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By Chris Ball The older you get, the more likely you are to vote. Add this to the demographic changes in society and you get a new 'grey factor' in election calculations. Four out of ten of the 632 seats (319) are likely to have 'grey'…

By Gloria de Piero The Don't Judge My Family campaign, launched this weekend in response to public outrage against Tory plans to reward marriage through the tax system, highlights the clear blue water between Labour's family friendly offer…

By Sunder Katwala / @NextLeft So we at last have the details of the proposed Conservative plan to send a signal by "recognising marriage" in the tax system. The means of doing so are to allow one partner, if a basic rate taxpayer, to use…

By Andrew Lomas There comes a time in the life of a school-child when "my dad is better than your dad" loses its lustre as a rhetorical device. Unfortunately, the level of debate coming from the Tories hasn't undergone a similar…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 38 Degrees has launched a timely new campaign today to help overcome the influence of powerful business interests, called National Insurance: Mind your own business. In response to the 68 businespeople who…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmtih1982 * The Tories are attempting to limit the damage of Chris Grayling's recorded view that B&Bs should be able to turn away gay couples. * Ed Balls said yesterday that George Osborne would have to put up VAT…

By Sebastian Michnowicz Apparently, the Conservative Party has changed; it is not the nasty party anymore. As it's now much-lampooned advertising slogan says, it'll "cut the deficit, not the NHS". Even its leaders have gone from openly…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 New polling by the national childcare charity Daycare Trust reveals that over two thirds (67%) of mothers would be less likely to vote for a party that cut child tax credits or childcare places. In the poll…

By Zoe Gannon Today's budget will almost certainly have achieved its aim. With measures like cracking down on tax avoidance (albeit not as much as we would have liked) and increasing child tax credits and winter fuel payments there are lots…

By Alexandra Kemp Even with the success of Labour's statutory Minimum Wage, many low-paid workers still struggle to fund the necessities of life. A new parallel politics of citizen action in the capital, London Citizens, has championed a…

By James Valentine The CBI today criticised Sir James Dyson's report on boosting business innovation "for being too narrowly focused." The Tories recently commissioned Dyson to produce a report about business and industrial innovation, and…