News Did Cameron break the ministerial code? PM reported to top civil servant David Cameron has been reported to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood for suspicion of breaking the ministerial code in… 12th November, 2015, 10:44 am
News It’s questionable whether Osborne has a mandate for the scale of cuts planned, says Burnham Andy Burnham has said that it’s “questionable” whether George Osborne has a mandate for the scale of cuts… 21st June, 2015, 6:17 pm
Comment Apologise for overspending? I’m afraid that’s only the start In the aftermath of our election defeat much of the post-mortem has centred why voters took such a… Kyalo Burt-Fulcher 19th June, 2015, 10:55 am
News Danny Alexander confirms the Tories really *do* have a “secret plan” to hit family budgets Yesterday Labour unveiled this poster: Today Danny Alexander -who will almost certainly lose his seat next week –… Mark Ferguson 30th April, 2015, 9:02 am
Comment There’s far more to socialism than fighting austerity There will be cuts. Fewer under Labour than the Tories or the LibDems. Prudently perhaps, all four main… Jon Wilson 24th April, 2015, 8:49 am
News SNP planning bigger spending cuts than Labour – and a cut to Scotland’s block grant, says IFS There’s some damning stuff for the SNP in the IFS reports on the various party manifestos. The faux-anti-austerity… 23rd April, 2015, 3:15 pm
News Miliband says Tories planning biggest cuts of any major economy – and that they would hurt the NHS Ed Miliband will today accuse David Cameron of a “grand deception” – promising the “good life” while at the same… 23rd April, 2015, 8:27 am
Video IFS chief warns of “enormous” scale of Tory cuts, with “almost no sense at all of how they’re going to do it” Yesterday the Tories were more than happy to draw attention to IFS analysis of Labour’s manifesto from Paul… 14th April, 2015, 1:42 pm
Video Another Tory car crash interview – Matt Hancock won’t say where welfare cuts will fall George Osborne had a car crash interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday – failing 18 times to answer… 13th April, 2015, 8:15 pm
News Tory PPCs don’t think impact of cuts, housing or inequality are important So this morning Ipsos-Mori did a pre-election briefing on what PPCs from different parties think. This image –… 10th April, 2015, 10:15 am