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Why has Boris stopped talking about social cleansing?
The Mayor of London famously stood up to the government in October 2010, warning of “Kosovo-style ethnic cleansing” and promising that this would never happen on his watch. So why has he suddenly gone silent on the issue?
The chancellor’s plan has failed and we are all paying the price
Within just three months the OBR’s forecast for growth in 2013 has been halved. The economy now looks set to be smaller at the time of the next election than it was when the crash hit in 2008 and our recovery remains the slowest in over a century. When the government took office they thought this year would see the economy expand by 2.9 per cent – their own forecasts now show we won’t reach that rate of growth by 2017. The economic case for a new approach has never been stronger.
Poorest families lose the Budget 2013 childcare war
The Budget announced measures to help parents pay for childcare. But those in most need miss out on the biggest chunk of the support, argues Helen Barnard.
Childcare tax breaks benefit the wealthy more than those on low incomes
The new childcare policy will do very little to help the millions of people who have already lost out under benefit cuts, but it will help those with joint incomes of just short of £300,000.
Trident: Where the money might better be used
It seems increasingly likely that the Labour Party plans to fight the 2015 election on a platform of retaining Britain's nuclear deterrent. Instead it ought to consider the innumerable better things the money might be spent on.
Welsh low-middle income families hit hardest by welfare reforms
The coalition's government's welfare reforms will hit low-middle income families in Wales the hardest, according to a report produced for the Welsh government.