Protesters in Brighton on Sunday called for the scrapping of tuition fees, an end to testing in primary schools, and nationalisation of parts of the renewable energy industry. Mark Flower, a former blade technician at Vestas on the Isle oftest
A week after Francis Maude pushed for greater transparency within the lobbying industry it emerged that the Local Government Association has hired a lobbyist and former Conservative special adviser to head up its media and campaigns team ahead of the next election.
Mark Thompson (@MarkReckons) has joined Left Foot Forward as our key contributor on drugs policy and constitutional affairs. We are very pleased to welcome Mark who recently won an award as Best New Liberal Democrat blogger for his Mark Reckonstest
The Group of 20 developed and developing nations will become the world’s top economic forum, spreading influence to emerging powers such as China and India. In the future the G20 will focus on economic issues while the G8 rich nationstest
Labour MP, Eric Joyce – who resigned earlier this month as parliamentary aide to Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth – has called for the future of Trident to be considered as part of a defence review. Writing for Compass, Joyce says:test
David Cameron and George Osborne were today rebuked by two leading economists. In an article for tomorrow’s relaunched New Statesman, David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College in the United States, and former independent member of the Bank oftest
In their article this morning “Gordon Brown follows Barack Obama’s lead with cut in Trident subs,” The Guardian referenced the exclusive YouGov poll for Left Foot Forward which we published on Monday. In doing so, The Guardian erroneously referred totest
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. The papers all report that Gordon Brown intends Britain to build only three replacement Trident nuclear submarines rather than four. The Independent reports that the five permanent members oftest
The Independent this morning promised that, “China lays down challenge to Obama on climate.” It went on: “Officials in Beijing indicated last night that Mr Hu would arrive in Manhattan this morning ready to unveil ‘important’ plans for reducing China’stest
Avaaz, the international online civic organisation, held a successful campaign event in Parliament Square yesterday with one activist telling Prime Minister Gordon Brown that she was, “deeply concerned that the [Copenhagen] negotiations are way off track.”
