Will Straw
Will Straw founded Left Foot Forward in 2009 and was its first Editor. Follow him on Twitter.
Coalition’s flagship growth policy is “total flop”
Figures released today show that the Coalition's flagship NICs holiday policy has flopped. It has helped just 5,000 businesses rather than the 400,000 originally suggested.
Growth in 2011 set to be less than half OBR’s original prediction
This morning's growth figures show that the economy grew by just 0.2% in the Q2. Given that the economy flat-lined since September, it means growth has been anaemic for the last nine months.
Eurozone crisis not to blame for sluggish growth
Ministers are trying to claim that the eurozone is to blame for fragile growth. But it is falling consumption and poor investment that is the problem.
And now a Catholic leader attacks coalition’s welfare cuts
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, has slammed the coalition's £18 billion welfare cuts.
Osborne lets public bank bonuses rip, despite right’s obsession with public sector pay
If the right were really worried about inflating public sector pay, they may want to start with the bonuses of the public sector banks
Telegraph turns on Cameron over “transparency” of Brooks relationship
Criticism of Cameron's relationship with News Int has moved to the Telegraph. This follows BBC reports that Tory MPs were "starting to talk about David Cameron's future".