The Chancellor’s sunlit uplands
The spending round contained some surprises and innovations, Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
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The officer who led the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation tells Channel 4 News allegations of a smear campaign against the family are “shaming” and “hugely damaging”.
An anti-gay marriage group says children with same-sex parents turn out worse than those with a mum and dad. Fact or fiction?
Sexual relationships, fathering a child, using dead children’s identities and a false name in court – in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview Bob Lambert talks about his years as an undercover officer.
A diplomatic row is brewing after Bolivian President Evo Morales’s jet is grounded in Vienna to be searched, presumably for Edward Snowden. But Bolivia says officials were refused entry to the plane.
The home secretary launches a public consultation into police stop and search powers, after official figures show the number of searches leading to arrests is “far too low for comfort”.
Mark Carney, the incoming governor of the Bank of England, is widely praised. So how good a job has he done in his five years in charge of Canada’s central bank?
The Treasury portions out £100bn on new homes, railways and roads in the second part of the comprehensive spending review – but Labour dismisses the investment as “hot air”.
The spending round contained some surprises and innovations, Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
The Chancellor’s threat to take away the benefits of anyone refusing to learn English is given an ‘F’ for fiction by FactCheck.
There are mixed reactions to George Osborne’s spending review; charities and unions attack curbs on welfare but business groups praise the chancellor’s commitment to infrastructure spending.
Chancellor George Osborne tells MPs Britain will have to endure another £11.5bn of cuts, with further pain for public sector workers. But infrastructure spending will receive a boost.
Julia Gillard has been ousted as Australian prime minister by rival Kevin Rudd, just three years after she toppled Rudd in a similar fashion.
The truth of the matter is that the Qatari succession is opaque, and no-one outside the royal family has a clear idea of what this transition means.
David Cameron calls for an investigation into claims from an undercover officer that he was part of an operation to “smear” the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
Jill Finney, who is at the centre of allegations of a cover-up over baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital, denies ordering a critical report to be deleted.