the biggest government deficit in the developed world.”

This is just wrong, plain

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Stephen Tall

Huhne refers Osborne to Electoral Commission; Baker refers Osborne to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner

By Stephen Tall | Thu 23rd October 2008 - 6:28 pm

It’s been a busy day for two of the Lib Dems’ most tenacious shadow cabinet members today, with both Chris Huhne and Norman Baker urging investigations into Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne’s donation discussions with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

Chris Huhne wrote to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, George Sam Younger*, asking him to confirm:

that a donation by a foreign citizen not resident and on the electoral register in the UK ‘channelled’ through a conduit such as a UK trading company would be illegal. If so, there is a prima facie case for considering whether Mr Osborne and Mr

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Will Howells

Cable better Chancellor than Osborne say political studies academics

By Will Howells | Wed 29th November 2006 - 10:41 am

Members of the Political Studies Association polled by Ipsos MORI in advance of last night’s PSA Awards rated Dr Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Chancellor, as a more capable potential Chancellor of the Exchequer than Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne.

Gordon Brown, the incumbent, took 68% of the response to the question “Who do you think would make the most capable Chancellor of the Exchequer?” Eight percent of the nearly 300 academics polled said Vince Cable, twice as many as the 4% support for George Osborne.

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