Not a good week, or month, for Labour
The coalition leadership has dominated the media conversation over the last few weeks, leaving Labour to pick up the pieces of the party’s own internal wrangles.
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Ed Miliband hits back at critics of his leadership, insisting that he relishes the fight to restore public confidence in Labour and has a “very clear plan” for the party.
The coalition leadership has dominated the media conversation over the last few weeks, leaving Labour to pick up the pieces of the party’s own internal wrangles.
Government ministers will spend most of the year bedecked in high-visibility jackets to remind you how busy they are pushing growth … but rising unemployment, insolvencies and low confidence seem with us for 2012.
Mr Miliband reminded MPs of the Chancellor’s optimistic assessment at the time of the spending review in November last year. George Osborne said at the time that private sector job creation would “far outweigh” cuts in public sector employment. But have those high hopes – based on forecasts from the independent Office of Budget Responsibility, been dashed?
In their 2010 manifesto the Tories say: “We will legislate in the first session of a new parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.” Clearly, no such legislation has been forthcoming.
On Wednesday, Britain is facing its biggest public sector strike for decades, hitting schools, hospitals and airports. Channel 4 News finds out which services are likely to be affected.
As a leaked document blames England Rugby team’s disastrous Rugby World Cup on a lack of leadership, a leadership expert tells Channel 4 News that coach Martin Johnson was “doomed to failure”.
A leaked classified memo suggests 16,500 army personnel, including as many as 2,500 wounded soldiers, could be made redundant by April 2015. The MoD has rejected the information as “incorrect”.
As police warn they could use rubber bullets at the higher education march, a student protest group tells Channel 4 News it is a “scare tactic” aimed at stopping people attending the demo.
Amid reports that Greece’s defence minister has sacked his defence chiefs, premier Papandreou fights to hold his government together over a referendum pledge on the latest eurozone bailout.
The Bishop of London has told the protesters camped outside St Paul’s that they should have a dialogue but that it would be wise for the Church to pursue legal options too.
Latest updates, pictures and video from the Labour autumn conference in Liverpool.
An 8,000-tonne section of the Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier begins a 600 mile journey from Glasgow to a shipyard in the north of Scotland to be assembled.
Exclusive: A survey by YouGov for Channel 4/ITN reveals British people think poor parenting, criminal behaviour and gang culture is causing the unrest in cities across the UK.
Thousands more civil servants are set to lose their jobs at the Ministry of Defence in a second wave of cuts that will reduce its workforce by 40 per cent.