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Going up: grad tax. Going down: IDS?
Vince Cable wil point towards a graduate tax in a speech tomorrow, while Iain Duncan Smith is having a touch time at the DWP, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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The business secretary Vince Cable has referred a proposed buyout of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to the media regulator Ofcom.
Graduates face paying thousands more for degrees under proposals published today – and Business Secretary Vince Cable tells Gary Gibbon many courses will cease to receive government subsidies.
Vince Cable wil point towards a graduate tax in a speech tomorrow, while Iain Duncan Smith is having a touch time at the DWP, blogs Gary Gibbon.
As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
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