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Magic numbers – free expansion of childcare
This expansion of the welfare state spends more on the better off than the poorest. There are relatively few parents who spend at or close to £10,000 a year on childcare.
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This expansion of the welfare state spends more on the better off than the poorest. There are relatively few parents who spend at or close to £10,000 a year on childcare.
The government says millions of families will benefit from a more generous childcare subsidy – but there is no new money on the table.
A new garden city is to be built in Ebsfleet in the Thames estuary, and the government’s help to buy scheme is to be extended until the end of the decade, Chancellor George Osborne announces.
Labour wants to raid bankers’ bonuses to create jobs for young people. The Conservatives say the sums don’t add up.
The chair of the UK Statistics Authority has added his voice to growing doubt over the government’s use of statistics on flood defence spending.
The PM is whizzing into Aberdeen, the granite city, on an RAF flight that the SNP MP Angus Robertson has coined “Scare Force One”.
David Cameron and Alex Salmond chair meetings in the UK’s oil and gas capital, Aberdeen, in the latest clash over Scottish independence and set out their plans for North Sea exploration.
Environmental experts say the damage caused by the recent flooding could have been prevented if the correct water management techniques had been used.
Twenty-seven bishops condemn the government’s “punitive” welfare reforms, which they say have forced people into food and fuel poverty.
David Cameron defends the government’s handling of the flood crisis and says lessons need to be learned during a visit to storm-damaged parts of Britain.
Turkey’s parliament sees violent scenes as members of the ruling and opposition party clash – not for the first time. We look at other debates where the battle of ideas has turned physical.
David Cameron said “money is no object” when it comes to flood relief. How expensive might that end up for the government? And who is going to pay the most? FactCheck does the sums.
The actor Matt Damon says he “will not be going into politics” because he loves what he does and “I’m able to throw rocks from the sidelines”.
Tonight Ed Miliband will make a speech arguing that the Blairite push for competition, the big market approach continued by the coalition, has reached the end of its productive life.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles says the government “made a mistake” and should have dredged the flood-hit Somerset Levels.