Spending cuts

David Cameron tries to relaunch his “Big Society” idea again – but can he escape the accusation it’s just a figleaf for cuts? Channel 4 News asks what does it all mean to you?

Critics have said the Big Society is a vague term voters won’t understand. So Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked people to tweet in what the Big Society meant to them. We list just some of the tweets here.

Ken Clarke has been warning the middle classes are unaware of the scale of spending cuts that will hit them this year, prompting calls from some Tory quarters for him to quit.

The High Court rules that Education Secretary Michael Gove was wrong to scrap parts of England’s school-building programme without consultation. His Department could now face compensation claims.

More than 80 Liberal Democrat councillors attack the Government over local spending cuts – but an expert tells Channel 4 News the cuts are not unreasonable.

Leisure centres, libraries, swimming pools and public toilets are set to close across Manchester as part of the city council’s bid to make savings of nearly £110m this financial year.

Government spending cuts are undermining the Big Society strategy and risk “destroying the volunteer army” needed to make it work, the head of Britain’s largest volunteering charity warns.

Exclusive: More than half of domestic violence services across the country do not know if they will be able to remain fully open after March due to funding cuts, Channel 4 News learns.

Cuts to the police budget outlined in the government’s spending review will mean 10,190 fewer police officers in England and Wales within two years, according to new research by the Labour party.

The Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, says young people are the victims of the Coalition Government’s deficit-cutting plan. Faisal Islam investigates.

Exclusive: A Liberal Democrat Minister is in hot water after telling her constituents to remove all the books out of her local library to prevent its closure, writes Cathy Newman.

Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity plan to Channel 4 News saying that abandoning the deficit reduction plan, would drag the country “back into the danger zone”.

Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity plan to Channel 4 News saying that abandoning the deficit reduction plan, would drag the country “back into the danger zone”.