Given the fiscal situation, the coalition is right to look for savings from this billion-pound drug budget – indeed many inside the Labour Government felt that, while we had been right to expand this budget a decade ago, we should have found more savings in this area ourselves during our last year.
Ed Balls has told the two Miliband brothers that they are “rerunning the debates of the past”. He also spoke about his campaign mistakes but vowed “I always fight to win”.
David Miliband, through his Movement for Change, has identified people who are passionate to change their communities and then paid to train them in community organising.
Nick Clegg weighed in to the debate on the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report into the Budget this afternoon, taking to the airwaves to criticise the report for being “by definition partial” – yet in April, in the final TV leaders’ debate, he cited the IFS for their praising of his party’s general election manifesto.
The Conservative right is becoming increasingly exercised about what they are calling the “landmine” of the government’s equality legislation.
Millions of people around the world are suffering the effects of extreme weather events – matching up to predictions long made by climate scientists of more frequent and more intense weather events due to global warming.
Andrew Mitchell invited Left Foot Forward for a conversation about his approach to international development. He dismissed the perception created by a DfID leak as “total bollocks”
On the Today programme this morning, Treasury minister Mark Hoban failed to answer Justin Webb’s question about the fairness of the Budget six times.
The bottom half of the income distribution will be hit more than the top half by the Coalition’s June Budget, new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has revealed.
Another day, another outraged Daily Mail ‘benefit scroungers’ story – one which, once again, is sensationalist, tells only half the story and features the obligatory quote from Tory work and pensions minister “Calamity” Chris Grayling.
