Election 2015: how will seven-party politics work?
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
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Do you have to be posh to get to the top in modern Britain? Or is a private education a waste of money? FactCheck looks at the evidence…
A planned 24-hour strike by Network Rail workers is suspended after a new offer of a 2 per cent pay rise this year.
Talks have been arranged to avert a national rail strike that could cause travel chaos across the country over the bank holiday at the end of May.
Network Rail workers vote overwhelmingly for a strike over pay as the government pushes ahead with plans to make it harder for public sector workers to stage walkouts.
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
Labour’s rent reforms: left-wing madness or the only answer to soaring rents? Neither, really…
Labour’s election manifesto commits to inflation-linked tax credits and a media sector in which no one owner enjoys undue influence.
The Conservatives promise to spend an extra £8bn a year on the health service by 2020 – but critics say they have not spelled out how they will pay for it.
Ministers insist the government has not cut spending on mental health services. So where is the evidence?
The Conservatives are putting their handling of the economy at the centre of the election battle. But not everything has gone according to plan.
The revelation that many MPs were abusing the expenses they received at public expense led to an overhaul of the system in 2010. What has changed since then?
David Cameron and Ed Miliband make their big pitch to the nation tonight. Don’t want to get taken in by the spin? Read this first.
Before the last election, Nick Clegg said it was “time to say goodbye to broken promises”. Did he keep his word?
Labour says people are £1,600 worse off under the coalition. George Osborne says we will be £900 better off. Who’s right?
George Osborne says more optimistic growth and borrowing forecasts, boosted by the falling price of oil, mean the squeeze on public spending can end a year earlier than predicted.