The papers are anticipating an “optimistic” speech from David Cameron following the “austerity” message from George Osborne. There are few details but the Telegraph believe it will be about confronting Britain’s “culture of irresponsibility” while everyone suggests he will mimictest
Right-wing think tanks have revealed the true Tory public services agenda with a coordinated set of policy recommendations to encourage the break up of the NHS into competing social insurers and to allow private companies to profit from state education.
Charles Tannock MEP sought to defend his party’s record on gay rights last night but his own history of opposing equalities legislation has come under scrutiny.
All the papers focus on George Osborne’s big speech where he set out a one-year pay freeze for public sector workers earning over £18,000; deferral of the state pension by a year; withdrawal of the family element of child taxtest
Two senior Green MEPs have spoken out against David Cameron’s decision to move Conservative MEPs from the European People’s Party grouping to the new European Conservative and Reformists, criticising his decision to join forces with people who “deny that theretest
Male life expectancy at birth in UK cities ranges from 70.8 years in Glasgow City to 83.7 years in Kensington and Chelsea. The results show that Conservative plans to raise the pensionable age to 66 from 2016 will have atest
At a fringe event last night, Chris Grayling sort to clarify his remarks comparing Britain to The Wire. Answering a question from Left Foot Forward at a fringe event organised by the Centre for Social Justice, Grayling said: “The pointtest
Ruth Lea and Lord Trimble talk to Left Foot Forward about David Cameron’s plans to withdraw from the socail chapter.
Oliver Letwin this afternoon announced radical new plans to retrofit the entire British housing stock. But the proposals, which appeared to preempt a speech by Greg Clark tomorrow, provoked questions over the cost and feasibility of the proposals.
Following the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty, and imminent ratifications by Poland and the Czech Republic, the Conservative party are on a “collision course” with their Eurosceptic right with Boris Johnson arguing that the British “deserve a say” ontest
