Cameron is playing on the myth all housing benefit goes to the unemployed
In a move heralded as ‘the end of compassionate Conservatism’, David Cameron will today announce drastic cuts to housing benefits.
Katie Stanton
Katie is an intern at Left Foot Forward.
Miliband shouldn’t repeat the myth about immigrants’ impacts on wages
Ed Miliband shouldn’t let unsupported myths about immigration cloud his thinking on the issue.
Wales education minister: Gove’s way of announcing GCSE reforms was “bonkers”
Education secretary Michael Gove wants to scrap the national curriculum and bring back exam systems from the past, to the anger of the Welsh education minister.
Hungry pupils? Well, the government did scrap plans for 500,000 free school meals
Today’s shocking stats from the Guardian are bad news for the government, who scrapped plans for free school meals for 500,000 children.
The coalition MPs in the public sector regional pay danger zone
A number of MPs will be at risk of alienating their constituents working in the public sector unless they speak out against regional pay.
First he upset the bakers, now bird watchers are calling Osborne “a bloody idiot”
Vice president of the RSPB claims George Osborne is “potentially quite dangerous”.
R.I.P Rodney King: “Can we all get along?”
Rodney King, 1965-2012, wanted to be remembered for the short speech he made, appealing for an end to the LA race riots of the early 1990s.
Global recovery has stalled and confidence in policy makers is waning
As the decisive elections in Greece conclude and the G20 summit in Los Cabos begins, world leaders must refocus their attention on the ailing economy.
Dan “I don’t meet lobbyists” Hannan has questions to answer
Despite Tory MEP Dan Hannan’s claims that he is lobbyist-free, it turns out that by the Conservatives’ own definition, he has met lobbyists.
Fickle King could have approved a similar “textbook” stimulus package in 2007
Sir Mervyn King heralded the chancellor’s £140 billion stimulus plan but rejected a similar plan when Labour were in power in 2007.