Tory cuts
The Tories are on their own on police cuts
A growing number of services say they are at 'tipping point' and will not be able to deliver a professional service if cuts continue.
A “system gone crazy”: Tory cuts force London councils to send homeless to Wales
Tory cuts are forcing London local authorities into making preparations to relocate homeless families outside of the capital - as far away as Wales.
Bankers’ buddy Boris breaks promise not to slash police and fire budgets
Boris Johnson, the bankers’ best friend, is breaking his promise not to cut London’s police and fire brigade budgets, reports Shamik Das.
Cameron’s “back of a fag packet” welfare speech brings back Labour policies he’d scrapped
David Cameron’s keynote welfare speech yesterday included the re-announcement of a Labour policy which he scrapped when the Tories came into government.
There is a clash of priorities in the government’s austerity economics
What comes after austerity is the subject of a major conference being hosted by the TUC next week. But just how austere is the austerity age?
UK success on child poverty threatened by austerity programme
A UNICEF report today shows the UK was successful in protecting children from poverty at the start of the financial crisis, but has slipped back under austerity.