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Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Commons Treasury select committee, has criticised the government's long-term economic policies as "inconsistent and incoherent" and said other key parts of strategy were contradictory, and at best irrelevant.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has demanded five immediate actions to avert further financial turmoil.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended his party's support for the coalition's spending cuts and pledged to create a "firewall" to protect retail banking customers from speculative investments.

Business secretary Vince Cable today called for a policy of "stability, stimulus and solidarity" to aid Britain's financial recovery.

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has added to coalition tensions over the future of the 50p top rate of income tax with a warning to Tories against 'helping their friends in the City'.

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Financial secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, has announced that two deregulatory amendments to the EU Prospectus Directive have been brought into effect a year early by the UK to help small businesses access equity finance more cheaply and effectively....

Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has ruled out cutting the top rate of tax, after former Tory chancellor Lord Lamont called for tax cuts over the weekend.

The Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) has called revelations of NHS Trusts using cost cutting tactics that result in patients dying or force them into private treatment as "a cynical approach" and "regrettable".

MPs pensions will be subject to the same reforms as the wider public sector and a new scheme will be launched in 2015, the leader of the Commons said.