Labour peer to head Osborne commission
A new body to plan infrastructure projects and chaired by the former Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis is to be unveiled by the chancellor. ......
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn urges Tory conference protesters to avoid 'personal attacks'
Jeremy Corbyn has urged activists protesting at the Conservative Party conference to refrain from "personal attacks". The Labour leader will head to Manchester, where the Tories are gathering, to take...
View ArticleTax credit cuts 'may leave millions of working families significantly worse off'
Two in five working families with children could lose £3,000 a year under cuts to tax credits, the Government has been warned. Research by Unison found that 2.7 million low to middle income working...
View ArticleLabour's mixed messages on austerity risk falling into Osborne's trap
Most economists support Labour opposition to the ‘economically illiterate’ fiscal charter. John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn should frame a clear alternative to austerity, as promised, not backtrack...
View ArticleLabour win marginal ward on Tory-controlled Cherwell District Council
Jeremy Corbyn has been given a boost in his bid to prove his ability to win over Tory voters after Labour won a council seat off the Conservatives in a by-election. It was the first victory at the...
View ArticleHe’s beginning to enjoy it… see the glint in Jeremy Corbyn’s eye
One of the picture postcards from Labour’s interesting time by the seaside was when Jeremy Corbyn sat in the leader’s seat on the platform taking holiday snaps of his close friend John McDonnell as the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron: 'No doubt' that Britain gains from being in EU
Prime minister speaks of wider benefits of EU membership but says he will not rule anything out about negotiating a new deal...
View ArticleTributes paid after death of former UK chancellor Denis Healey
Tributes have been paid to long-serving British Labour Party MP and former chancellor Denis Healey, who died on Saturday aged 98, with political foes and allies describing him as a “giant” of...
View ArticleTributes paid after death of former British chancellor Denis Healey
Tributes have been paid to long-serving British Labour Party MP and former chancellor Denis Healey, who died on Saturday aged 98, with political foes and allies describing him as a “giant” of...
View ArticleDavid Cameron rejects growing Tory demands to limit the impact of harsh cuts...
David Cameron has rejected growing demands from Conservative MPs for him to soften the blow from the huge cuts in tax credits that will take effect next April. The Prime Minister dashed hopes that the...
View ArticleUber has challenged the taxi industry and it’s too late to apply the brakes
Transport for London’s belated attempt to regulate the sector is wrongheaded...
View ArticleSlave Descendant? Don’t Call Me Dave!
By Finian Cunningham October 04, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "SCF" - British Prime Minister David Cameron had some stiff upper-lip advice for Jamaicans while on an official visit this week to...
View ArticleZac Goldsmith, Tory candidate for London Mayor, once described prospect of...
Conservative candidate for London Mayor Zac Goldsmith once described the prospect of contesting the election as "a suicide mission" because people "have had enough of white male Etonians". The son of...
View ArticleJustine Greening: The Tories can offer working-class people a 'British dream'...
The Conservative Party can offer people from working-class backgrounds the “British Dream” where there is no bar to social mobility, International Development Secretary Justine Greening will say. In a...
View ArticleDenis Healey was one of the best PMs Britain never had
Resilient, loyal, an aesthete and former soldier with a talent for playing the fool, Healey was also a bruiser whose blunt style helped deprive him of Labour leadership...
View ArticlePity the poor Peston – economist, entertainer, shrinking violet
Pity poor Robert Peston: economist, entertainer, shrinking violet Not since that 1982 night when the Queen Mother’s life lay in the balance after emergency surgery to remove a fishbone has the nation...
View ArticleDenis Healey: A life in pictures
By Pippa Simm BBC News Denis Healey, one of the key figures in post-war British politics, has died aged 98 He was nationally famous for decades and held several leading roles for Labour, most notably...
View ArticleTax credits and trains can help Jeremy Corbyn outflank Tories
As the Tories assemble in Manchester for their conference, delegates will understandably reflect whimsically on the charged atmosphere of only a year ago. Then the feeling was one of anxiety at their...
View ArticleHeathrow Opponent Goldsmith Named as Tory London Mayor Candidate
Britain’s governing Conservative Party named Zac Goldsmith, an outspoken opponent of expanding London’s Heathrow airport, as its candidate to be the capital’s next mayor. He’ll face Labour’s Sadiq Khan...
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