Look Left – The Pope, falling living standards and Miliband’s mansion tax
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Osborne under increasing pressure to move to the right
The chancellor George Osborne is coming under increasing pressure from tory back benchers and the governor of the bank of England to pursue a more right wing agenda.
Five reasons progressives should support Ed’s mansion tax
Left Foot Forward sets out five reasons progressives should support Ed Miliband’s proposed ‘mansion tax’.
Miliband backs mansion tax and 10p tax rate
Ed Miliband will try to press home the Labour party’s lead in the polls today in a speech criticising the coalition for its failed economic policies.
Earnings now at same level as 2002 for squeezed middle
Real earnings have declined since 2009 and are at the same level as 2002.
The coalition is in ‘growth denial’
The Bank of England is expected to downgrade its growth forecasts today while warning of more financial pain to come. As the graph shows, the growth trend in the UK economy has been downward since around the third quarter oftest
Poundland ‘breached forced labour laws’
Poundland has lost a case in court and has been found to have breached forced labour laws
Revealed: the pay gap at Britain’s top firms
Left Foot Forward looks at the pay gap between best paid and worst paid at some of Britain’s best known firms.
Just 1 in 100 government infrastructure projects completed
Less than one in 100 of the coalitions infrastructure projects are finished, according to figures which will be put to the government by Labour tomorrow.
Could a progressive black Cardinal signal the Vatican’s Obama moment?
Could the next Pope be a black progressive? Left Foot Forward looks at the favourites to take over from Pope Benedict XVI.