Two polls of grassroots Conservative and Liberal Democrat members over the weekend have revealed Lib Dem dissatisfaction over VAT and corporation tax and that Chris Huhne is the least popular member of the Cabinet among Tory activists.
More than two thirds of convicted UK-based Islamist terrorists are British nationals, almost half are from London, nearly one third have attended university and a similar proportion were in full-time employment at the time of their involvement in terrorism. Furthermore,test
The leaders of the UK’s devolved administrations have written to David Cameron to express their “extreme anger” over the UK coalition’s plans to hold a referendum on changing the electoral system on the same day as next year’s elections to local councils and to the devolved bodies.
Labour may have temporarily lost legislative power in Westminster, but Labour MEPs still have that power and used it to great effect last week, securing strict limits on upfront cash bonuses to ensure that bonuses are linked to long-term success rather than mere risk-taking.
A detailed audit of last month’s Budget has shown that women will shoulder nearly three-quarters of the burden of cuts and tax increases.
Mobile devices and the political system have had a surprisingly long history, from waist-band mounted pagers being an essential accessory of MPs during the Blair years to mobile phone voting being trialled successfully in Sheffield in 2002 for local elections.
The G8 and G20 summits may have seemed a damp squib, but the final communiqué, always drafted so that everybody can go away saying that they’ve won, only masks the fundamentally different approaches to economic policy by the US and by European countries.
Diane Abbott is the second leadership candidate to respond to our questions crowd-sourced with Left Foot Forward readers after David Miliband spoke to us last week. Responding via email, the only woman in the race announced her support for “Yes”test
The referendum on the alternative vote will be announced next week and held next May, a story the BBC has been leading on today and last night – and a story broken by Left Foot Forward yesterday evening.
Ed Balls hit out at the Coalition Government for “the most unfair and regressive Budget in a generation” today, calling it “reckless and unfair”.
