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Conflicting reports over future MoD spending
The MoD budget is not guaranteed protection in the 2015-16 spending round after all – the perils of letting the prime minister conduct his own briefings perhaps?
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George Osborne launches a vehement defence of the coalition’s benefits shake-up, insisting Britain can no longer afford to reward people who do the “wrong thing”.
The Cypriot parliament votes against plans to tax people’s bank deposits to secure a bailout from the EU and IMF. Meanwhile, the RAF flies 1 million euros in to keep British forces there in cash.
As Liam Fox becomes the latest senior figure to offer his solution to reviving the lacklustre economy, Channel 4 News looks at some of the other suggestions for curing Britain’s woes.
The last of the trials of students involved in the 2010 violent protests has ended with the acquittal of Alifie Meadows, whose skull was fractured by a police baton during the demonstration.
Restrictions on health and welfare benefits for immigrants from European Union states would have to apply equally to UK citizens under EU law, says Downing Street.
The MoD budget is not guaranteed protection in the 2015-16 spending round after all – the perils of letting the prime minister conduct his own briefings perhaps?
UK support for the French-led military operation in Mali could be cranked up after David Cameron’s vow to show “iron resolve” in tackling Islamist terrorism in the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis.
A rising death toll in Afghanistan, another round of army cuts and a new front opening on the war on terror. Is this the next phase in the decade of the drone?
Want a legacy? Then look abroad – for a chance to leave an impact on the world. But will America’s role be much more limited – as Obama’s new team seeks continuity, not change?
If the first term is all about making an impact, the second term is about the legacy. For Obama – still weathering an economic storm – gun control has forced itself to the top of his agenda.
They know what it is like to fight a costly, unwinnable war. Now Chuck Hagel and John Kerry are spearheading America’s new resolve to pull out of Afghanistan – for good.
President Obama has nominated maverick Republican Chuck Hagel as his new defence secretary – but critics in his own party are giving him a tough ride over his stance on Israel and Iran.
Price hikes will push another 300,000 people into fuel poverty by Christmas and 9 million homes could be in fuel poverty by 2016, according to the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group.
Influential economic think tank the IFS warns of drastic cuts and a million more paying higher rate tax if the government is to make the books balance.
George Osborne’s autumn statement contained more than a whiff of a long and chilly winter for millions of welfare claimants. But for millionaires’ row, it was an Indian summer. So who dodged a bullet?