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Abolition of Saving Gateway will hit poorest families the hardest
Combined with other measures in the budget which are likely to disproportionately affect the poor, the abolition of the Saving Gateway is further indication that this Budget is not as progressive as the government claims.
Ed Miliband defends role of state & attacks Coalition for “deriding” it
Labour leadership challenger Ed Miliband called for a "different model going forward" and a rebalancing in the relationship between the state and the market today, criticising the Coalition Government's cuts agenda and their constant "diminishing, deriding and doing down" of the state.
A Thatcherite horror sequel
When George Osborne delivers his first Budget on Tuesday, the re-run will be of the Thatcherism of the early 1980s. And, with much bigger cuts to public spending and no North Sea oil bonanza, it will be much worse.
Worrying signs of a Lib Dem cave-in on capital gains tax
Dropping progressive manifesto commitments just because they happen to offend the right wing of the Conservative party are becoming a depressingly regular feature of the new administration.
Tory right turn on Huhne over energy policy
The economic Lib Dems are seemingly finding common ground with Tory ideology, but the sticking point was and is always going to be the other side of the Lib Dem fence where Mr Huhne and the like reside.
Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward
This week saw more evidence of just how savage the Coalition's cuts would be, while for Labour, the final five who made the leadership shortlist were unveiled.