While the Labour leadership election is likely to remain too close to call definitively until the day of the result, there is good evidence that the party will be able to unite around the winner.
Iain Duncan Smith has told a group of MPs that he “simply doesn’t recognise” the £4 billion figure that George Osborne claims will be cut from the welfare budget. The latest remarks will heighten tensions between two of David Cameron’stest
Scottish Labour have dubbed a “disgrace” education secretary Michael Russell’s announcement on class sizes for primary school children in year one.
There are warning signs in today’s unemployment stats that the recovery was fragile even before the coalition’s enthusiasm for cuts started choking confidence.
David Miliband’s team have hit back at comments by Mili-E on the Today programme. His team claim that they are “also increasingly confident” of victory.
The RSA has today published new research which shows that examining people’s connections provides a powerful way to understand, plan for and, foster the kind of communities that residents want to live in.
The prime minister today insisted the Government was uncompromising in its position on cracking down on human trafficking.
The financial sector breathed a sigh of relief this week as the Basel Committee’s recommendations for new rules on banking regulations were announced; stock markets around the world rallied. Rules on the amount of capital banks must hold to cover risk – and the extent to which reserves must be liquid – are less stringent than expected.
90 per cent of the public think that “it was important for the Government to invest in UK universities”. 4-in-5 believe that investment should rise or stay the same.
This week the Government are holding a drinks party to congratulate themselves on the new European Union directive on illegal timber. The directive is five years late. It is toothless and it fails to achieve the objective of putting an end to this trade that costs developing countries up to $15 billion each year.
