Here’s a photo of George Osborne being presented with a ready meal (spaghetti) – which he refuses to say whether he’d eat or not (our guess is no, regardless of any horse content) (via: @bbcpeterH):
He’s certainly no John Gummer, who famously fed his four year old daughter a beef burger at the height of the BSE scandal:
Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has reacted to warnings from Stefano Pessino, the chief executive of the company that owns Boots pharmacies, that a Labour Government would be a “catastrophe”. Umunna said he imagined people would draw their own conclusions from interventions by people who “who don’t live here, don’t pay tax in this country”. Pessino is worth an estimated £7.5 billion, and his company have been accused of using tax loopholes to avoid over a billion pounds worth of […]
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Stephen Crabb is a good pupil. By attacking Welsh education today (£) in a base attempt to secure votes in the General Election, he has shown a willingness to learn from his cabinet colleagues. It was the Prime Minister himself who, when talking about the NHS, uttered that shameful phrase about Offa’s Dyke being a line between life and death. Senior Welsh Tories, understandably, remain very uncomfortable with that language, and they have made a bad fist of defending it. […]
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Well no can say that they weren’t warned! LabourList has been a consistent Cassandra warning of the implications of the rushed and ill considered introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER) by the Electoral Commission. So congratulations to Ed Milliband for raising the alarm over the slump in the level of registration amongst students in halls of residence. Let’s hope the combined efforts of local councils, political parties and civic campaigns such as Bite the Ballot can restore as many of […]
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After a week featuring several critical interventions from Labour figures over plans for the NHS, the papers today see a couple of uncomfortable truths for David Cameron from close to home. The Observer reveals that Tory MP and ex-health minister Stephen Dorrell thinks that the NHS reforms have been the biggest mistake of the Coalition Government. They report: Asked if he regards the Health and Social Care Act of 2012, driven through the Commons by Andrew Lansley in the face […]
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The Mail on Sunday run with attacks on Ed Miliband today, including quotes from major Labour backer John Mills where he appears sceptical of a Mansion Tax and seems to side with Alan Milburn’s comments on the NHS this week. Mills, who has donated £1.5million to the Labour Party, has dismissed the story as “pure mischief making” and said they had used “highly selective and misleading quotes” for the story. The business leader admits he would prefer the widening of […]
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