That hoary old Hung Parliament chestnut
There’s an interesting article by The Independent’s Steve Richards today, focusing – as the media does every three months or so – on the prospect of a ‘Hung Parliament’, and what the Lib Dems would do...
View ArticleSince when is something debated in public, in front of journalists called...
Since yesterday, in fact. Because in an otherwise thoughtful piece on hung Parliaments in The Independent, Steve Richards made this comment: If there is a hung parliament there will almost certainly be...
View Article5 reasons Nick Clegg should rule out a coalition now
With most polls showing the next election could result in a hung parliament, there has been various speculation about what the Lib Dem position would be. I think it’s time for Nick Clegg to make an...
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Tom Baldwin and the “triple lock”: you could have read it here Tom
Today Tom Baldwin in The Times reports on its exciting persistent investigative journalism into the party’s “triple lock” rule for deals with other parties: The exact wording of this rule, disclosed...
View ArticleThe party strategy debate: rolling highlights
Note: If you’re catching up with this post after it was published, read it from the bottom up. Final result – both amendment and motion passed overwhelmingly. The overall tenor of the debate was more...
View ArticleIan Swales MP writes: 12 CUTS Labour don’t talk about
The Labour party think they can win the economic argument by just wailing about cuts on behalf of their public sector union paymasters. They give no credible alternatives for what they would do about...
View ArticleWell done, Ed Balls. He’s opened up space for a proper welfare debate. Lib...
Ed Balls has done us all a favour. His announcement last week that if he were Chancellor he would put a stop to winter fuel allowances for well-off pensioners means Labour has joined the Lib Dems in...
View ArticlePensions, the triple lock and Scottish independence
Steve Webb has come under a bit of fire for comments that his triple lock, which guarantees a state pension rise by the higher of earnings, inflation or 2.5% can’t be guaranteed after the election....
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Interview: Nick Clegg on the economy, welfare, Cleggism and the “superb” Kung...
We brought you a taste of the Voice’s exclusive interview with the deputy prime minister yesterday. Here is the full interview, covering the economy, welfare reform, pensions, Cleggism, our approach to...
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Steve Webb writes… Lib Dems will write the pensions ‘triple lock’ guarantee...
For decades, successive Labour and Conservative governments allowed the state pension to decline after Margaret Thatcher broke the ‘earnings link’ in 1980. The nadir of this was in the Labour years,...
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Opinion: Why it is wrong to enshrine the “triple lock” in law
One of the now regular flow of “policy announcements” from the leadership calls for the 2010 ‘triple lock’ to be enshrined in law. Passing for a moment over the fact that these “announcements” are of...
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Tories try to take credit for Lib Dem Steve Webb’s Pensions Triple Lock
View image | gettyimages.com As the election campaign hots up, all the parties are emailing those who have signed up to their email lists on all sorts of issues. In the past few days, we’ve seen one...
View ArticleThat hoary old Hung Parliament chestnut
There’s an interesting article by The Independent’s Steve Richards today, focusing – as the media does every three months or so – on the prospect of a ‘Hung Parliament’, and what the Lib Dems would do...
View ArticleSince when is something debated in public, in front of journalists called...
Since yesterday, in fact. Because in an otherwise thoughtful piece on hung Parliaments in The Independent, Steve Richards made this comment: If there is a hung parliament there will almost certainly be...
View Article5 reasons Nick Clegg should rule out a coalition now
With most polls showing the next election could result in a hung parliament, there has been various speculation about what the Lib Dem position would be. I think it’s time for Nick Clegg to make an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tom Baldwin and the “triple lock”: you could have read it here Tom
Today Tom Baldwin in The Times reports on its exciting persistent investigative journalism into the party’s “triple lock” rule for deals with other parties: The exact wording of this rule, disclosed...
View ArticleThe party strategy debate: rolling highlights
Note: If you’re catching up with this post after it was published, read it from the bottom up. Final result – both amendment and motion passed overwhelmingly. The overall tenor of the debate was more...
View ArticleIan Swales MP writes: 12 CUTS Labour don’t talk about
The Labour party think they can win the economic argument by just wailing about cuts on behalf of their public sector union paymasters. They give no credible alternatives for what they would do about...
View ArticleWell done, Ed Balls. He’s opened up space for a proper welfare debate. Lib...
Ed Balls has done us all a favour. His announcement last week that if he were Chancellor he would put a stop to winter fuel allowances for well-off pensioners means Labour has joined the Lib Dems in...
View ArticlePensions, the triple lock and Scottish independence
Steve Webb has come under a bit of fire for comments that his triple lock, which guarantees a state pension rise by the higher of earnings, inflation or 2.5% can’t be guaranteed after the election....
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