Last quango in quad-land?
Tonight, as I write, the quad is meeting to try to sign off on the coalition’s last budget.
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Tories outperform election expectations, Mr Cameron may be able to govern without coalition partners – at the head of a minority administration or with a wafer-thin overall majority.
When to go to bed and when to wake up: Channel 4 News guides you through the most important timings for tomorrow night, so you won’t miss a thing.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats claim credit for today’s news of a 2.8 per cent rise in economic output. But Labour is dismissive, saying this is still the slowest recovery in 100 years.
George Osborne unveils a new raft of powers for prosecutors and tax authorities to clamp down on wealthy people who use offshore accounts to evade or avoid tax.
Tonight, as I write, the quad is meeting to try to sign off on the coalition’s last budget.
HSBC “disappointed” last year, its chief executive admits, as the bank reports a 17 per cent drop in profits following the recent tax avoidance scandal.
Ed Balls says voters have a “big choice” between rival economic strategies. But how much clear blue water really lies between the parties’ plans?
One Treasury source said this was “just where the graph lines happened to end up,” implying no champagne popping pencilled in for the big day five years off.
The Government is to invest £2.3bn in more than 1,400 flood defence projects to provide better protection from flooding for hundreds of thousands of homes.
Tory MPs tell me they suspect the chancellor’s getting all his infrastructure and NHS spending news out of the way early because he’s given up on getting a hearing for good news on Wednesday.
A tunnel passing Stonehenge is among dozens of new road schemes to be announced by the government, as part of £15bn of improvements to England’s roads.
A new “supercomputer”, weighing as much as 11 double-decker buses, could improve the Met Office’s weather forecasting and climate modelling.
The government backs proposals for a high speed rail link across some of the biggest cities in the north of England.
Nick Clegg revealed that George Osborne, when he refused to implement a bigger tax threshold leap in the 2012 budget, said: “I don’t want to deliver a Lib Dem budget.”
Thousands poured into the area around the Lib Dem Conference in Glasgow at lunchtime, just as the debates were getting under way. Alas for the Lib Dems they were here to see live comedy next door…