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Has Osborne’s Autumn Statement moved him to left of Vince Cable?
Mr Osborne’s newly announced plans to scale back cuts and raise taxes brings him in line with policy positions promoted by his Lib Dem coalition partners during the last parliament.
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Mr Osborne’s newly announced plans to scale back cuts and raise taxes brings him in line with policy positions promoted by his Lib Dem coalition partners during the last parliament.
In a surprise move, the Chancellor tells MPs that his much-criticised plans to cut tax credits to working families are to be abandoned entirely.
Few believe that the extra money will do much more than pay off the ever increasing deficits and meet increased pension demands.
The government is putting a positive spin on today’s big announcement on defence spending. How strong will the armed forces really be in 2020?
Warnings are coming thick and fast from all quarters that the NHS is under intense strain. That’s before junior doctors have voted on possible industrial action. And the winter hasn’t even started.
Allies of Iain Duncan Smith feel they have fought a feisty rearguard action after the Treasury came snooping round their universal credit money.
The so-called Islamic State group (IS) wants to expand its self-proclaimed Caliphate from Syria and Iraq to other parts of the Middle East, North Africa and even Europe. How will this be funded?
Students protest in London against a student loans system that already costs them some £40,000 over three years, and is set to become even more expensive, especially for those on low incomes.
David Cameron has made much of how the Commons has passed the tax credit changes and the Lords were defying the elected chamber when they voted against them on Monday.
Chancellor George Osborne says tax credit reforms will go ahead, despite the government’s dramatic defeat in the Lords on cuts for millions of low-income families.
The Lords are debating whether to scupper George Osborne’s latest change to tax credits. What’s it all about?
“People are just frightened,” one Tory MP said. He likened the atmosphere of fear to Gordon Brown’s domination of Labour MPs ahead of his succession to the party leadership.
TalkTalk has received a ransom demand from someone claiming to be responsible for a cyber attack, the company has said.
The Kray twins, Bond-style spy capers, scandalous MPs and the threat of imminent nuclear destruction all feature in previously classified documents from the 1950s released by the National Archives.
Waitrose has stopped buying fruit from a major supplier after an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News exposed the squalid living conditions of migrant workers.