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So there we have it. Clarity, honesty, and candour on Day 22 of the election campaign. Not at any of the party political press conferences. No, it’s been left to the trusty holders of the spending shield of truth: the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Ed Balls says that Conservative efficiency savings will mean a cut of £1.7bn from the schools budget, but is he right? FactCheck finds out.
Our online poll finds Vince Cable the winner as he joins Alistair Darling to condemn George Osborne’s proposed tax cuts in Channel 4’s ground-breaking Ask the Chancellors debate.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown accepts he made a mistake when he told MPs that defence spending had risen every year in real terms, following an investigation by Cathy Newman’s FactCheck.
Labour claims the Tories will slash £200m from the Sure Start budget FactCheck finds out if it’s true.
Philip Hammond insists the Conservatives can make up to £1.5bn worth of savings this year to help cut Britain’s deficit.
Channel 4 News FactCheck runs the rule over Philip Hammond’s claim that cutting Child Trust Funds and Child Tax Credits will save over £1bn.
Channel 4 News’s Iraq Inquiry blogger reviews a day of predictable evidence delivered in unexpected ways.
In March we ran a lengthy extract of an interview with financier Jim Rogers, who described the perceived G20 wisdom on running huge deficits to boost world growth as “ludicrous and insane”. It is one of our most downloaded videos of the year.
Gary Gibbon
Former Home Secretary, John Reid, is one of a number of senior Labour politicians who may rebel on proposed cuts to Territorial Army training.
Gary Gibbon
Brown’s promises to protect rises in the minimum wage, rises in child tax credits, hospitals, schools and police numbers would mean big squeezes elsewhere.
Gary Gibbon
The first party conference of the era of cuts and the top story is, you guessed it, cuts. Nick Clegg promises to be “savage” about cuts and drops a heavy hint that the biggest internal cut will have to be the party’s commitment to the abolition of tuition fees.
Gary Gibbon
Brown speaks of ‘cuts’ at the TUC; a small demo greets the opening of the Prime Minister’s speech.
Jon Snow
We are about to see Obama’s mettle tested domestically in America. I’m in the States this week and very struck by how his first international foray has gone down here. To some extent its supposed success has been taken for granted. There have been comparisons with Reagan in that the office of the US president…
Councils in England have been given an emergency £600 million by the Government to stave off financial crisis after Tory MPs threatened a rebellion over the prospect of steep spending cuts in an election year.