Faisal Islam
The economic dividing lines between the parties
Faisal Islam blogs on the stance of Labour, Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to cutting the UK’s £167bn national debt.
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Leaders’ debate: policing, education, immigration & cancer rates
FactCheck looks at a variety of claims from last night’s leaders’ debate
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Did Balls get his sums right on schools budget cuts?
Ed Balls says that Conservative efficiency savings will mean a cut of £1.7bn from the schools budget, but is he right? FactCheck finds out.
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Faisal Islam
A public service slasher or a deficit weakling?
“It’s April Fool’s Day,” is what I muttered to myself, when looking at the line of attack from Darling, Mandelson and Byrne in their extensive 180-page dossier on the “Conservative credibility gap”. Yes it outlines a £22bn gap from the Conservatives on tax and spending pledges, but that suggests that the Labour frontbench think that…
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The national insurance hole in Osborne’s debt battle
Can the shadow Chancellor cut the deficit and cut taxes at one fell swoop? FactCheck checks it out.
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Faisal Islam
Osborne puts clear blue water between the parties
Shadow chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that he will reverse Labour’s planned rise in national insurance puts clear blue water between the main parites, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Parties in pre-election social care clash
As the prime minister announces this month’s budget, and effectively the May election, Channel 4 News is bringing the three main parties together to debate the future of social care for the elderly.
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Faisal Islam
IFS budget: don’t cut now, but cut larger, later
The message in the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Green Budget, published today, is: don’t cut now but plan credible larger cuts for the entirety of the next parliament, blogs Faisal Islam.
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A doctor's blog from Kenya
We’ve received the following posting from Dr Catherine Maternowska, who works in the Mombasa hospital featured in last month’s film on child sex abuse in Kenya. The hope among the hospital’s staff is that the film – and Catherine’s blog – will promote awareness, both at home and abroad, of the problems Kenyan children face.…
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Faisal Islam
Where next for the wizards of Goldman Sachs?
Rising out of the carnage of the credit storm is the new gleaming headquarters of the titan of post crisis American banking. Goldman Sachs has emerged richer and more powerful than ever, but the Goldman glow is being replaced by a Goldman glare. It has without doubt been the most significant shift I have noticed…
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Gary Gibbon
A quiet, but major, shift in the nature of the welfare state
Peter Mandelson’s first speech on the universities since they were swallowed up by his department makes it clear that he expects the tuition fees cap to move up or be dumped altogether. It’s in a sentence about accessibility and making sure universities maintain access for the poorest, but it is there nonetheless. It comes just…
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Jon Snow
I broke my rule and appeared in underpants
I crossed channels this morning to ITV. A few months back I was contacted by the Prostate Cancer Campaign to be asked whether I would join my first cousin, Peter Snow, and my first cousin once removed, Dan Snow, to front an awareness-raising campaign.
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Zambia: can IMF plug the looming crisis?
Zambia is reckoned to be the 13th poorest country in the world. Sixty-four per cent of the people live in poverty. More than one in six children die before their fifth birthday, and if you live to the age of 42 you are doing better than average. Britain is the largest bilateral donor to Zambia,…
