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Conservative leader’s speech live web chat
Join us for our live Conservative leader’s speech web chat from the Tory party conference in Birmingham as the prime minister delivers his address.
By end of 2011, there will be 4.6 unemployed people for every vacancy
The economic turmoil of the past 2 years is absent from the coalition government’s ambitious prescription to reduce unemployment, explains ippr's Tess Lamming.
Bad poll news for Labour and Tories on spending cuts
There was worrying news for both Labour and the Conservatives in the latest Sun/YouGov opinion poll this morning on public attitudes towards spending cuts.
Derry bomb: McGuinness condemns “neanderthals” in visit to Tory conf.
Martin McGuinness today condemned as "neanderthals" and "conflict junkies" the dissident Republicans responsible for last night's car bomb in Derry.
Ten policy headaches for the government on child benefit
Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, outlines ten policy headaches for David Cameron and George Osborne over the changes to Child Benefit.
Hancock breaks ranks with attack on Equality Act
Tory MP Matthew Hancock launched an attack on the Equality Act at the Conservative party conference yesterday - just days after Theresa May praised it.