Gary Gibbon
Once a Blair-loving Tory and Lib Dem fan, Michael Gove is now a zealot for traditional teaching. Is he “doing the right thing” or trying to impose on everyone an education that worked for him?
The Lib Dems insist they are giving poorer children a better start with cash from the “pupil premium” – but is this really extra money?
Lib Dem Schools Minister David Laws says we are spending billions ‘more’ on poorer schoolchildren. But does the party’s flagship ‘pupil premium’ just plug other holes in the schools budget?
Gary Gibbon
Despite the removal of Justine Greening from the Department of Transport, a third runway at Heathrow in the next parliament looks unlikely.
Gary Gibbon
Leaks from a Parliamentary Committee could spell the end of any future place in the Government for David Laws, one of the surviving founding fathers of the coalition who still has allies in both the Lib Dems and the Tory party.
Gary Gibbon
Someone who helped with the orignal Cabinet Office guidance to civil servants on how to handle the coalition negotiations says the Treasury “advice” on pros and cons of £6bn cuts was within the spirit and letter of the rules. Some senior figures in the Labour team at the time strongly disagree.
Gary Gibbon
David Laws said the Lib Dems were given Treasury advice during coalition negotiations – something that would have overstepped the mark.
So there has been some carping about £6 billion being a small number, a pinprick against the savage swordsmanship that awaits us over the summer. Well the Communities part of the CLG Budget is being cut by £780m, yet it was only planned to be £4.4bn of current spending to start with. So that is…