public spending
Education spending cuts? Telegraph figures called into doubt
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%.
Public support tax increases
A Populus poll in yesterday's Times revealed that 60% of voters favour tax increases to help close the budget deficit despite a headline declaring that, "Voters back Tories over big cuts in spending."
Tory Justice spokesman obsessed with cuts
After Andrew Lansley’s revelation that the Tories planned ten per cent cuts last month it was the turn of Shadow […]
Cameron’s quango plans unlikely to result in any cost savings
David Cameron's speech today was billed as a "bonfire of the quangos." But Cameron's poor examples of which quangos would be reformed and the list of new quangos that he hopes to create suggest that little cost savings will result from the plans.