Harman’s plan to force Murdoch to sell a newspaper – Media roundup: June 13th, 2013
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Senior London Tory calls for “Minimum Wage holiday”
A senior London Tory has called for a Minimum Wage “holiday” for small businesses. That’s despite the IFS…
Balls overtakes Osborne as “most capable Chancellor” in latest Ipsos-Mori poll
Update: The poll also continues the recent trend of small Labour leads with ICM – 4 points this…
Former Tory MP Andrew Pelling to stand as Labour council candidate
An interesting development in Croydon, where former Tory Croydon Central MP Andrew Pelling (who joined the Labour Party…
Boris takes an unsubtle swipe at Cameron (and his brother)
Boris Johnson took a not particularly subtle swipe at the PM yesterday. When asked why both Cameron and…
How the government are putting justice up for sale
Justice is up for sale: the Probation Service is being privatised, the likes of G4S are set to…
Are the Tories planning to veto money for UK foodbanks?
As we already know, the use of foodbanks has risen sharply in recent years, and yet the Tories…
One Death is Too Many
By Steve Murphy and Len McCluskey Construction workers are becoming increasingly worried about workplace safety and the public…
Labour calls for embattled Tory Tim Yeo to step down
Tory Select Committee Chair Tim Yeo has been sucked into the lobbying scandal over allegations that he “coached”…
Digital Government, rights and responsibilities
It is a terrible irony if, as the Government squabbled with itself over the contents of its mishandled…
