Gary Gibbon
Operation ‘get up Tory noses’
First it was Norman Baker serving under Theresa May at the Home Office. Now Simon Hughes has been offered a job in the Justice Department that he just couldn’t refuse.
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As unemployment falls, will interest rates rise?
Unemployment falls by 167,000 to reach a five-year low of 2.32 million. The jobless rate is now 7.1 per cent, just above the level that could trigger an interest rate rise.
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Cameron ducks proposals to veto RBS bank bonuses
Prime Minister David Cameron ducks Labour demands for the government to veto individual bonuses paid to RBS bankers.
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Conservative MPs call for UK veto over EU laws
More than 90 Conservative MPs write to David Cameron urging him to give parliament a national veto over current and future EU laws.
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Clegg: ‘Chinese style’ welfare reforms penalise young people
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launches an assault on “Chinese-style” welfare reforms being floated by the Tories.
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Tories split over Osborne’s welfare cuts strategy
Cracks in the government’s welfare strategy open up after allies of Iain Duncan Smith round on George Osborne for announcing a further £12bn in benefit cuts.
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Nick Clegg: Osborne’s cuts to welfare a ‘monumental mistake’
Nick Clegg criticises George Osborne’s plans to fix the British economy with deep cuts to the welfare budget, saying the chancellor is heaping the burden on those with the “narrowest shoulders”.
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Cameron pledges to protect pension rise
In his first major pledge ahead of the 2015 general election, the prime minister appeals to older voters by promising a guaranteed rise in the state pension under a Conservative government.
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Police staff and firefighters to strike on New Year’s Eve
Thousands of police civilian staff in London, as well as firefighters in the capital, are set to strike on New Year’s Eve, the PCS union says.
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Gary Gibbon
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Key questions: Why didn’t the recession curb personal debt?
The national economy might be showing signs of recovery, but personal debt has climbed steadily in the last five years. So why are more and more people are putting Christmas on credit?
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Born in the 70s? You might be poorer than your parents
People born in the 1960s and 1970s are “worse off” than the post-war baby boomer generation, according to an Institute for Fiscal Studies report. But what makes the two generations so different?
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FactCheck: Will migrants have to ‘speak English or lose benefits’?
No English, no benefits, today’s headlines would have us believe. But the truth about the latest crackdown on “benefit tourism” is not that simple.
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Speak English or risk losing benefits, migrants warned
Migrants will be questioned about their English language skills before being able to claim income-related benefits.
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MPs ‘cannot refuse’ Ipsa’s 11 per cent pay rise
MPs who choose to decline the 11 per cent pay rise proposed by Ipsa will be given the money whether they want it or not, so what will they do with it?
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Cathy Newman
Government wastes more money in its defence
If the eyes of the world weren’t on a certain stadium in Soweto, the chances are we’d all be devoting a lot more time to scrutinising yet another government U-turn – this time at the MoD.
