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Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the rise of Ed Davey
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George Osborne will announce plans to scrap national salaries for public sector workers and pay them according to their region instead – effectively meaning a pay cut of potentially for many of them.
Chancellor George Osborne is rumoured to be preparing to cut the 50p top rate of tax in next week’s budget.
Union leader calls for a pay rise for senior civil servants, after it is revealed some are paid as limited companies, a potentially tax saving device. But are they playing fair?
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the rise of Ed Davey
Taxing civil servants is one thing, but experts tell Channel 4 News that, if it is serious about tackling tax evasion, the UK should look to the US, which is waging “economic war” against Switzerland.
The government has ended a deal which meant the head of the Student Loans Company avoided thousands of pounds of income tax by being paid via his own private company.
“There’s good evidence that the John Lewis effect is not just a fluke. Employee-owned companies, particularly the smaller businesses the government is so keen to back, often do better than others.”
The biggest political porkies of 2011: Channel 4 News’ FactCheck team run through the dodgiest politics claims of the year.
FactCheck Q&A on the new deal for public sector pensions – is it any good; who are the winners and losers?
Some of the country’s largest unions are considering an offer from ministers on public sector pensions – but civil service union the PCS says “nothing has changed” since the November strikes.
Things are not well in public sector negotiations, Gary Gibbon learns.
The government and health unions reach agreement over reforms to NHS pensions, but a deal for civil servants is rejected.
Cabinet had a group therapy session today on Europe. Lib Dems shared their pain. Conservatives explained their difficulties. On the whole, there was a combined effort one Cabinet minister said to “keep down the heat”.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon on the regional variations of the public sector pension strike as MPs resort to what seems very much like old-fashioned class warfare in the Commons.
Ahead of his autumn statement, Channel 4 News looks at the political team helping Chancellor George Osborne try to deliver a progressive economic policy.