Gray days for Grayling
Another day, another gaffe from everyone’s least-favourite rent-a-quote. We are amused!
Shamik Das
The two faces of the Tories on climate change
The Tories today paraded a world-leader in tackling climate change, while keeping their far-Right climate change-denying European allies firmly behind doors.
Flying to Manchester? Well that’s just criminal!
Fresh from watching his former adviser convicted of fraud yesterday, Boris Johnson faces further embarrassment with the revelation the celebrity cyclist flew to Manchester for the Tory party conference. The Mayor of London has made great play of his greentest
Would Dannatt work for a Tory Government? “Theoretically, yes”
General Sir Richard Dannatt, former head of the armed forces, refuses to rule out working for a future Conservative government.
Former Boris aide guilty of fraud
Former Boris Johnson aide Ian Clement was handed a 12-week suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 100 hours community service today after pleading guilty to fraudulently claiming for meals with his mistress. He admitted three unauthorised expense claims totallingtest
Osborne fails to detail spending plans
George Osborne failed to outline how he would pay for the £13 billion of Tory policy proposals already promised this week during his speech to conference today.
Politics Summary: Tuesday, October 6th
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. Tory plans to increase the retirement age to 66 from 2016 to save £13 billion is the lead story in today’s Guardian, Independent. The raising of the retirement agetest
Workers’ rights imperiled by Cameron’s Euro-phobia
Tory Euro-scepticism puts hard-earned workers’ rights at risks.
Irish ayes smile on Europe as Farage cries “fix”
Nigel Farage has described the Irish referendum result – in which twice as many people voted ‘yes’ to the Lisbon Treaty as ‘no’ – as a “fix”
Economic crisis: Saving banks or saving lives?
In countries where spending on healthcare is high, suicide and homicide rates are lower than societies with less well-funded services.