Gary Gibbon
Tax credits and Cameron and Osborne’s different horizons
David Cameron has made much of how the Commons has passed the tax credit changes and the Lords were defying the elected chamber when they voted against them on Monday.
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Gary Gibbon
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Jon Snow
Chilcot Inquiry: a very British farce
Who amongst us will ever read all two million words of Chilcot’s collected prose? And even if we do, will guilt, innocence, madness, patriotism, or anything else be clear enough for anyone to discern.
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Factcheck Q&A: Kids Company
How much taxpayers money did the charity get, what did they do with it and how much did the Government know? Everything you need to know on Kids Company.
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Tax credits: Osborne says reforms will continue
Chancellor George Osborne says tax credit reforms will go ahead, despite the government’s dramatic defeat in the Lords on cuts for millions of low-income families.
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Cathy Newman
FGM is outlawed in Britain, so why are women at risk denied asylum?
This week a legal duty will come into force requiring teachers and doctors to report cases of FGM. Yet Britain is still refusing to give refuge to women who say they’re at risk of being mutilated.
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FactCheck Q&A: the tax credit crunch
The Lords are debating whether to scupper George Osborne’s latest change to tax credits. What’s it all about?
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China pays £6bn for nuclear power station stake
China agrees to invest £6bn for a 33.5 per cent stake of a nuclear power station to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Critics have complained that the project does not represent value for money.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron off the naughty step with China
Pro-Tibet demonstrators were massively out-numbered by a well-planned bussed-in deluge of pro-regime supporters from all over the country.
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First new grammar school for 50 years given go-ahead
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan approves a new 450-pupil selective school in Sevenoaks. Defence Minister and local MP Michael Fallon says he’s “thrilled”, but are grammar schools on the way back?
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FactCheck Q&A: Crime and punishment in Saudi Arabia
The justice training deal may be off, and there’s new hope for Karl Andree, the Brit sentenced to lashes in Saudi Arabia. What’s left of Britain’s relationship there?
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FactCheck: David Cameron’s conference speech
David Cameron makes his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference. Does he pass the FactCheck test?
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron tries to return to his liberal Conservatism mission
Long marchers from the 2005 Cameron leadership bid will hope it’s a return to his original programme of work, but he now faces divisive and headline-hogging battles.
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Boris Johnson: welfare reforms must protect low paid
London Mayor Boris Johnson challenges his Conservative leadership rival George Osborne to protect the low paid when his welfare reforms are introduced.
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Theresa May: high immigration bad for Britain
Home Secretary Theresa May tells the Conservative party conference that high levels of immigration make it “impossible to build a cohesive society”.
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Gary Gibbon
George ‘Power To The People’ Osborne?
The prime minister and the chancellor are joined at the hip in a programme to own the centre ground and to shift it to the right at the same time.
