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Fitch Strips UK Of AAA Credit Rating

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.04.2013 | UK

Ratings agency Fitch has stripped the UK of its AAA rating due to its "weaker economic and fiscal outlook". The agency placed the UK on an AA+ rating,...

Eastleigh and The Rivers of Blood

Jawad Yaqub | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Politics
Jawad Yaqub

Nigel Farage was quipping that the Tories split the UKIP vote in Eastleigh - ouch. With the recent decline of the BNP and soon to be expired incarceration of the EDL leader Stephen Lennon - their masses of frustrated followers have found their mouthpiece in Farrage.

Osborne Facing Calls For Spending Cuts After Credit Downgrading

PA | Posted 25.02.2013 | UK Politics

George Osborne was facing renewed demands from the Tory rank-and-file for tax and spending cuts tonight after Britain was stripped of its prized AAA c...

Six UK Credit Rating Quotes Osborne Might Regret

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 06.12.2012 | UK Politics

On Wednesday, it emerged that Britain's top-tier AAA credit rating could be under threat. As the UK economy falls further behind its debt reduction t...

Are the Credit Ratings Agencies Out of Control?

Greg Secker | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK
Greg Secker

Make no mistake, Moody's decision to put the UK's prized AAA credit rating on negative outlook last month would have sent a sharp shock of panic through the trading floors of the city and of course Westminster.

We Cannot Waver: Osborne Defiant As AAA Rating Under Fresh Threat

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 14.02.2012 | UK

George Osborne has insisted the government will continue its unpopular austerity programme despite coming under increased pressure as Britain's prized...

No Guarantee UK Will Keep Its Triple A Rating

Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.12.2011 | UK Politics

There is "no guarantee" the UK will keep its AAA credit rating, a Tory MP warned on Friday morning. Eurosceptic Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin said...

IMF Boss Says Gloomy Times Ahead

Posted 15.12.2011 | UK

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, has issued a stark warning to world markets by claiming the future is “gloomy” and every economy ...