In response to Liberal Democrat MP Bob Russell at the end of Prime Minister’s Questions today, David Cameron confirmed that the “key change” in housing benefit was “a cap of £20,000”, a measure which, according to the June budget, will save only £65 million by 2014/15 – the least effective revenue raising measure the government has announced.
A look back at the week’s news: The Chile miners rescue, the Browne Review into university funding, Ed Miliband’s first PMQs and more.
This lunchtime, Ed Miliband squared up to David Cameron – who gave Left Foot Forward a special mention – for his first PMQs since becoming Labour leader.
David Cameron delivered the first prime ministerial speech to a Conservative party conference in 14 years on Wednesday – a speech littered with errors.
A financial transaction tax, more commonly known as the ‘Robin Hood Tax’, is a key tenet to Ed Miliband’s vision – with Sarkozy & Merkel, he can realise it.
The Red Ed myth refuses to die. In spite of Mr Miliband’s direct rebuttal of it during his speech yesterday, the right-wing press are not relenting in their attempts – reported by Left Foot Forward earlier this week – to portray Labour’s new leader as the puppet of the trade unions.
David Davies today warns that David Cameron and the Conservative party that he must develop a growth strategy. It follows Ed Miliband’s call yesterday for a focus on growth.
Ed Miliband’s leadership speech was a strident attempt to detoxify the Labour brand from the widely perceived authoritarianism of the Blair–Brown years.
Reaction on the web to Ed Miliband’s speech is fairly positive with unsurprising support from tweeting delegates and approval by supporters of his brother.
In spite of sharing the same proprietor as the Sun, The Times has virtually ignored the YouGov results. They are buried at the very end of an 800 word article reporting a “leaked” Populus poll for the Conservatives which finds David is seen as the more prime-ministerial brother. And it seems that the significance of the Populus poll’s findings can be called to question.
