George Osborne said it was the day Britain stepped back from the brink. But union leaders tell Channel 4 News the spending review will lead to “wholesale unemployment”.
Read his lips. We took the text of the Chancellor’s Spending Review and turned it into a Snowcloud. Run your cursor over a word and click to see how often, and where, it occurs.
Gary Gibbon
When reporters were briefed about changes to child benefit, the Treasury accidentally gave us the wrong figures for how many would lose out and by how much. The figures they gave us included data on the impact of bringing down the qualifying age for child benefit to 16. Oops.
The Chancellor George Osborne has won the backing of 35 top business leaders as he prepares to announce where the axe will fall in his comprehensive spending review on Wednesday.
Ed Miliband makes a “good debut” in his first appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions as Labour Leader, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
Channel 4 News blogs on David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference, the sale of Liverpool Football Club and a new Ted Hughes poem that gives insight into the death of Sylvia Plath.
As David Cameron prepares to tell the Conservative conference that spending measures will not be easy, an expert tells Channel 4 News why the prime minister’s speech must relate to ordinary people.
Join the debate as Prime Minister David Cameron delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference, where he is expected to defend child benefit changes.
David Cameron tells the Conservative conference: there is no alternative to big spending cuts and it takes two to cut the deficit.
As calls grow for the Government to re-think plans to axe child benefit for higher-rate tax payers, Channel 4 News speaks to one mum who describes the idea as insulting.
The Labour party says the Government’s policy on child benefits is “unravelling” after a top minister yesterday told Channel 4 News the plans might need revising.
Speaking to Jon Snow, David Cameron defends plans to cut child benefit for higher-rate tax payers, and insists that no one in his team is unsackable, including his communications chief, Andy Coulson.
Child benefit is being withdrawn from families who pay higher rate tax and there’s a whiff of ministerial rebellion in the air.
Gary Gibbon
Well the distant views of the sunlit uplands promised at this Conference probably don’t look so sunny for the higher rate taxpayers right now. And they will be pondering how their loss of Child Benefit in one drastic swoop through the breakfast interviews this morning by George Osborne could be but the beginning. This is…
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