Tories still won’t publish efficiency savings calculations in full
Faisal Islam blogs on how Conservative adviser Martin Read has revealed more of the Tories’ spending cuts plans, but the party won’t release the full calculations.
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In his first speech to the CBI as Prime Minister, David Cameron promises to boost the economy and replace jobs lost in public spending cuts – but businesses remain anxious, Cathy Newman finds out.
The Harrier jet is to be retired after more than 40 years of service to the RAF and Navy, the government confirmed today in its announcement of defence spending cuts.
As David Cameron defends spending cuts in his keynote speech to the Conservative party conference, Gaby Hinsliff looks at what the prime minister can learn from his party and his predecessors.
David Cameron tells the Conservative conference: there is no alternative to big spending cuts and it takes two to cut the deficit.
Coordinated strikes in major European cities cause travel disruption as workers protest against spending cuts while austerity measures begin to bite across the continent.
Faisal Islam blogs on how Conservative adviser Martin Read has revealed more of the Tories’ spending cuts plans, but the party won’t release the full calculations.
GMB boss Paul Kenny tells a private meeting at the TUC conference that he warned Gordon Brown he would be finished as a political force if he followed the Conservative spending cuts agenda.
Attention is increasingly focusing on what will be in the Chancellor’s budget in less than two weeks time. And the mood music is negative.
We’re joined by Labour MP Meg Hillier, who’s Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
We sit down with the leader of the Liberal Democrats – Sir Ed Davey.
Birmingham City council, the biggest local authority in the country, has effectively declared itself bankrupt with a formal notice of financial distress.
A survey due out next week from a teaching union will reveal the impossible financial choices headteachers are facing.
The government’s decision to shorten the energy support scheme – and the warning of spending cuts to come – could have a major effect on the finances of families up and down the country. We discussed this with Helen Barnard, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the anti-poverty campaign group.
She says her plans are “affordable”.
Boris Johnson is calling it a “once in a generation” plan to modernise the armed forces