10th January, 2011, 8:30 am

Climate of hate: 8 in the morning – January 10th

Mark Ferguson

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* Paul Krugman on America’s climate of fear.

* Labour and the coalition will clash on unemployment today.

* Miliband will accuse the PM of youth jobs “betrayal”.

* Axing job funding risks creating a “lost generation”.

* Why vote Lib Dem? Jackie Ashley says that’s the question in Oldham.

* Polls point to comfortable Labour win in Oldham.

* Alan Johnson admits he doesn’t know NI rate…

* And 2011 will be a year of living frugally.

Mark Ferguson

Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.

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