The Justice Secretary sets out to correct his predecessor’s mistake – and bolster the 2015 campaign.
The Justice Secretary was talking to Five Live’s John Pienaar.
The unemployment rate has fallen from 8.3% to 8.1% over the last three months (BBC).
Background report:
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. The Coalition may get its welfare bill passed but it may do so at a cost to its relations with the House of Lords. The Upper House repeatedly amended the welfare bill – sometimes by large majorities. Labour, crossbench and Lib Dem rebels defeated, for example, the benefits cap […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions with responsibility for Employment, Chris Grayling, was responsible for answering an Opposition day debate on unemployment yesterday afternoon. Labour Members, both from the frontbench, and through the Shadow Minister, Liam Byrne, issued a number of attacks on the […]
Chris Grayling is the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice The Conservative Party is the party of law and order, or it is nothing at all. The public have always known that Conservatives will take their protection most seriously, and that belief should never be allowed to wither. But we are no longer […]