Clegg “digging himself into a hole” over university funding
Lecturers accused Nick Clegg of “spinning his way out of trouble” over university funding today, following his u-turn over tuition fees, writes Shamik Das.
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Another Lib Dem u-turn – this time they vote down votes at 16
Last night Liberal Democrat MPs voted against lowering the voting age to 16 – despite promising to give 16-year-olds the vote in their election manifesto.
Party funding reform: Why the cap may not fit
The Coalition’s programme to reform the funding of political parties highlights the complexity of the problem, writes Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg.
Health and safety laws matter – every day 60 people die due to work
Every year, some 1,500 people lose their lives in the UK through a fatal occupational injury – not to mention the 20,000-plus who die of occupational illness.
Big society gone mad?
Hidden in Mr Cameron’s appeal to mobilise people in the national interest, is a further, pernicious attack on law that in fact protects all of us.
Cutting red tape? More like axing the green economy
The Government is abolishing15 environmental bodies, blowing another hole in its claim to be ‘the greenest government ever’, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Lib Dem MP’s sudden conversion from loving RDAs to loathing them
Kevin Meagher exposes Lib Dem Gordon Birtwistle’s sudden conversion from fan of Regional Development Agencies to saying they only give “crumbs off the table”.
Treasury trying to shut down climate department and axe clean energy funds
The credibility of the coalition’s claim to be the ‘greenest government ever’ suffered a huge blow today following reports the Treasury is planning to axe DECC.
Spending Challenge – of 45,000 ideas, just 3 are taken up
Of the 45,000 proposals submitted to the government’s much hyped ‘Spending Challenge’, only three have been taken up, reports Matthew Pitt.
IDS “simply doesn’t recognise” Osborne’s welfare savings number
Iain Duncan Smith has told a group of MPs that he “simply doesn’t recognise” the £4 billion figure that George Osborne claims will be cut from the welfare budget. The latest remarks will heighten tensions between two of David Cameron’stest