David Miliband, writing in tomorrow’s New Statesman, will say that the “failure” of Tony Blair to take account of people’s struggles with the impacts of globalisation on their communities led to voters “turning their backs” on the Labour Party.
Ken Clarke’s announcement on prison policy is welcome news for those of us who campaign for penal reform.
Labour leadership candidate David Miliband set out his vision of a “genuinely comprehensive education” at a school in Bristol today, speaking of his “brazenly aspirational” goal of inspiring a love of learning in children.
Business investment is stagnating. Coalition policies look set to exacerbate the problem and will do little to help the economy meet OBR’s ambitious estimates.
In his Budget statement last week, George Osborne set an ambitious goal for October’s comprehensive spending review, namely an average 25 per cent reduction in spending across all Whitehall departments; in light of such stretching targets, are the arts being lined up as an easy hit?
Combined with other measures in the budget which are likely to disproportionately affect the poor, the abolition of the Saving Gateway is further indication that this Budget is not as progressive as the government claims.
A private Treasury assesment of the impact of the Government’s spending cuts has revealed that last week’s Budget will result in the loss of up to 1.3 million jobs over the next five years.
A long, ignominious line of home office ministers have opted for a quiet life and done ACPO’s bidding. But for today at least, Ms May deserves two cheers for not being one of them. Her challenge, however, as always in government, is to turn rhetoric into action.
Labour leadership challenger Ed Miliband called for a “different model going forward” and a rebalancing in the relationship between the state and the market today, criticising the Coalition Government’s cuts agenda and their constant “diminishing, deriding and doing down” of the state.
Iain Duncan Smith has called for social tenants to be more prepared to move to find work where none exists where they live. However, nowhere has concern over the plan provoked such negative reaction to the Government’s position than across Scotland and Wales.
