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Reshuffle: Housing: Shapps’s legacy, and the challenges facing Prisk
Kevin Gulliver looks at Grant Shapps’s legacy as housing minister and the challenges facing his successor Mark Prisk.
While the government are blaming everybody but themselves, Londoners are suffering
Londoners are suffering as the government blames everybody else for their economic mess, writes Labour’s City Hall Planning spokesperson Nicky Gavron.
Salmond shuffle paves the way for referendum campaign
Ed Jacobs reports on Alex Salmond’s reshuffling of the Scottish government.
Have we passed the high watermark of state support for children?
Donald Hirsch, director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), writes about the CPAG/JRF report, “The Cost of a Child in the 21st Century”.
Risk of 23-year slump as Cameron now forecast to borrow double what Brown was
David Cameron and George Osborne are set to borrow double the figure Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were projected to.
As MSPs return from summer break, Salmond warned it’s all about the economy
As MSPs returned from their summer break, first minister Alex Salmond used the first day of the new political season in Scotland to outline a list of 14 bills.
Miliband and Cameron clash on the economy in first post-recess, post-reshuffle PMQs
Watch Ed Miliband and David Cameron clash on the economy at PMQs, 5th September 2012.
Reshuffle: Transport and communities: Where next for the ‘greenest government ever’?
Richard Hebditch of the Campaign for Better Transport reflects on the reshuffle changes at the departments for communities and transport.
Reshuffle: Wales and Northern Ireland: Reaction to David Jones and Theresa Villiers
Welsh secretary David Jones and Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers settled into their new cabinet seats today, advice aplenty ringing in their ears.
Reshuffle: DFID: Mitchell’s record, and the challenges facing Greening
As Justine Greening is announced as the new international development secretary, it’s worth pausing to reflect on the record of her predecessor Andrew Mitchell.