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Budget 2012: Can Ed and Ed restore Labour’s credibility?
For Labour, today, budget day, marks a challenge – namely to speed up the journey towards regaining credibility on the economy, writes Ed Jacobs.
Pound for Pound, you’re better off with Ken
Left Foot Forward unveils a video explaining how Labour Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone’s Fare Deal works, and how it can save Londoners £1,000 on average.
Cameron still doesn’t get the need for an interventionist manufacturing strategy
David Cameron and George Osborne still don’t get the need for a robust and interventionist manufacturing strategy, writes Unite’s Tony Burke.
Umunna’s arguments expose the ideological divisions in the coalition
Chuka Umunna’s speech today on a ‘One Nation’ active industrial policy – in which he praised Michael Hesletine – exposes ideological divisions in the coalition.
Miliband goes on attack as fight to save the NHS stepped up
Ed Miliband will step up the war of words over the coalition’s health reforms today, warning 6,000 nursing jobs are at risk unless the health bill is defeated.
The Week Outside Westminster – UUP down, Leanne Wood up, and Miliband in Scotland
Ed Jacobs writes about the UUP in chaos, the Tories trying to pick up the pieces, Leanne Wood heading to the Plaid Cymru summit, and Ed Miliband in Scotland.
Miliband: British Investment Bank could provide government banking for entrepreneurs when market fails
The more interesting section of Ed Miliband’s speech at the Thomson Reuters building is on potential reforms to the banking sector.
Transparency, accountability, responsibility: Miliband’s “one nation banking” principles
Ed Miliband will lay out his plans for a new era of responsibility at the top and outline his vision of “one nation banking” in a speech to Reuters today.
GP in Cameron’s constituency: “Nobody supports the NHS changes”
A doctor in David Cameron’s Witney constituency has said “things are going to fail, hospitals will close” as a result of the health and social care bill.