Ed Miliband is preparing for an online ‘Climate Question Time‘ ahead of the UN summit in Copenhagen next week. The call takes place at 10am tomorrow morning and is being organised by the online advocacy group, 38 degrees. It istest
Today’s Daily Mail scare story exposes a new EU Tory split with Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve outflanking Daniel Hannan as a eurosceptic.
Scores of public sector fat cats received inflation-busting pay increases, according to data prepared by the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
Some bankers could receive bonuses worth £15 million with hundreds at RBS set to gain. Go Fourth has relaunched its ‘Give Up the Bonus’ campaign.
To receive this politics summary in your inbox every morning by 9am, sign up here. The FT reports that Alistair Darling will next week set out a pre-Budget report that will increase taxes on the wealthy and funnel scarce resourcestest
Left Foot Forward revealed that there was a £350m blackhole in the Conservative’s tax credit plan. Couples earning £16,000 would lose out to bring in the £400m
One of Obama’s biggest networks of supporters have come out against the new Afghanistan strategy. More than half MoveOn.org’s members oppose the surge.
The papers mark a particularly political PMQs which the Independent described as “one of Gordon Brown’s most effective performances”. The Times reveal that “Although [Alastair] Campbell did not take part in yesterday morning’s preparations at No 10 for Question Time,test
William Hague said last week that the climate change policies of his EU allies posed “no problem”. New developments suggest that only half of them support him.
At PMQs today, Gordon Brown answered a question about G20 countries and the recession by saying: “Spain is in the G20 now and is in recession.” Quick as a flash Tory Bear posted an article demanding an apology from Browntest
