Buying out this single industry would cost more than a quarter of Labour’s unfunded ‘Transformation Fund’, according to Ofwat estimates.
Only eleven per cent put it in the top three categories for effectiveness. By contrast, 32 per cent placed it in the bottom three.
The Opposition’s revenue projections are at the mercy of a small, highly responsive group of taxpayers.
The manifesto makes collapsing devolution far less tempting for Sinn Fein and could give unionists the confidence and breathing space to reform.
The way in which the 0.7 per cent target is defined is out of date. Lack of money is not necessarily the primary cause of underdevelopment.
The cost of this scheme is five times that of Labour’s book-balancing exercise, yet apparently it’s going to be ‘leveraged’ from private investors.
What will count most on election day is not so much how many votes are cast for each party, but how those votes are distributed across all constituencies.
A studio audience and Jeremy Paxman quizzed both party leaders for Sky News and Channel Four.
If the SNP do drop below 40 per cent of the vote, as a new poll suggests, the Prime Minister will be quite able to go on saying “not yet”.
There is a radical, ambitious zeal evident throughout the document, and it is shown again in the desire to end iniquitous disparities between the generations.
The first part of a ConHome mini-series on the future of technical education after this general election.
The Scottish Conservative leader criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s “simplistic” attempt to blame British foreign policy for the Manchester attack.
He also says that the Conservatives have merely put “additional reassurance” into the social care policy are Labour “scaremongering”.
Whilst policy-wonks like to describe the differences in public spending on the old and young as an “injustice”, that’s not how thrifty pensioners see it.