Ed Conway

For me, the most striking thing I learnt from the Bank of England today wasn’t that the buy-to-let market is looking a little bubbly. I wasn’t surprised that BTL accounts for such a large and growing chunk of mortgage lending, as per this chart: [https://i0.wp.com/

Now what? The Government has signalled an embarrassing (not to mention expensive) u-turn, reversing its cuts to Personal Independence Payments – the disability benefit scheme. Leaving aside the enormous political questions [http://news.sky.com/story/1663944/pm-absolutely-has-confidence-in-osborne] for the time being, how on earth will it afford it? We have

This is a tale of two Budgets. The first is the one you heard about from George Osborne in the House of Commons today; the second is the one going on underneath the surface – the one he didn’t want you to see. The first Budget – the one Mr Osborne

Ahead of this year’s Budget here are some of the key numbers, and charts, to keep an eye on. First, here’s total government spending The big picture. One question is whether the extra spending cuts George Osborne imposes bring the total government spending figure down to the lowest

The conventional wisdom is that tomorrow’s Budget will be a damp squib, and if you take a moment to consider the constraints facing the Chancellor, you can probably understand why everyone’s so convinced of this. You’ve got George Osborne’s (silly [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/

One can answer the question a few different ways. First off you can look in simple terms at the number of applications per country. You get a chart that looks like this: However, if you want to get a sense of the degree of social impact caused by the influx