Polly Toynbee and the Guardian have followed up on my Comment is Free on the non-doms yesterday with more comment today. Polly said: The revelation
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You shouldn’t be a non-dom and an MP
The Guardian reports: Zac Goldsmith, the prominent environmental campaigner and Tory parliamentary candidate, was tonight forced to deny opposition claims that he had "dodged" paying
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Who’s leaving now?
From the Observer today: [Ruper Everett] suddenly announces that if the Conservatives get in, he’ll definitely leave the country. "I’m not going to stay here
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Is that really the best the Tories can do?
I was on the Today programme this morning discussing the new Compass report on the need for a fairer tax system for the UK. You
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Cameron commits us to economic misery
Brown and Cameron clash over budget deficit | Business | guardian.co.uk . Brown offers Keynes – give or take – which is the only way
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The Tories keep finding new ways to spend
The FT has noticed the complete mess the Tories are in. Commenting in an editorial today they say: [T]he Conservatives, long considered the “nasty party”,
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What would a Tory Budget actually do?
What would a Tory Budget actually do? | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Adam Lent shows two things. First that what
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Cameron’s speech fails the poverty fact-check
Liberal Conspiracy ¬ª Cameron’s speech fails the poverty fact-check. Liberal Conspiracy shows that Cameron relied on some very dodgy facts to blame the government for
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Conservatives back Cayman
A sure sign of the Tories attitude to Cayman and other tax havens is revealed in news from Cayman yesterday: A Conservative government would immediately
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