Theresa May – to cap or not to cap?
Theresa May was being a bit sneaky pretty much blaming the Pay Review Bodies for the one per cent pay recommendations that have come through since the government announced a one per cent pay cap.
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Theresa May was being a bit sneaky pretty much blaming the Pay Review Bodies for the one per cent pay recommendations that have come through since the government announced a one per cent pay cap.
The EU delegations, as ever rather well informed about UK politics, mutter that Theresa May can’t last for long and appears to be the prisoner of the Hard Brexit Right (as they would term it).
The Metropolitan Police have been given permission to hold the man suspected of yesterday’s van attack on Muslim worshippers in north London until the weekend. Darren Osborne was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism offences and is still being questioned. And police in South Wales have confirmed a report on this programme…
The day began with former Chancellor George Osborne describing Theresa May as a “dead woman walking” and her Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon denying the controversial floated deal with the DUP was a formal coalition. It ended with the Prime Minister’s reshuffle of her cabinet and more questions about where this political impasse is headed.
How much The Resolution Foundation came up with the following graphs to show how the three main UK parties are altering the graph lines on inter-generational benefits distribution.
It’s hard to think of an occasion when a manifesto commitment has been overturned mid-campaign. In a stark formless landscape of rigid sloganeering, this striking policy stood out even more than it would normally and had a big negative impact on older voters who read their newspapers and listen to bulletins.
The government sold its remaining shares in Lloyds today, with the bank declaring that the sale returned “more than £21.2 billion to the British taxpayer, repaying £894 million more than the original investment”.
Joining me now: the technology entrepreneur and former policy advisor to David Cameron and George Osborne — Rohan Silva.
The chair of the parliamentary standards watchdog is to review the rules on MPs’ second jobs after George Osborne’s appointment as the Editor of the London newspaper the Evening Standard.
Philip Hammond’s U-turn on National Insurance contributions for the self-employed is not just politically humbling for Number 11 but, critics charge, deeply worrying for the future of the public purse.
Given the recent speculation about an early election it’s probably worth saying this was the least plausible pre-election Budget in history.
Something very big has started and the chances of it being stopped are about nil. The chances of it being substantially refined from the Theresa May plan in any way that Remain supporters would like looks pretty remote too.
Philip Hammond defended six years of Conservative austerity at his first Autumn Statement. Was he right?
The struggling families at the heart of Theresa May’s mission statement got very little out of today. The revolution has been postponed.