Sign up to receive this Political Summary every morning in your inbox by 9am. Gordon Brown told the House of Commons: “If Tony Blair comes forward as a candidate [for President of Europe] we will be very happy to supporttest
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Mark Littlewood, the newly appointed Director General of Institute of Economic Affairs, has written a blistering attack on the National Minimum Wage. In the Personal View section of the Telegraph website, Littlewood writes: “The full, and substantial, cost of Britain’stest
John Howard, former Prime Minster of Australia, today writes a detailed defence of free market capitalism for Conservative Home defending, in the process, Conservative party economic policy, executive remuneration levels, and attacking US Government policy to encourage the provision of mortgage loans. Left Foot Forward fisks the five key points in the article.
Sign up to receive this Political Summary every morning in your inbox by 9am. The Next Left blog has an exclusive that “None of the top ten Conservative bloggers believes the theory that man-made global warming is an established fact“.test
Statistics in today’s Daily Mail on immigration are deceiving and misleading. They fail to show that net migration has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years.
As Left Foot Forward revealed new allegations about the sexist and Islamophobic tendencies of the Conservative’s allies in Holland and Belgium, the Times reports that former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine thinks that Mr Cameron will have to rejoin thetest
Green groups have reacted positively to a new report by the Green Fiscal Commission amid right-wing media scare stories about the impact of the plans. The right-wing press have jumped on a single proposal in the report which would introducetest
New concerns have come to light over members of the new European Conservatives and Reformists. The Conservative party are partnering with parties that show sexist, Islamophobic, and anti-semitic tendencies.
Amid growing anger over energy prices, 51 MPs have signed a Commons motion calling for a competition inquiry into whether the “big six” energy suppliers are unfairly failing to pass on steep falls in wholesale costs. The energy companies havetest
