The Coalition Government has been keen to express sympathy for those facing unemployment. But in contrast to these sentiments, the Government’s main labour market policy so far has been to cut support for unemployed people.
The Guardian, Financial Times and Independent devote their front pages on the “backlash” that will follow George Osborne’s first Budget tomorrow. The Guardian says “Osborne said he had designed the budget to ensure that everyone played their part in tacklingtest
What does ‘progressive’ actually mean, and by the time of the next election, how would voters be able to judge if the government had lived up to its rhetorical promise.
Addressing the Co-operative Group the former Culture Secretary deemed the Co-operative and wider ‘mutual movement’ a standard-bearer for combined social and economic progress…
The Government wants taxation to contribute just a 1/5 to deficit reduction. A range of think tanks and The Economist are advising them to focus more on taxes.
A look back at the week’s news, including the outcome of the Saville Inquiry, the £2bn Lib-Con spending cuts and Rupert Murdoch’s move for total control of BSkyB.
Before the General Election, Ipsos MORI found immigration to be the forth most important issue concerning voters. In March YouGov found Labour was perceived as the worst major party on dealing with the issue of immigration…
A round-up of the week’s political news from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
A truly progressive government would give a bigger role to increasing taxes than was suggested in either the Conservative or Liberal Democrat manifestos.
We have been warned that next week’s Emergency Budget could bring pain for years to come. Cameron’s coalition has promised that such pain is inevitable but that the medicine will be administered fairly. But there remain many questions about what such ‘fairness’ means in practice.
