“Pet projects” from Cameron and May years face axe “Boris Johnson has warned his cabinet that it is “time for the slaughtering of sacred cows” as he vowed to cull the pet projects of his predecessors Theresa May and David Cameron. Ministers were ordered yesterday to go through their spending line by line and send […]
Lord Dannatt urges the Prime Minister to recall Parliament “As the Prime Minister began his third holiday of the year, the former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, said ‘the nation would expect’ Parliament to be recalled. … Lord Dannatt, a former defence adviser to Mr Cameron, said the potential implications of the conflict – […]
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus all have lower infant mortality rates than we do
A good news day for Osborne? Wages set to outstrip prices “George Osborne on Tuesday welcomed a fall in inflation to 1.6 per cent, amid hopes at the Treasury that data to be published on Wednesday will show average earnings are finally rising more quickly than prices. … Consumer price inflation fell from 1.7 per […]
Budget 1) Cameron defends the £2,000-a-year childcare subsidies… “Getting more parents out to work with up to £2,000 a year in childcare subsidies for every child will be ‘good for the economy’, David Cameron said last night. … The Prime Minister said the scheme, details of which will be confirmed in today’s Budget, was not […]
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Saving the family is as desperate as saving Private Ryan. In twenty years time the graveyard may be silent but for tombstones – no one to reflect on whether the battle was worth it.
6.15pm Local Government: Council byelection result from yesterday 5.30pm WATCH: William Hague: Geneva peace talks are "the only hope in the near future" for a Syrian solution 2.30pm ToryDiary: No, the news about Patrick Mercer isn't good for Cameron – since it raises the issue of the right of recall 1.45pm ToryDiary: Should welfare be cut before […]
6pm MPsETC: Thatcher tributes: The chamber to watch today is the Lords, not the Commons 5.45pm WATCH: My friend, Margaret Thatcher – by Conor Burns MP 4.45pm MPsETC: Updated with extracts from Miliband's speech: David Cameron leads Parliamentary tributes to Thatcher: "She made the political weather" 4pm WATCH: David Cameron's tribute: "Extraordinary woman, extraordinary leader […]
6.15pm WATCH: The Lady's not for jumping 5.30pm WATCH: Thatcher Remembered: It's 1990 and Margaret Thatcher leaves Downing Street for the last time 4.15pm WATCH Thatcher Remembered: It's 1990 and Thatcher says "No! No! No!" 3pm LeftWatch: Hatred from the extreme Left is a perverse tribute to Margaret Thatcher 1pm WATCH: Thatcher Remembered: It's 1987 […]
11.30pm WATCH Thatcher Remembered: It's 1983 – and she does the double. The Conservatives are re-elected with a landslide majority of 144 10pm Thatcher's Legacy: What she meant for women. Jill Kirby on Comment says that being a woman was intrinsic to her rise, but also intrinsic to her fall. "Always immaculately coiffed, make-up carefully […]
9pm ToryDiary: Hilton. O’Shaughnessy. Peter Campbell. Tim Chatwin. All gone from Number 10. And now Rohan Silva is to leave. What does his move say about the mood in Downing Street? 7pm Alistair Burt MP on Comment: A significant moment, as the UN passes a Resolution to deliver an Arms Trade Treaty 6.15pm WATCH: George Osborne: […]
David Green: The Budget failed to end Coalition policies that obstruct economic growth. In particular, ‘green’ policies are forcing up the cost of electricity and endangering major industries including steel, ceramics and chemicals. Economic self-harm will not make any difference to global warming. UK emissions are less than 2% of the world total. Whether carbon […]
Looking back on last week, it sure was a significant one for the debate about tax. On Wednesday, we saw David Cameron attacking Labour for abolishing the 10p tax rate – a hint, perhaps, that this coalition government would restore it. But then, on Thursday, when Ed Miliband backed the reinstatement of the 10p tax rate himself, CCHQ suddenly […]
It isn’t women in general, or feminism in particular, that denigrates the domestic domain or the work of care