Jyrki Katainen, Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, said: “EU rules protect and empower 500 million people in the Single Market. They can live, work and do business in any EU country. All of this is only possible when … read more
John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, commenting on today’s IFS analysis of the public finances, said:
“Today’s analysis by the IFS reveals the failure of seven years of Tory Government.
“Despite promising to balance the books by 2015, the IFS says the UK’s public finances ‘compare unfavourably to other advanced economies’ with the fifth largest deficit and the sixth largest debt pile.
“The IFS points to ‘persistently poor economic growth’ as one of the factors explaining the UK’s poor public finances.
“It is clear that under the Tories working people have suffered from sluggish growth, soaring debt and stagnating pay.
“Only Labour has a proper plan for the public finances underpinned by our Fiscal Credibility Rule, which will allow us to grow the economy and deliver for the many, not the few.”
read moreThis Thursday, voters across Scotland will go to the polls to decide who runs their local council for the next 5 years. read more
China is to issue its first regulation on how the big data from the health sector is collected, stored and used. Jin Xiaotao, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said the regulation will be issued soon, as the nation a… read more
