Nigel Farage faces second investigation over claims he broke electoral law
Anna Turley, the Labour party chair, has called on Farage to “urgently come out of hiding” and explain whether his party spent more than the £20,660 limit for campaigning.
Depoliticising the elections regulator is a no-brainer for Labour
Democracy depends not just on rules, but on confidence that those rules are enforced without fear or favour.
Keir Starmer roasts Reform UK at PMQs over Russian bribes
The Prime Minister’s comments caused much laughter across the Commons, with Farage and his deputy Richard Tice looking annoyed.
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Video: Big six energy company paid no corporation tax in three years to 2011
Energy company RWE npower did not pay a single penny of corporation tax in three years despite making profits of £766 million.
The weakness of the wider economy is catching up with the labour market
Whilst important not to read too much into one set of figures, it may now be the case that the weakness of the wider economy is catching up with the labour market.
Given some of the other rogues that got one, we should have given Thatcher a state funeral
Considering so many divisive and controversial figures have in the past received a state funeral, why deny Margaret Thatcher one?
Unemployment up 70,000 to 2.56 million
Unemployment rose by 70,000 between December 2012 and February 2013 to 2.56 million, and the unemployment rate has risen to 7.9%, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
The fan takeover of Portsmouth FC should be welcomed by supporters of all clubs
The implicit assumption that the first thing that the owners of any club should be doing is going all out for a return to the top – much less the owners of a Club upon whom was visited more tragedy than most clubs would suffer in a lifetime, let alone a few years – is misguided at best. That way lies madness.
Thatcherism and Ukip are the perfect match
Writing in The Times yesterday (£), Nigel Farage claimed that if Margaret Thatcher was still leader of the Conservative Party there would be no need for Ukip. More specifically he said: “Had she still been in power in 1992, there would have been a referendum on [the Maastricht] treaty, and the need for UKIP would probably never have arisen.”
IMF calls on Osborne to ease up on austerity
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut the UK’s growth forecast more than any other major economy and called for the government to spend more to stimulate growth.
Rebel Tory MEPs decisive in failure of vote to reform EU Emission Trading Scheme
A European Parliament vote on the future of the beleaguered Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), with implications for international climate change policy, failed to deliver a vital reform today when a majority of Conservative MEPs voted against the government.
Tory MEPs scupper plan to cut emissions
Tory MEPs have rejected a proposed reform to the European emissions trading scheme that would have cut the huge surplus of allowances currently being traded.
Just how many families are there where three generations have ‘never worked’?
In seeking to justify the government’s reforms to the benefits system, Iain Duncan Smith has previously claimed that there exists a situation in Britain where “three generations of the same family have [often] never worked”. However all the the evidence shows what an insignificant problem “three generations of out-of-work families” are in the grand scheme of things.