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The government would be foolish to keep ignoring teaching assistants
Market obsessives and state haters have led the backlash against teaching assistants.
Event: Jonathan Portes versus David Goodhart: Have liberals got it wrong on immigration?
The event will be the first Left Foot Forward’s ‘Versus’ event – a series of head-to-head debates on contemporary issues in British politics.
Tories pledge to end free prescriptions in Scotland
The Scottish Conservatives has called for free prescriptions to be abolished in order to finance an extra 1,000 new nurses and midwives north of the border.
Budget 2014: If Osborne doesn’t invest in the regions, others won’t either
The gap between the coalition’s rhetoric and its record on regional growth has been dire.
The ‘new’ garden city announcement that isn’t new at all
Plans for a garden city in Kent are little more than a rehash of a 2012 idea.
Calls for the introduction of FGM in the Maldives should worry all of us
It is vitally important the UK uses its influence and clout to lead a global campaign that seeks to rid the world of FGM.
Increasing the higher rate tax threshold does not help middle-income earners
By far the biggest gainers from an increase in the 40p threshold are families in the top income decile.
Left Foot Forward writer Duncan Weldon to be new Newsnight economics correspondent
Congratulations this Friday go to the Duncan Weldon, a Left Foot Forward contributor since 2009, who is joining BBC Newsnight as their economics correspondent.
This week’s most read: Bob Crow, EU scare stories and the TTIP threat to democracy
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Ed Balls is right: the Marriage Tax Allowance is perverse and unfair
Just 28 per cent of couples in a marriage or civil partnership will benefit from the policy.