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  Nick Clegg claims coalition government expects to be unpopular

  21 May 2010: Deputy prime minister believes committing to five-year term was essential to 'get through pain' of cutting public finances

• Osborne tells CBI of five-year plan to cut corporation tax

  19 May 2010: Chancellor uses first speech to reassure employers that he wants to simplify taxation regime and eventually reduce headline rate

• Britain needs an affordable foreign policy

  19 May 2010: Alistair Burnett: Whether or not Britain edges away from the 'special relationship', it no longer has the resources to be a global player

• Public finance watchdog installed 'to stop chancellors fiddling the figures'

  18 May 2010: George Osborne gives powers to new office to restore faith in government forecasts for growth

• George Osborne to set out £6bn spending cuts next Monday

  17 May 2010: Chancellor also reveals he will deliver emergency budget on 22 June

• UK public spending since 1963

  17 May 2010:

  Back when the Beatles were having their first number one, the government spent £12bn a year, now it's over £600bn. See how the numbers have changed

• Bank governor Mervyn King backs spending cuts in coalition's first budget

  12 May 2010: Bank of England chief says it is vital for government to start tackling Britain's budget deficit without delay

• Profile: David Laws

  12 May 2010: The new chief secretary to the Treasury is set to become Britain's most unpopular politician as he cuts the deficit

• Unemployment benefit claimants constituency by constituency: full data

  12 May 2010:

  Unemployment is rising and now - for the first time - these are the unemployment benefit claimant numbers in each of the 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Get them where you live

• Some people have God. I have Hubble

  1 May 2010:

  For 20 years, the space telescope has been sending us images of breathtaking beauty

• Old faultlines persist among parties on how to help poor through tax changes

  28 Apr 2010:

  Labour proposals would benefit low-income families, but Liberal Democrat reforms are the most radical

• Tax receipts since 1963

  25 Apr 2010:

  Withou the tax income the government has to borrow more from the markets. Here is the historic tax receipts data

• Alistair Darling's career – in Sun headlines

  9 Apr 2010: The chancellor's surname is a gift to waggish subeditors

• UK petrol prices near all-time high as fuel duty rise takes force

  1 Apr 2010: First step in introduction of phased-in 3p rise takes prices on British forecourts close to all-time high

• Petrol prices hit near-record levels as fuel duty increases

  1 Apr 2010: The first of Alistair Darling's three fuel duty rises in the next 12 months applies from today, taking petrol to 118.8p a litre

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