What lies behind Clegg’s wealth tax
What’s Nick Clegg up to floating the idea of a temporary wealth tax of some kind? Political Editor Gary Gibbon investigates.
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Thousands of overseas students could be thrown out of Britain within 60 days after London Metropolitan Unversity was stripped of its right to authorise their visas.
There is political rhetoric – and then there are facts. Paul Ryan wowed delegates at the Republican National Convention – but his remarks have been slated for playing fast and loose with the truth.
What’s Nick Clegg up to floating the idea of a temporary wealth tax of some kind? Political Editor Gary Gibbon investigates.
Chancellor George Osborne knocks back a suggestion from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg that the country’s wealthiest should be contributing more to the UK’s fiscal turn-around.
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Existing health quangos Monitor and the Care Quality Commission, expanded under the Lansley reforms, have seen staff costs rise by £28m in the last year alone.
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Chancellor George Osborne’s deficit reduction programme comes under further pressure after an unexpected rise in government borrowing in July.
On the opening day of a new football season, a study finds that property prices near Premier League football clubs have increased faster than average over the past decade.
An easy way to drive a health secretary to apoplexy is to remind them of NHS satisfaction surveys, writes Victoria Macdoanld.
A town mayor nicknamed the “modern Robin Hood” is beginning a three-week march in support of anti-austerity campaigners. So who is Spain’s new cult hero?