Queens Speech
What’s to stop landlords passing the cost of immigration checks on to already squeezed tenants?
For the sake of appeasing a handful of Tory backbenchers and shoring up the UKIP vote, the government may have just heaped another burden on already hard-pressed tenants.
The government must do more to promote freedom
One rare piece of good news from the Tory-led government was Nick Clegg's decision to block the so-called 'Snoopers Charter', a draft piece of fundamentally illiberal legislation which would have allowed the security services to monitor emails, text messages and internet browsing.
Miliband: Cameron and Osborne ‘have helped bankers, millionaires and Murdoch’
Ed Miliband will today seek to portray the Tories as the party of the few, helping bankers, millionaires and Murdoch while doing nothing for everyone else.
Shunting the Queen’s Speech may save Lansely’s bill
Alex Hern details the effects that the extraordinarily late Queen’s Speech will have on legislation in the Lords.
Queen unveils new devolution measures for Scotland and Wales
Plans for more devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales were announced by the Queen today.