Barroso’s lecture and Clegg’s special agent
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the European summit in Brussels
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Britain’s economic recovery is being held back by a lack of women in the boardroom, says David Cameron, who suggests quotas may be necessary. But did it work in Norway? Channel 4 News reports.
One-in-seven shops on the UK’s high streets stood empty last year as further closures loom in 2012. Around 48,000 premises are vacant.
As the first person is charged for rioting last summer, a cross-party summit is held to tackle the potential causes. Channel 4 News speaks to a bereaved father who says the debate is too polarised.
As talks continue in Athens to avert a Greek debt default, there are fears that Portugal may need to be bailed out a second time.
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the European summit in Brussels
As a disused bank in Belfast is occupied in protest against the area’s housing problems, Channel 4 News asks whether an Occupy movement can bring about change – and why housing is of such concern.
Prime Minister David Cameron tells Europe it must be “bolder” and take difficult decisions in order to recover from its “perilous” economic state.
As official figures show that growth declined at the end of last year, Channel 4 News analyses what has happened to the British economy since the 2008-09 recession and what is in store.
It is the Bank of England governor’s piercing assault on bankers that sticks in the mind from today’s important speech in Brighton. He doesnt quite join Occupy the City, but he does suggest that British capitalism’s very legitimacy is up for grabs if bankers go too far on pay.
There is a major Labour operation going on to try to make sure that Labour doesn’t get labelled as some sort of “scrounger’s friend” in the Lords votes on welfare today and it’s making some Labour peers I’ve spoken to pretty unhappy.
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on the Cabinet and the “snooty so-and-sos” refusing to work for free at Poundland.
As the government warns that local authorities have “a moral duty” to freeze council tax, Channel 4 New hears from the housing minister and a Conservative council leader who disagrees with him.
“Some of the 371,000 might have made substantial contributions to the exchequer through tax and National Insurance deductions for many years, and only claimed benefits for a short time.”
With retail sales rising in the run-up to Christmas, Channel 4 News looks at the high street victims of the economic downturn.
Over 370,000 migrants who came to Britain to work, study or visit, are now claiming work-related benefits, new government figures show. Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long reports.