As the election looms, the papers are shifting back to their political comfort zones. But the consensus is that Osborne has drawn some of the sting from Miliband’s attack.
Today’s papers demonstrate how the Conservative press pack has shifted into campaign mode and marked their target: Labour.
Rob Ford predicts that, although she can’t offer many direct challenges, Natalie Bennett can still make life difficult for Miliband.
Plus: Farage knifes Hamilton. Hopeless Miliband. Useless Clegg. Truth from Phibbs. Katz among the pigeons. And: I’m forever, forever, forever blowing bubbles.
Also: Miliband plays with Farage and plays with fire. The unGreen BBC. Jonathan Jones is a twat. Two new Biteback books. Plus: Guido’s Iranian payments to friends of Israel.
My home area’s furious response to left-wing slander shows the red rosettes are flimsier than they might seem.
“An irresponsible and foolish article…So much of it was wrong…A dreadful, lazy comparison…It violates the region.”
The left-wing campaign group has denied Labour the initiative on a host of issues.
The Opposition’s foreign policy positions are an unsettling mix of opportunism and accident.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
The Reigate MP speaks to ConservativeHome about seeing off an attempt to deselect him.
The £175,000 BBC study that found bias. The newspaper readership of BBC employees. And the study by the Centre for Policy Studies.
It seems he thinks bashing tax avoiders should be a tax-exempt activity.
Despite all the myths that have built up around it, the first person to coin the phrase ‘Thatcherism’ on the record was most likely the Lady herself.