Tory MPs vote to discourage work and use taxes as social engineering
With hopes to enable married couples to transfer thier personal tax allowance to the higher earner, Tories have abonded key principles for the sake of moralising
Daniel Elton
Doctors still fear coalition health reforms
It appears as if the coalition’s reformed health reforms have still not earned favour with the professionals who will actually have to deliver them.
Gove’s call for parents to act as strikebreakers savaged by Mumsnet
Readers of Mumsnet have savaged education secretary Michael Gove’s plea for parents to act as strikebreakers.
Tory defection highlights Boris’s weakness on law and order
A Conservative borough chairman has defected to Labour, citing the London Mayor’s cuts to the police and inability to stand up for the NHS as critical failures.
Osborne’s economic attacks on women reflect a wider Tory problem
The Mirror this morning recount the different ways women are under attack from the coalition’s economic policy, reports Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
Welfare-to-work companies may be better at ‘playing the game’ than providing services
Among those selected by the government to carry out its welare to work programme are Atos, G4S and Serco – all have dubious records carrying out public sector contracts.
Pro-cuts think tank Reform takes public sector sponsorship
Tory-Lib Dem council Birmingham City Council is sponsoring Reform’s upcoming conference “Localism and the Public Services Revolution”, at the cost of £7,500.
Health reform backers’ agenda: Cut the front line, introduce upfront payments
The real agenda of the backers of Andrew Lansley’s ill thought out health reforms is to cut the front line and introduce upfront payments, writes Daniel Elton.
Cameron, Clarke, Dorries, Willetts… The Tories keep screwing up on gender equality
Why is it that Conservatives have such a problem with gender equality and women’s issues? The last two months alone have featured a litany of misteps by Tories.
Clarke’s problem is not that he’s tough or soft – it’s that he’s a cutter
Rehabilitation costs money. A ‘prison works’ strategy costs money – as Clarke says it costs more to send a convict to jail than a schoolboy to Eton. The problem with Clarke is not that he’s soft or tough – its that he’s a cutter.