Hints and tips:
...“He was going to be the prime minister of rainbows and unicorns,” said Carl Vallée, a Montreal-based political strategist and former Conservative government adviser....
...Carl Emmerson, deputy director, IFS I think I would stress the uncertainty here....
...Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies: Clearly there is a wide spread of views over whether the Government’s fiscal tightening is going “too fast”....
...Carl Emmerson, IFS I think it will be too early to tell whether Plan A is working out as the government intends or whether a Plan B should be implemented....
...Carl Emmerson, IFS In his first spring Budget Mr Osborne’s top priority should be a long-term strategic vision for the tax system....
...John Philpott, CIPD My main interest is in the labour market....
...John Philpott, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development There should be no serious consolidation before 2011....
...Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director,Institute for Fiscal Studies: It will be very hard to assess how much of the lost output is permanent until growth has recovered....
...John Philpott, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development “In the long-run we’re all dead”. There is no better maxim against which to judge what is currently fiscally prudent....
...Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director,Institute for Fiscal Studies Not going to tackle this one directly....
...“Of course everyone will claim that Ericsson is stepping back into the fixed market with this deal,” wrote Ovum’s Michael Philpott and Jean-Charles Douneau....
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