Difficulties facing Ed Miliband underlined after it emerged that less than a third of his new top team believed he was the best candidate for Labour leader... more
Ed Miliband stamped his authority on Labour’s economic policy today as he promoted Yvette Cooper and a clutch of women to top posts in his shadow cabinet... more
Public sector workers could be forced to pay more towards their pension funds, it was reported after the Government announced a review of the schemes
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Nearly 65,000 Britons living in European countries including Spain, Portugal and Greece are receiving state-funded winter fuel payments designed to help them cope with cold weather... more
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the postal strike (and I am sure there are rights and wrong on both sides), I've already given up on my post. I don't recall it ever being so inefficient in my lifetime. ... more
Britain's public debt went "off the Richter scale" as it was confirmed that the Government's bank bailouts had put the nation £1.5 trillion further into the red... more
Shadow chancellor George Osborne made an attempt to steal Labour's mantle as the "party of the poor" with a signal the Tories would cut taxes for the lowest paid... more
Fresh questions about the political future of Chancellor Alistair Darling surfaced after a senior Labour MP criticised the Treasury for lacking leadership... more
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