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Home Office research highlights difficulty of Government’s immigration target
Damian Green is to give his first speech as immigration minister later today, in which he will claim that the number of foreign students entering the UK is ‘unsustainable’, drawing on new Home Office research. The same research has also suggested that it will be very difficult for the Government to meet its target of reducing net immigration to under 100,000 a year.
Senior Tory councillor defects to Labour over Gove’s school cuts
The deputy leader of the Conservative group on Sandwell council has defected to Labour in protest at Michael Gove's slashing of the Building Schools for the Future programme in her borough.
Coalition cuts endanger the poorest children on UK roads
Recent announcements of the coalition government’s cuts are to dramatically worsen the plight of Britain’s poorest and most underprivileged children, new research reveals.
The “equality landmine” that the Coalition is supposed to back
The Conservative right is becoming increasingly exercised about what they are calling the “landmine” of the government’s equality legislation.
IFS: Osborne’s Budget is “clearly regressive”
The bottom half of the income distribution will be hit more than the top half by the Coalition's June Budget, new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has revealed.
More woe for Clegg as Ed Miliband slams Coalition’s 100-day record
Twitter sentiment for Nick Clegg is down sharply - while David Cameron’s rating has risen slightly, in another stark illustration of the unpopularity of the ‘sell out’ deputy prime minister in the three months since the general election.