George ‘Power To The People’ Osborne?
The prime minister and the chancellor are joined at the hip in a programme to own the centre ground and to shift it to the right at the same time.
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Justice Secretary Michael Gove accuses the Remain campaign of treating voters like children and trying to scare them into voting to stay in the EU in June’s referendum.
“Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites.” Drug Policy Alliance website An intriguing quote by a former aide to disgraced US President Richard Nixon is making headlines.…
The CBI says its members overwhelmingly want Britain to stay in the EU. Does the organisation represent the whole business community?
Heads of more than a third of the country’s biggest businesses are supporting Britain’s continued membership of the EU ahead of the June referendum.
Conspiracy theories are blaming the Zika health crisis on everything from pesticides to genetically modified mosquitoes. Don’t bite.
Dodgy numbers have plagued the debate on whether Britain should stay in the EU. Has the Stay campaign done any better?
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan approves a new 450-pupil selective school in Sevenoaks. Defence Minister and local MP Michael Fallon says he’s “thrilled”, but are grammar schools on the way back?
The prime minister and the chancellor are joined at the hip in a programme to own the centre ground and to shift it to the right at the same time.
The former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson has announced his plans to lead a Conservative campaign to leave the EU in a column in today’s Times.
A US businessman’s efforts to cut the pay gap within his company backfire, while in the UK, the CBI warns a national living wage will be a ‘gamble’ is it possible to reach wage equality?
The Home Secretary Theresa May says the system of free movement in Europe needs changing, and migrants should only cross borders into a new country if they have a job waiting for them there.
The government says it wants most hospital doctors on seven-day contracts by the end of this parliament, claiming thousands of patients are dying unnecessarily thanks to lack of weekend cover. The British Medical Association says its members welcome a seven-day NHS, but it wants to know how ministers propose to pay for the extra hours. The…
The government has published its Trade Union Bill today outlining the new laws on strike ballots and political donations.
George Osborne produces a budget surprise with his announcement that a compulsory national living wage will be introduced. But it will be lower than the voluntary living wage that already exists.
A week before the general election and in the week when the Tories are stressing that the economy is safe in their hands, today’s figures point to a marked slowdown.