Labour fails to win poll boost from banking crisis 20/10/08
Gordon Brown is winning praise but not votes for his handling of the financial crisis, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows the Conservatives maintaining a double-digit lead, enough for a Commons majority, despite the transformation of the prime minister's reputation at Westminster. [Guardian]
Gordon Brown defends level of national debt 20/10/08
Gordon Brown today defended the level of Britain's national debt – claiming it is "considerably lower" than a decade ago. The prime minister told MPs that it was because the government had repaid so much of its debt in previous years that it was able to borrow more now. [Guardian]
Financial crisis leaves David Cameron with few options 20/10/08
Last week, in an article about what David Cameron and his circle were thinking about the political consequences of the global financial crisis, ConservativeHome reported: "The Tories are not worried about being largely out of the news." [Guardian]
David Cameron is back - but he's storing up trouble for himself with this speech 20/10/08
“Is David Cameron at liberty to attack Gordon Brown's economic record as chancellor and prime minister? Of course he is. That's what we pay an opposition for: to oppose. He also produced a joke I hadn't heard.
Yet to hear some of this morning's talk about breaking the "political truce" during a financial crisis, you'd think he'd done something terrible like push the Brown kids off their tricycles and grazed their tiny knees.” [Guardian]
Salmond blames 'sub-prime minister' for banking disaster 20/10/08
Alex Salmond yesterday blamed Gordon Brown for the economic "calamity" that has forced the government to find £200bn to bail out the UK's banking sector.
The Scottish National party leader accused Brown of "presiding over the biggest economic reverse for a generation", deriding him as the "sub-prime minister". [Guardian]
'Insolvency arc' may influence Scottish poll 20/10/08
Michael White on the effects of the current financial crisis on the SNP’s political fortunes. [Guardian]
Darling invokes Keynes as he eases spending rules to fight recession 20/10/08
The Treasury confirmed yesterday it intends to fast-track spending planned for future years as Alistair Darling signalled that he will use next month's pre-budget report to relax Labour's long-standing fiscal rules to head off the worst effects of the recession.
Over the weekend the chancellor indicated that the government would seek to reflate the economy with a period of targeted spending on large infrastructure projects. Darling said yesterday that the economic thinking of legendary economist John Maynard Keynes was coming back into vogue. [Guardian]
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