Faisal Islam
Never waste a good crisis
Faisal Islam blogs on how tomorrow’s budget will signal the beginning of the public sector recession.
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Unions clash with coalition over pension review
A clash is looming between the government and unions over plans to reform public sector pensions. Report author Lord Hutton tells Channel 4 News: “There is change coming”.
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BBC freezes licence fee
The BBC Trust proposes to freeze the licence fee for two years saying the move is response to the economic climate. Siobhan Kennedy finds the cuts do not match those in the rest of the public sector.
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Unions threaten mass strikes against cuts
Britain’s trade unions are gathering in Manchester today for the annual TUC congress with the threat of the biggest mass strikes by public sector workers since the poll tax riots of 1990.
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TUC warns of mass protest to budget cuts
Budget cuts could prompt mass strikes by public sector workers and protests similar to the poll tax riots of 1990, the country’s top trade union warns.
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Low civil service pay?
How does civil service pay compare to jobs in the public sector and the private sector?
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How much will employment increase?
David Cameron says employment will increase – but new figures out today show 600,000 public sector jobs face the chop. FactCheck investigates.
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Faisal Islam
Labour’s ‘double-flip’ as election phoney war begins
Labour is claiming the Tories would endanger the public sector, while squirreling away a £34 billion fiscal expansion, blogs economics editor Faisal Islam.
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Gary Gibbon
Women lose out in the slasher wars
The public sector pay freeze, the biggest contributor to the government money chest announced by George Osborne today, hits women considerably more than men.
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Labour’s investment plan has to be ‘more than patchy policies’ says economist
We were joined by economist and University College London professor Mariana Mazzucato.
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Scrapping winter fuel payments ‘a really difficult decision’, says Labour’s Lucy Powell
We spoke to Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, and started by asking her if Labour’s gloomy warnings were the right strategy.
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‘Labour was planning all along to raise taxes,’ says Mel Stride
We were joined by Mel Stride, who was the Work and Pensions Secretary until the election and is now running to be Conservative leader.
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‘We’ll set out a ten-year plan for prisons’ – Treasury minister
We spoke to James Murray – the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and asked him about the bleak picture the prime minister painted.
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Pay disputes ‘another problem left by the Tories’, says Labour MP
We’re joined by Labour MP Meg Hillier, who’s Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
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‘Europe can do more’ to help Ukraine, says a former defence secretary
We spoke to the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who stood down last summer, and left the Commons after the election last week.
