Gary Gibbon
Lib Dem conference: should taxes rise, or fall?
The Lib Dem leadership position remains that the overall tax burden (in normal economic peacetime) is too high but given the doo-doo we’re in it might have to rise.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dem tax on mansions (and palaces) pleases activists
Although the Lib Dems have been lecturing everyone for years on the iniquities of property taxes, activists are pleased by the party’s new plan to tax those with expensive properties.
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Gary Gibbon
Teachers’ leader gives Balls 0 out of 10 for ‘savings’ plans
Schools Secretary Ed Balls won’t call his planned £2bn “savings” in education budget “cuts” as he is still holding out for real-terms growth in his budget.
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Gary Gibbon
How will Clegg avoid looking like a ‘hatchet-faced accountant’?
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg admits there is a problem with all three main party leaders looking like grim “hatchet faced accountants” at the next general election.
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Gary Gibbon
First party conference of the era of cuts
The first party conference of the era of cuts and the top story is, you guessed it, cuts. Nick Clegg promises to be “savage” about cuts and drops a heavy hint that the biggest internal cut will have to be the party’s commitment to the abolition of tuition fees.