Miliband takes climate message to the country
Climate change secretary Ed Miliband has put the environment back on the agenda today with by travelling across England with Franny Armstrong.
Green Politics
Cameron off camera: inheritance tax cut is “only small amount of money”
On three occasions last night, Gordon Brown asked David Cameron why he was proposing to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £2,000,000 for married couples. On camera, the Tory leader gave an evasive answer. Off camera, he is alleged totest
Lib Dem tax policy “fails the fairness test”: IFS says so too
New research by the IFS outlines that “income tax cuts are not well targeted to help the poorest in society”. It corroborates research last month by Left Foot Forward.
IoD: Tory hung parliament fears are “irresponsible”
To consistently mislead the British public on the likely economic consequences of a hung parliament, as the Tory Party continues to do, is simply unacceptable.
Tory National Insurance cut is regressive
The IFS have reported on the three parties’ tax and spend plans. They shows that the Tory’s cut to National Insurance is regressive.
Ken Clarke: Government right (and Osborne wrong) on Northern Rock
Ken Clarke contradicted George Osborne today. On BBC’s Election Debate he said that the Labour government had been right to nationalise Northern Rock.
Reflections on climate politics across the English-speaking world
Lord Giddens’s think tank, Policy Network, has just published two new papers examining changes in climate politics in the US and Australia.
Greg Clark’s carcrash TV on Tory climate scepticism
Greg Clark failed to answer questions about his party’s climate scepticism on BBC’s Election Debate from. Ed Miliband, Simon Hughes and Justin Rowlatt.
Democrat leadership throws climate progress into doubt
This weekend, the Obama administration threw American, and therefore international, climate progress into doubt when it put the climate and energy bill on ice.
Labour’s green appeal to first time voters
Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband this morning launched Labour’s ‘green manifesto’. The Climate Secretary made an appeal direct to first time voters.