
Public sector cuts: the view from Wales
The IFS forecast that public sector cuts are likely to be deeper than those experienced during the 1970s has triggered a strong exchange of views in Wales.

The IFS forecast that public sector cuts are likely to be deeper than those experienced during the 1970s has triggered a strong exchange of views in Wales.

The Tory manifesto says infections like MRSA now kill more than three times as many people as are killed on the roads, yet the statistics say otherwise.

The BNP is so short of support it has resorted to using candidates masquerading as regular voters to spread their bile.

New research by the IFS outlines that “income tax cuts are not well targeted to help the poorest in society”. It corroborates research last month by Left Foot Forward.

The Conservative Party seems to want to take us back to the days when only one kind of family was acceptable.

Immigration isn’t attracting the same kind of attention in this election campaign that it has in the past (or at least it wasn’t until ‘bigot-gate’…)

Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. With polling day just a week away, there’s only one story dominating the morning’s papers, the prime minister’s encounter with Mrs Duffy. The right-wing press go into overdrive, thetest

Twitter is rife with speculation over whether The Sun might have bought the rights to Gillian Duffy’s story. It would be in keeping with their recent tactics.

Britain appears to be heading for a hung parliament. David Goodhart, Jonathan Freedland, and Peter Kellner give differing perspectives in three new articles.

As immigration and the disaffection of traditional working class Labour voters is thrust back into the political agenda, LFF interviews Michael Collins.