Eastleigh: stage set for a fascinating political battle
Eastleigh has been transformed from a dull, safe seat to the stage for one of the most intriguing political battles in years. Political Correspondent Michael Crick looks at the players.
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Eastleigh has been transformed from a dull, safe seat to the stage for one of the most intriguing political battles in years. Political Correspondent Michael Crick looks at the players.
We have found 153 names on the lists compiled by Derek Webb – people on which he says he was asked to carry out surveillance by the News of the World between 2003 and 2011. Michael Crick has the list.
Ed Miliband has wielded the axe against one of the first frontbenchers to declare for him. Some Ed M fans feel there are too many David M supporters in senior positions who are not true believers in the Ed M cause.
Not very disciplined,” was how one Shadow Cabinet member close to Ed Miliband described Ed Balls’ touting of Yvette Cooper as a future Labour leader – Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes
Our Political Editor says it’s not just the News of the World being put on the spot over phone-hacking. MPs are also asking questions about the police handling of the inquiry.
Rupert Murdoch is standing by Rebekah Brooks as calls grow for her to resign from News International because of the phone hacking scandal. Add your voice to the live blog.
Will the debate over whether to adopt AV stimulate the malaise surrounding interest in politics, asks Jon Snow.
One Conservative backbencher tells our Political Editor that Tory MPs could try to pull down the Coalition and force a General Election if the Yes camp wins the AV referendum. But it could be Ed Miliband who has most to gain.
Downing Street communications boss Andy Coulson resigns following allegations of phone-hacking in his former job. Channel 4 News looks at the implications for the PM, amid calls for a police inquiry.
Our Economics Editor looks at Nick Clegg’s reassurances to “alarm clock Britain” – and questions whether the promise of £700-a-year tax cuts by the end of the Parliament is as reliable as the Deputy Prime Minister makes out.
The Labour leader Ed Miliband accuses the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, George Osborne, of “practising a deceit” over the economy. Gary Gibbon investigates.
The claim “If you look at the effect (of VAT) as compared with people’s income then, yes, it is regressive” Prime Minister David Cameron, PM Direct, 5th January, 2011 Cathy Newman checks it out It would appear the Prime Minister spent last night reading FactCheck – which yesterday looked into his Chancellor’s claim that VAT…
“If you look at the population and how much they spend, then VAT is progressive…Income tax and National Insurance would have a more damaging impact on poorer people in our society and it’s worth remembering that in the Budget I took substantial means to reduce the NI burden” Chancellor George Osborne MP, BBC Radio 4’s Today programme January 4, 2011
The Chancellor, George Osborne, defends the rise in VAT which came into effect today, saying that the government had no hidden plans to introduce further tax increases.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have sung the praises of Coalition Government and backed Vince Cable, despite his comments to reporters that he had the “nuclear option” of walking out if pushed too far.