Copenhagen deal vital to domestic support on climate change
An exclusive poll outlines that a Copenhagen deal is critical to winning public support for domestic green taxes. Support increases if a deal is reached.
Will Straw
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Why Cameron’s stockbroking heritage explains his love for Lawson
David Cameron this week outlined his admiration for Nigel Lawson’s period in the Treasury. This is consistent with his stockbroking heritage.
Rupert Read’s Guardian letter
Left Foot Forward’s Rupert Read has a letter in today’s Guardian. Rupert suggests that “Copenhagen cannot end the climate crisis … A pretence of effective action is worse than no action at all.” We publish the letter here in full:test
Grayling’s immigration cap is “completely Stalinist”
Chris Grayling’s immigration cap policy was criticised last night at an ippr event. Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne described it as “completely Stalinist.”
Politics Summary: Thursday, December 10th
The papers are fairly damning of Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report, which Left Foot Forward gave a 6.6/10 rating against our five red lines. The FT claims the “route to austerity still shrouded in fog” and says the theme was “dissatisfactiontest
Assessing the pre-Budget report
Assessed against Left Foot Forward’s 5 red lines for a progressive pre-Budget report, Alistair Darling gets 66%. 45% said it was a “good” on a live poll.
Live coverage – PBR 2009
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Politics Summary: Wednesday, October 9th
The FT outlines that the Chancellor will today levy a one-off tax on the bonus pools used by banks for staff compensation. Its purpose is to warn banks to “think twice before they pay what the government deems to betest
Top earners pay more, and so they should
Tim Montgomerie quotes Allister Heath in City AM: “The top 10 per cent of earners are already set to pay 53.6 per cent of income tax in 2008-09; the top five per cent will pay 43 per cent and thetest
NATO: “We won’t bugger off”
Left Foot Forward took part yesterday in NATO’s first bloggers’ briefing. Spokesman James Appathurai: “We won’t bugger off. We’ll transition to a support role”