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George Osborne gains marks for being the first front bench politician of either of the two main parties prepared to spell out the details on the cuts which will...
Read this entry »Articles written by Frank Field (Lab)
Time to Open Up
A new group, Open Up, is calling for all MPs to submit themselves to an open primary before the next election. This is the one move, the campaign...
Read this entry » Diana Elles (1921-2009)
Soon after I joined the Child Poverty Action Group in 1969 I began preparing our pre-budget report. When completed it went under the title The...
Read this entry » Time to Open Up
A new group, Open Up, is calling for all MPs to submit themselves to an open primary before the next election. This is the one move, the campaign...
Read this entry » Time to Open Up
A new group, Open Up, is calling for all MPs to submit themselves to an open primary before the next election. This is the one move, the campaign...
Read this entry » Expenses pile-up
How fair is my comparison of Sir Thomas Legg's imposition of a retrospective 5 year claw back on MPs' housing claims with a similar retrospective...
Read this entry » The justice of a roulette wheel
From honourable member to rogue. That, thanks to retrospective and unprecedented changes Sir Thomas Legg has made to the rules on MPs' expenses,...
Read this entry » To smoke or not to smoke
Smoking tobacco can kill. There is no question about that. What the House of Commons has to decide today is what further steps it will take...
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On whom the sun shines?
Labour last week understandably played down the loss of The Sun's endorsement. But an understandably laid back response shouldn't hide the seriousness of this...
Read this entry »David Layton and the Low Pay Unit
I cannot now remember when I first met David Layton. I was probably introduced to him by Philip Rowntree. What I can remember was from that first meeting,...
Read this entry »The latest and most dangerous economic heresy
This week's New Statesman gives full billing to the latest and most dangerous economic heresy. If only we could live in the world that Danny Blanchflower and...
Read this entry »We are all shamed
Is there not a link between the abuse Fiona Pilkington and her family suffered for more than a decade and Carol Hill, the dinner lady who spoke out to the parents...
Read this entry »Focus on outputs not inputs
One almost sympathises with the Prime Minister. No sooner had he started to promise cuts and cuts and cuts again than the difficulties the Government is going to...
Read this entry »Judgement of Solomon
It is a distraction whether or not the prime minister utters the c-word today - or any other day come to that. The plain fact is there will be mega cuts. Two crucial...
Read this entry »Single Vision: NHS Output
It is predictable but deeply depressing. Up goes the cry that any review of NHS expenditure MUST result in cuts to consumers.The debate on public expenditure cuts...
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