Remember Cameron’s “no frontline cuts” pledge?
Dominic Browne looks at David Cameron’s poor performance in PMQ’s defending his cuts to police budgets.
Public Services
Will David Cameron make Lansley a scapegoat, and will it work?
Dominic Browne asks whether Andrew Lansley will be scapegoated by David Cameron and suggests him being left in the job might work better for the left.
Why won’t Cameron come clean on NHS cuts?
David Cameron’s PMQ’s comments on the NHS are typical of the government’s level of denial over the NHS cuts and falling standards, reports Dominic Browne.
FE students: ‘EMA axe is holding back recruitment’
Lecturers and teachers in more than two-thirds of sixth-form and further education colleges say that changes to EMA are ‘adversely affecting recruitment to the college’ – despite claims from Education minister Michael Gove, going back to at least 2008, that the scheme was a ‘flop’.
Cruddas: Big Society failing the “all in this together” test as safety nets go
Labour MP Jon Cruddas blasts the Big Society for failing the “all in this together” test while safety nets are being removed reports Daisy Blacklock.
Right-wing hate campaign clouds debate on benefits
Sue Marsh from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger, reports on a concerted effort in the right-wing press to prevent any real debate over benefits.
Unhappy Munday: “Climate getting worse daily” admits pro-Lansley GP
A pro-Lansley GP admits the climate is getting worse for his failing health bill, while the Daily Mail claim there is a “great cuts myth”, reports Dominic Browne.
Is the government really “losing sleep” over cuts in university places?
Will Straw looks at whether the government are really “losing sleep” over the cuts to university places.
Concerns grow that NHS is “slipping backwards”
A new report from respected independent think tank The King’s Fund on the state of the NHS under the Tory-led government makes grim reading.
Tuition fees policy “shambolic”, “backfiring”, “a connoisseur’s cock-up”
There has been a renewed barrage of criticism of the government’s tuition fees policy, which has been branded “a connoisseur’s cock-up”, “backfiring”, and “unfair and shambolic”.