Poll: Majority of voters want an early election and don’t blame Labour for financial crisis
A majority of voters want an early election and don’t blame Labour for the UK financial crisis – blaming the banking sector more, a new poll today reveals.
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Osborne in 2009: We must “sit up and listen”; 2012: ‘plays down threat’ to AAA rating
In 2009, George Osborne said we need to “sit up and listen” to the threat to the UK’s AAA rating; today, he has tried to ‘play down the threat’ to our rating.
Watch: Balls mocks Osborne’s u-turning, on fuel duty, flood defences, regional pay…
Ed Balls poked fun at George Osborne’s many, many u-turns in his autumn statement response today.
Leveson: Salmond’s meddling in BSkyB bid and readiness to assist News Corp “striking”
Alex Salmond’s closeness to Rupert Murdoch, and the lengths to which he would be prepared to go to help him, has been blown open by the Leveson Report.
Cameron’s PMQs Work Programme claims don’t add up
Ed Miliband reiterated his claim the Work Programme had a success rate of just 2% at Prime Minsiter’s Questions today – a figure dismissed by David Cameron.
Watch: “At each other like rats in a sack” – Miliband’s PMQs attack on Cameron’s Cabinet
Watch today’s PMQs: Ed Miliband and David Cameron clashed over the Work Programme, jobs and the economy at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
“Grossly distorting the facts” – Salmond, Trump and yet more misleading statements
Alex Salmond has come under fresh criticism for his handling of the arrest of ‘Trump golf course’ film maker Anthony Baxter, having made some untrue statements.
Comment: The “Establishment” can never be reformed if politics remains at the centre of it
Matt Pitt looks at the tight-knit nature of “The Establishment” and argues for the separation of it from politics.
Respect implicated in aggressive and slanderous Rotherham campaign leaflet
In the Rotherham by-election, the Respect Party and Yvonne Ridley have been implicated in a campaign leaflet that accuses Labour of racism.
Coulson and Brooks face more charges
David Cameron’s close allies Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks faced fresh criminal charges today, in connection with payments to police and public officials.