Osborne puts clear blue water between the parties
Shadow chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that he will reverse Labour’s planned rise in national insurance puts clear blue water between the main parites, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Shadow chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that he will reverse Labour’s planned rise in national insurance puts clear blue water between the main parites, blogs Faisal Islam.
As the parties prepare to fight the forthcoming general election on economic issues, Jon Snow visits Luton to see what impact the recession has had on voters.
Gary Gibbon blogs on how MPs are expressing regrets, but few apologies as they prepare to retire from the Commons in the wake of the expenses scandal.
One subject that guarantees a yawn amongst the chattering classes, and that is more or less anything to do with the House of Lords.
Has politics been turned on its head, with Labour now the party of “big business”, blogs Jon Snow.
Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Commons standards watchdog is reported today to be in a hurry to fix a new regime for MPs’ expenses before the next election ushers in a new slew of MPs. There is no such hurry in the House of Lords. Nor is anyone in the Lords over anxious…
Political editor Gary Gibbon on Labour’s decision to stop using the lawyers three MPs are using to defend themselves, and David Cameron using the scandal to attack Gordon Brown.
Jon Snow blogs on the aftermath of the expense scandal and the call for real reform in the Houses of power.
Sir Christopher Kelly, Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, talked to the Public Administration Committee this morning. He refused several invitations to take a pot shot at Sir Thomas Legg. He said to the committee: “I think all of you are guilty of having gone along with a system which you must…
Jon Snow looks forward to 2010 and the changes a general election, Iran, China and the next steps for a climate change deal.
The absurd antics unfolding around the dinner table in Brussels are giving Europe an awful name. Protective of the national sovereignty of member states, the interests of the citizens of those states have always been represented by their heads of government. The problem with this way of doing business is that it has all the…
The tale of Yusuf, injured while working as a translator for the British Army in Afghanistan, highlights the gulf in perceptions of responsibility, blogs Nick Paton Walsh
The disrepute into which parliament has been dragged by the peers’ and MPs’ expenses scandal continues to dominate politics, over and above party rivalry, writes Jon Snow.
Gary Gibbon asks: can Gordon Brown’s announcement today of further immigration controls win over the mainly white “Clocking Off” social group?
MPs praying for a rewrite of the Kelly report on expenses, on the basis of reports in the last few days, are whistling in the dark, writes Gary Gibbon.