City minister Mark Hoban has urged the banking sector to demonstrate the “pay restraint” being demanded of workers in the public and private sector and is considering a permanent tax on the pay and profits of banks.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published an article today showing that it won’t be easy for the Coalition Government to meet the Conservatives’ pre-election pledge to “increase the proportion of tax revenue accounted for by environmental taxes”.
Lord Mandelson reveals the inside story of the post-election negotiations with the Liberal Democrats today, writing that Nick Clegg demanded Gordon Brown’s resignation as the price of a Lib-Lab deal – and that Danny Alexander sought a change to the voting system without the need for a referendum.
Remembering the July 7th terror attacks, the latest Coalition cuts, Michael Gove’s week from hell and more.
Doctors will be given sole responsibility for overseeing front-line care to patients – with health authorities and primary care trusts being scrapped.
Additional research by Maria Arbiter of the Fabian Society The Liberal Democrats will be the party most affected by the cut in the number of seats announced by Nick Clegg on Monday, research undertaken by Left Foot Forward reveals. In histest
Andy Burnham has accused supporters of a rival camp in the Labour leadership contest of conducting “malicious briefings”.
The permanent secretary at the depertment for education has backed up Ed Balls’s claims that all capital funding announcements when he was schools secretary.
Two polls of grassroots Conservative and Liberal Democrat members over the weekend have revealed Lib Dem dissatisfaction over VAT and corporation tax and that Chris Huhne is the least popular member of the Cabinet among Tory activists.
A detailed audit of last month’s Budget has shown that women will shoulder nearly three-quarters of the burden of cuts and tax increases.
