Duncan Weldon from the TUC has, I note, already done the work of looking at the impact of the supposed new investment plans on previously announced intentions.
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The spending review was a sham. We all know that. It affects just one month of the current parliament. Whoever wins a May 2015 general election will have a budget by
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I received this email this afternoon: Thanks to everyone who came to the People’s Assembly last Saturday. Well over 4,000 people attended throughout the day.  It brought
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Law is the foundation of a state. And the principle that all are equal before the law is the foundation of democracy. The Guardian reports: The Ministry of Justice’s budget of £6.8bn in
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As the Guardian notes: Flood defences, protecting nature and fighting pollution appear to be the casualties after Osborne inflicted the highest level of budget cuts
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According to the Guardian: The security and intelligence agencies – MI5, MI6, and GCHQ – will benefit from a 3.4% increase in their combined annual
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According to the Guardian: HM Revenue and Customs’s resource budget will be cut by 5%, but extra resources will be provided to tackle tax evasion.
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Osborne is going to explain how he will find £11.5 billion of cuts today. He will pretend this will solve the problems within the so-called
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Caroline Lucas has a first rate letter ion the Guardian today, which I’ll reproduce in full since I saw it before publication: News that Ed Miliband will accept the government’s
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