Left Foot Forward understands that via complicated, structural measures, the government is planning on green-lighting a multi-billion pound taxpayer giveaway to the nuclear industry.
The new access agreement is a political fig leaf to cover up a government busy destroying our education system and the hopes and aspirations of students and their families.
Leading Conservative blogger Tim Montgomerie, editor of the ConservativeHome website, has lifted the lid on the disquiet among many Tory MPs at the direction of the coalition.
In the forthcoming issue of the New Statesman, senior crossbench peer and former foreign secretary Lord Owen turns on the coalition’s reforms of the health service.
Ed Miliband held out the ‘hand of friendship’ to Lib Dems “appalled” at the direction “Nick Clegg and his hench-people” had taken the party, reports Shamik Das.
Simon Hughes thinks the Lib Dems are guiding the coalition in a progressive direction. But the economic damage done to Britain’s communities – including his own – overshadow any good.
Lord Oakeshott raised the bar on bankers’ bonuses last night. He promised strong action and reiterated Nick Clegg’s words that the Lib Dems “won’t stand idly by” on bank payouts.
New analysis by Gavin Kelly shows how individual tax and benefit changes will impact a normal family. They underline the meagreness of the Lib Dem’s policy to raise the income tax threshold.
National Union of Students president Aaron Porter writes about the huge responsibility facing the govt’s new ‘Advocate for Access to Education’ Simon Hughes.
On the day the Indy’s poll of polls put the Liberal Democrats on just 11 per cent, Welsh Labour welcomed its first defection by a Lib Dem councillor since May.
