The economic argument for PFI has never been worse
Faisal ponders why, with the change in borrowing costs, the number of PFI projects reaching financial completion in 2011 has risen.
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Bigger than Tesco: the little-known commodity group Glencore prepares for a stock market flotation that could make its chief executive one of Europe’s wealthiest men.
David Cameron says that he does give out internships to friends and supporters and will continue to do so, distancing himself from Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg’s criticism of such behaviour.
The claim “Filling a hole of half a billion pounds by cutting university places could mean over 30,000 fewer young people going to university.”
Faisal ponders why, with the change in borrowing costs, the number of PFI projects reaching financial completion in 2011 has risen.
Former home secretaries John Reid and Alan Johnson go head-to-head on Channel 4 News ahead of the referendum on AV, as an expert panel analyses the “Yes” and “No” campaigns.
The increasingly bitter political battle over voting reform will shift up a gear on Monday as the country’s most senior politicians go head-to-head in a last-ditch push for votes.
It’s the issue that’s threatening to split the Coalition down the middle. But does David Cameron have a hope of hitting his targets on immigration?
Economists tell Channel 4 News interest rates for home owners may stay on hold until the end of next year as inflation dropped unexpectedly last month to 4 per cent.
Is the independent report on banking “transformative”? Economics Editor Faisal Islam is not convinced.
A new range of property taxes on expensive homes is set to be introduced as the economy recovers, allowing the government to scrap the 50p income tax rate as promised, the Deputy Prime Minister says.
The Deputy Prime Minister leader is overheard bemoaning how close he has become to David Cameron. Is this Nick Clegg’s ‘bigotgate’?
Theresa May announces the Government is cracking down hard on sham colleges and bogus courses – but Labour says plans to cut visas for foreign students are ‘a con’.
Ten months after they formed the Coalition, the Liberal Democrats list their big achievements. FactCheck takes them to task.
Relations – both international and domestic – are at the centre of exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions. But one key player is notable by his absence, as Peter McHugh reports.
The rising cost of oil, along with fuel duty and VAT increases, sees the price of petrol rise to £6 a gallon.