Sir Alan Budd stepping down from Office for Budget Responsibility at the end of the month
Rachel Sylvester: Ministers try to find ways to raid the “ring-fenced” health budget
John Prescott emerges as Labour anti-AV figurehead
Andrew Tyrie, new chair of Treasury select committee, says Osborne risks replacing the FSA “on the hoof”
Labour has recruited 25,000 new members since the general election
Survey shows 69 applicants for each graduate job
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Kiran Stacey is an FT political correspondent, having joined the lobby in 2011. He started at the FT as a graduate trainee in 2008, working on desks including UK companies and US equity markets before taking over the FT's Energy Source blog.
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