The Conservative party yesterday announced a series of measures aimed at increasing employment. They included a new work-pairing scheme, announced by Lord Freud – the Tory’s frontbench welfare spokesman, to match 100,000 teenagers with sole traders and provide them withtest
Oliver Letwin this afternoon announced radical new plans to retrofit the entire British housing stock. But the proposals, which appeared to preempt a speech by Greg Clark tomorrow, provoked questions over the cost and feasibility of the proposals.
Detailed look at Mr Cameron’s “Get Britain Working” plans, which include proposals to get people off Incapacity Benefit and on to Jobseeker’s Allowance.
The chief executive of E.ON UK, Paul Golby, has told Reuters news agency that he does not believe any new nuclear station will come online before 2020 saying, “It’s clearly not possible to accelerate the build time.”
Left Foot Forward is in Madrid today for the Global Progress conference, organised by the Center for American Progress and Ideas Foundation. Kicking off the day, Jen Palmieri – a former deputy press secretary to President Bill Clinton and Seniortest
Last week Left Foot Forward showed how UK business investment was in a state of collapse. The US is suffering the same problem and Nobel prize winner Professor Paul Krugman has written about the necessary policy response on his ‘Consciencetest
Alistair Darling MP has launched a stinging attack on the Conservative Party using his conference speech to outline the different policy choices made by the Conservative party. Darling said: “Had we made different choices – Tory choices – the UKtest
David Cameron and George Osborne argue that the national debt is the biggest threat to Britain’s prosperity. By focusing on government spending they are ignoring the implications of the fall in investment. The ONS reported today that: “Business investment fortest
David Cameron and George Osborne were today rebuked by two leading economists. In an article for tomorrow’s relaunched New Statesman, David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College in the United States, and former independent member of the Bank oftest
Yesterday’s announcement from the International Air Transport Association sees more vapour trail and mirrors being employed by the airline industry in an attempt to persuade the world that they care about climate change and want to cut emissions. This new approach will not mean substantial or real cuts in emissions.
