Eastleigh: stage set for a fascinating political battle
Eastleigh has been transformed from a dull, safe seat to the stage for one of the most intriguing political battles in years. Political Correspondent Michael Crick looks at the players.
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Ministers announce plans to make special arrangements for benefit claimants who could be at risk of getting into greater financial difficulties under the coalition’s welfare reforms.
Eastleigh has been transformed from a dull, safe seat to the stage for one of the most intriguing political battles in years. Political Correspondent Michael Crick looks at the players.
David Cameron leaves here a happy if tired individual. He feels he’s proved he’s not isolated and at the same time got what he came for.
Boris Johnson has promised to “keep police numbers high” in the capital. But FactCheck discovers that officer strength is really at a five-year low.
Whether David Cameron says it or not, his supporters are already proclaiming this week’s EU budget deal as a vindication of his Europe speech and hardline strategy.
With the words “flexible inflation target” peppering his Treasury select committee hearing, new Bank of England Governor Mark Carney clearly wants to do more to help Britain’s contracting economy.
The government’s controversial new “bedroom tax” will cost rather than save money in parts of the country, it has been claimed. Reporter Ciaran Jenkins explains.
MP Mark Field says the reforms to housing benefit which will cut the income of social housing tenants deemed to have spare rooms is necessary to ease overcrowding for other families.
As MPs carry out an inquiry into the private rented sector, councils say “extortionate fees” charged by some letting agents are making it harder for people to find a home.
Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy describes the rise of supermarkets and the closure of small shops as “part of progress”, but what do you think?
Conservative cabinet members, junior ministers and party enforcers are among around 180 MPs poised to oppose or abstain in a vote on gay marriage, it was claimed today.
David Cameron faces a fresh backlash from Tory backbenchers after it emerged that marriage tax breaks will not be included in next month’s budget.
An office building blast kills 25 people and injures 101 at the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos.
David Cameron calls for the next wave of international development targets to focus on extreme poverty.
The MoD budget is not guaranteed protection in the 2015-16 spending round after all – the perils of letting the prime minister conduct his own briefings perhaps?