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Balls: £6bn extra should be invested to build 100,000 more affordable homes
Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls will call for an additional £6 billion to be invested to build 100,000 more affordable homes, arguing that the government should use half of the £12bn windfall to the public finances in recent months to fund the rapid expansion in house building.
Surprise, elation and disappointment at Cruddas’s endorsement of DM
So, the Labour Party’s most popular politician, a man respected for his honesty and outspokenness, Jon Cruddas, is backing David Miliband for the leadership. Many are surprised; some are elated – citing it as proof of the that David represents a ‘board church’; some disappointed.
Cameron: More Heath than Thatcher?
Of course such a proposition is tantamount to someone questioning your parentage in modern Conservative circles. What is often overlooked, […]
New statistics highlight challenges for Government’s migration target
New statistics show that net immigration to the UK (the surplus of people immigrating over people emigrating) in the year to December 2009 was 196,000. This compares with 163,000 in the year to December 2008, an increase of around 20 per cent (but is significantly lower than the peaks of around 220,000 seen in 2005 and 2007).
Exclusive: Ed Miliband: My vision for Labour
Ed Miliband writes to tell Left Foot Forward readers about the speech I made earlier today to an audience of Labour activists that sets out the choice that the party faces about the changes that we need to make.
So, who might persuade you how to cast your vote?
While the leadership campaign has not been covered in great detail in the media, several newspapers are likely to offer a verdict on the campaign as the voting papers go out. Here are a few to watch.