Left Foot Forward last week revealed how Tory links to hedge fund managers raised potential conflicts of interest with George Osborne’s widely trailed proposals to abolish the Financial Services Authority. Evidence unearthed today by Sam Coates on freebies accepted bytest
The Daily Telegraph’s front page today announces that, “Education spending to be cut by £100m.” But a deeper look at the figures reveals that total spending by the Department for Children, Schools and Families will increase in real terms by 1.37% from 2009-10 to 2010-11. If expenditure on innovation, universities and skills is included, spending still increases by 0.68%.
A Populus poll in yesterday’s Times revealed that 60% of voters favour tax increases to help close the budget deficit despite a headline declaring that, “Voters back Tories over big cuts in spending.”
Proposals to alter maternity leave arrangements outlined at an event with Shadow Minister for Family Welfare, Maria Miller MP, could leave the average family £1,530 worse off. The Conservative think tank, Reform, published a report on Monday, Productive parents, whichtest
David Cameron’s speech today was billed as a “bonfire of the quangos.” But Cameron’s poor examples of which quangos would be reformed and the list of new quangos that he hopes to create suggest that little cost savings will result from the plans.
In yesterday’s Independent, Johann Hari uncovered a quote buried towards the end of a lengthy Times interview of David Cameron published on May 16th. The quote is worth reprinting in full: So how many properties do you own? “I owntest
