The National Union of Students has been reassured by Ministers that sale of the student loans book will not impact student paying back their loans. But conservative think tanks, such as Reform, have been urging politicians to consider saving £1.2 billion by introducing market rates for student loans while the Confederation of British Industry have suggested that, in addition, grants should be cut.
Cllr Rupert Read (@RupertRead) has joined Left Foot Forward as a new writer on environmental and social policy. We are very pleased to welcome Rupert who is one of 20 Green Party Councillors in Norwich. Rupert is also a Reader in Philosophytest
The first report of the Committee on Climate Change, chaired by Lord Turner, is covered in all the papers. The FT says, “liberalisation of the UK’s energy market should be reversed, with ministers taking more control of decisions such astest
Godfrey Bloom MEP (UKIP, Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire) today defended the use of the term “Paki” and called on those offended by the term to “lighten up.”
David Cameron spoke yesterday ‘marginal deduction rates,’ the amount given back to the state in lost benefits, lost tax credits, and paid taxes as a worker earns an extra pound. But this is not a new problem and the Labour government has more than halved the number of people facing these high marginal rates.
Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. A spokesman for the Norwegian Nobel Committee said: “The Nobel Peace Prize of 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperationtest
Reaction to David Cameron’s speech dominates the papers. Both Jonathan Freedland and Steve Richards ask the same question: How? “How exactly does a shrunken state create “a country where the poorest children go to the best schools”? Martin Kettle seestest
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Please find below passages from David Cameron’s speech and our commentary. We will be updating this throughout the afternoon so please check back later. “There will have to be cutbacks in public spending” But what about tax rises? The publictest
In his speech to Conservative party conference, William Hague said: “When it comes to dealing with Iran over nuclear policy, Russia over energy security, or the Balkans to prevent new conflict or disorder, we need Europe to use its collectivetest
