Dan Jarvis faced off a bottle-wielding mugger who tried to take his wallet
One of Labour’s Shadow Justice team seems to have taken a practical approach to their brief – by…
Will the IFS criticise the way Tories measure living standards?
Yesterday during the Budget, George Osborne claimed that living standards are up from 2010 standards. Job done, he…
Labour attention turns as Alexander delivers ‘Lib Dem Budget’
Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury and George Osborne’s right hand man, will today…
New debates schedule: leaders face first grilling next week, but no Miliband v Cameron
A new schedule and format for the televised leaders’ debates is expected to be published later this morning…
The worst thing about the Budget? The tax cuts
My plan for this week’s column was “pick something you hate about the Budget and write about it.” Lamentably…
What do the Tories do now?
Was that it? That was the big game changing moment we had been so afraid (and the Tories…
Anyone worried about protecting the welfare state should concentrate on kicking out the Tories
As a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee I get to see up close the Government’s…
Likud’s victory is depressing – but Israel is a liberal and progressive country
Yesterday millions of Israelis voted in the country’s general election. It followed a closely fought campaign, covered by…
After today, it is still all to play for
Today has long been a day Labour supporters have been anxious about: the last Budget before the General…
Today’s Budget continues this Government’s abominable record on housing
Today’s budget saw a buoyant George Osborne paint a rosy picture of rising living standards and a recovering…
