Leaks coming from inside former BP boss, Lord Browne’s review of higher education funding today suggest that will stay true to his big business background and suggest the Government raises the cap on tuition fees to £7,000 and subject universities and students to the perils of a market.
Ken Livingstone, London’s last mayor, exclusively told Left Foot Forward: “Millions of Londoners are experiencing chaos in getting to and from work today, yet the Mayor refuses to meet the two unions involved in this dispute, which arises in part from Boris Johnson breaking an election manifesto commitment to protect tube ticket office opening hours.”
A new poll of 265 Labour councillors for today’s Daily Politics will show David Miliband to be the favoured candidate over his brother by 57 per cent to 43 per cent, Left Foot Forward can reveal.
The Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Danny Kennedy has called for the rules by which the First Minister is chosen to be amended, in an attempt the block the prospect of either Gerry Adams or Martin McGuniess takingtest
The Andy Coulson affair appears to be opening up divisions within the Coalition, albeit ones which have so far done no more than simmer beneath the surface. Several Liberal Democrats have let their negative opinion of the Cameron’s Head of Communications spill out into the public sphere.
None of these donations are illegal, but questions will be raised over why people with such vested interests are handing over huge sums of money, and in the having seen Conservative MEPs vote against a clamp down on tax dodgers and Mr Osborne’s fight to block European regulation of hedge funds, one must ask: cui bono?
When David Cameron took the reins of government, within a week of doing so, he made a point of visiting each of the devolved governments, seeking to highlight his new mantra of respect between Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and Stormont. Little did they know; it now transpires that the respect is not, it seems, applicable to relations between Conservatives in London and Scotland.
In an address to the Fabian Society this morning, Ed Balls unveiled new research which attacks Michael Gove’s academies programme for being elitist.
Damian Green is to give his first speech as immigration minister later today, in which he will claim that the number of foreign students entering the UK is ‘unsustainable’, drawing on new Home Office research. The same research has also suggested that it will be very difficult for the Government to meet its target of reducing net immigration to under 100,000 a year.
As voting commences, Labour leadership front runners David and Ed Miliband have answered a series of policy questions for Left Foot Forward – read their answers in full here.
