Francis Maude has today revealed how special advisers to government ministers have been abusing their position by commissioning civil servants to produce work explicitly for the purpose of attacking the Conservative Party. Click here to download some of the evidence he has uncovered through the use of Freedom of Information requests. Mr Maude has written […]
A survey of 700 voluntary sector staff by ThirdSector magazine found very strong support for Labour: Much of the voluntary sector has become so dependent upon government funding that it is hardly voluntary at all. In return for massive government funding charities have increasingly echoed government policy positions. There is also enormous recycling of staff […]
6.15pm update: Responding to the issues raised below, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, has told ConservativeHome: “We should of course work with free trades unions in developing countries, who represent some of the world’s poorest workers. But funding for this should be specifically targeted and earmarked, not given unrestrictedly to the […]
Yesterday Mr Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, criticised Chris Grayling's suggestion that householders may need more rights to protect themselves from intruders. It is not the first time Mr Starmer has distanced himself from Tory policy. He has also defended the Human Rights Act against Tory plans to replace it. Mr Starmer has […]
By Matt Sinclair of The TaxPayers' Alliance. Yesterday, LeftWatch followed up on its attack on the taxpayer-funded Family and Parenting Institute's intervention in the political debate over whether marriage should be recognised in the tax system. Ed West, at the Telegraph, has argued that taxpayer funded campaigning 'charities' should have their funding cut. The new […]
On LeftWatch's first day we highlighted the government connections of Katherine Rake, who attacked Tory family policy on Radio 4 yesterday and was presented to the nation without reference to those connections. Today's Daily Mail opened fire on Ms Rake in a typical all-guns-blazing-way. Over at The Telegraph Ed West comments on LeftWatch and calls […]
Although LeftWatch will look at the SNP, Greens, Liberal Democrats and other left-leaning movements we are most interested in the Labour Party. I suggest the following trends within Labour should be our focus… This is evident in, for example, the retirement of nearly all the leading Blairite MPs, Harriet Harman's equality agenda and Gordon Brown's […]
At 0853am this morning the Today programme interviewed Katherine Rake of the Family and Parenting Institute. She used her three minute twenty second slot to attack the Tory idea that marriage should be recognised by the tax system. She avoided a question about the evidence that shows marriage is much more stable than cohabitation and […]