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The full scale of spending cuts will be unveiled today when Chancellor George Osborne outlines the details of the government’s comprehensive spending review.
Thousands of union members and campaigners have staged protests in Westminster, rallying against the Government’s spending cuts.
A clash is looming between the government and unions over plans to reform public sector pensions. Report author Lord Hutton tells Channel 4 News: “There is change coming”.
Chancellor George Osborne announces a tough new cap on the amount of benefits to be claimed by any family. Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam says that around 50,000 families will be affected.
The Hollywood actor Tony Curtis has died – at the age of 85. Culture Editor Matthew Cain looks back at the star’s life.
The career of Tony Curtis peaked in the 50s and 60s and headed off into TV in the following decade. Stephanie West recalls her first memory of his impact.
Coordinated strikes in major European cities cause travel disruption as workers protest against spending cuts while austerity measures begin to bite across the continent.
Cutting public spending would prolong the recession and lead to unemployment soaring to four million, the country’s most senior union leaders have warned.
Britain will become a “darker, brutish and more frightening place” as the government’s sweeping spending cuts take effect, the TUC leader Brendan Barber has warned.
Britain’s trade unions are gathering in Manchester today for the annual TUC congress with the threat of the biggest mass strikes by public sector workers since the poll tax riots of 1990.
George Osborne is called on for an emergency debate questioning the government’s programme of cuts, as the spectre of collective union strikes rises on the back of the TUC’s meeting in Manchester.
Budget cuts could prompt mass strikes by public sector workers and protests similar to the poll tax riots of 1990, the country’s top trade union warns.
Americans watching the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are all suffering the unfamiliar sensation that there is nothing they can do to prevent imminent environmental catastrophe.
Hannah Storm reflects on the effect the Haiti earthquake has had on the country’s religions.
As TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber addresses the TUC conference with talk of “social costs of Tory recessions”, the Conservatives have already won the fight to shift the argument to the need for cuts.