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As many as 4,500 jobs are at risk, it was revealed today.
New figures from the ONS: 2007 marked a turning point in taxpayers value for money for public services. Public sector productivity is also in taxpayers favour.
Right-wing think tanks have revealed the true Tory public services agenda with a coordinated set of policy recommendations to encourage the break up of the NHS into competing social insurers and to allow private companies to profit from state education.
George Osborne pledges a Conservative government would emulate the policies being implemented by Tory councils
David Cameron mentioned the phrase “debt crisis” eight times in his speech yesterday. On Sunday, speaking on the Andrew Marr show, George Osborne said, “the difference between Britain and countries like France and Germany is that we have an absolutely enormous budget deficit.” But research used by the Conservative Party show that Britain’s debt position is far from in crisis despite their claims.
The OECD’s annual Education at a Glance report showed encouraging signs for the British education system, though it also revealed there was still work to do.
In his keynote speech at Demos titled “Progressive reform in an age of austerity,” George Osborne refused to embrace a policy of progressive taxation or set out what a progressive foreign policy under a Conservative government would mean. Osborne claimedtest
Today’s front-page lead on the Daily Express – LABOUR’S £186BN BENEFITS MADNESS – revealed that in 2009/10 spending on benefits would amount to a quarter of all State spending. The “madness” to which the Express refers is, presumably, their belieftest
The Daily Telegraph’s front page today announces that, “Education spending to be cut by £100m.” But a deeper look at the figures reveals that total spending by the Department for Children, Schools and Families will increase in real terms by 1.37% from 2009-10 to 2010-11. If expenditure on innovation, universities and skills is included, spending still increases by 0.68%.
