Here’s what Lucy Powell really said about Labour’s ‘Edstone’
You can bet this misrepresentation will be in every newspaper tomorrow
You can bet this misrepresentation will be in every newspaper tomorrow
Ed Miliband shouldn’t let unsupported myths about immigration cloud his thinking on the issue.
Eric Pickles’ proposals to deal with ‘troubled families’ is a rehash of a New Labour policy, but served on bed of dubious spin kicking the poor and public sector workers.
Clegg praised the Labour’s Lords health team for helping to ensure the NHS bill did not lead to privatisation. They insist the service is still under threat.
Alex Hern counters Guido Fawke’s spin that stopping Hester’s bonus cost the taxpayer £320 million.
Tamasin Cave argues the American lobbying regulations should show the Tories how to do transparency, and that the watered down British version doesn’t work.
Don Flynn of the migrants’ rights network responds to Chris Grayling’s appalling dog-whistle announcement over welfare cheating migrants.
Alex Hern rebuts Grayling’s horrible misuse of statistics in the Telegraph, and asks if this represents the government’s real attitude to evidence based policy
In advance of the DWP releasing heavily-spun figures, Steve Griffiths counters claims in the press that suggest that disability welfare is often wrongly claimed.
Cameron’s speech turned out to be a trotting out of well-worn Tory tropes on spending, deregulation, family values, NHS reform, disability benefit reform and so much else. But there’s a lot of spin obscuring the truth.