Faisal Islam
The Chancellor’s sunlit uplands
The spending round contained some surprises and innovations, Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
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FactCheck Q&A: how will the new benefits cap work?
Do we really need another benefits cap? How will it work – and is it right to exclude pensioners?
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Is the work programme working?
Mark Hoban, minister for work and pensions, says the government’s work programme has made “significant progress” as figures show more than half of contractors have failed to meet their targets.
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Chancellor to unveil £11.5bn of spending cuts
Chancellor George Osborne is to draw up the battle lines for the next general election as he sets out his final spending plans before the country goes to the polls in 2015.
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Faisal Islam
Spending review lessons from Sheffield for Osborne
Capital spending on infrastructure has been halved by George Osborne. On Wednesday, he will announce an increase in this type of spending, but why was this not done three years ago?
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CQC cover-up scandal: ‘It couldn’t be any worse’
The father of baby Joshua Titcombe, who died in hospital, tells Channel 4 News he felt physically sick on learning that Cynthia Bower ordered the CQC failings cover-up and calls for a wider inquiry.
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32 years’ prison for members of Liverpool drugs family
Members of the Fitzgibbon crime family, whose violent drug-dealing made them a number one target for the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca), are sent down for a total of 32 years.
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FactCheck: have wages fallen by £1,300 a year?
Are the latest figures on jobs and wages cause for optimism or evidence of a “living standards crisis”? Are we really getting paid £1,300 a year less than in 2010?
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Would Ed Miliband’s social security plans work?
Ed Miliband promises a Labour government would create a “fair and sustainable” social security system – but would his policies work?
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Labour would axe winter fuel cash for rich, says Balls
The shadow chancellor announces Labour would cut winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, in a move intended to show the opposition’s willingness to display “iron discipline” once in power.
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FactCheck: are food banks plugging the benefits gap?
Charities say poor people are flocking to food banks because of weaknesses in the welfare state. Is that fair?
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Whitehall’s revolving doors – FactCheck Q&A
Dave Hartnett used to be top taxman but is now to work with Deloitte. Who does he follow? FactCheck gets behind the revolving doors of Whitehall.
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FactCheck: the cost of heterosexual civil partnerships
Extending the right to a civil partnership could to straight couples could cost the state up to £4bn, according to countless headlines. FactCheck isn’t convinced.
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Why straight couples want a civil partnership over marriage
As some MPs propose the same-sex marriage bill is amended to allow civil partnerships for heterosexuals, Channel 4 News hears why some would say “I don’t” to marriage – but “I do” to a civil partner.
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Unemployment rises to 2.52 million
Unemployment increases for the third time in a row, amid warnings that there are likely to be more job losses in the months ahead.
