David Cameron is today meeting Polish presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Downing Street. Kaczynski, along with many of Cameron’s far-Right European allies – described as “nutters, anti-Semites and homophobes” by Nick Clegg – has long been accused of extremism.
A look back at the week’s news, including the outcome of the Saville Inquiry, the £2bn Lib-Con spending cuts and Rupert Murdoch’s move for total control of BSkyB.
Nick Clegg was today set to launch the Coalition Government’s new ‘Childhood and Families Task Force’, which will give grandparents legal rights to see children when couples split.
BP is to pay out $20 billion (£13.5bn) in compensation following talks with President Obama; they have also agreed not to pay a dividend this year.
All five of Labour’s leadership candidates have expressed their complete support for a living wage.
The record number of new MPs are finding it difficult to adjust to their roles in the ‘new politcs’ and the traditions and processes of Parliament, three new MPs revealed today.
Thirty-eight years after 14 unarmed civilians were killed on the streets of Derry, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry will report its findings today.
Justice secretary Ken Clarke hinted at a possible Conservative u-turn on prisons policy this morning, and said fear of crime was out of kilter with the “extent” of crime.
The question of how best to build the progressive fight back was the subject of the Left Foot Forward/Labour List fringe at the Compass conference yesterday.
This week saw more evidence of just how savage the Coalition’s cuts would be, while for Labour, the final five who made the leadership shortlist were unveiled.
