Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
It wasn't Mohammed Asghar who was forced to look for a seat for Rhodri Morgan's last First Minister's Questions. It was me. For the first time ever, instead of empty benches in the public gallery there were people and lots of them. I'll cherish the moment. I eventually sat directly above the Presiding Officer. To his left I noticed a diagram, showing who sits where . So where did Mr...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of the banks' non-interest bearing current account deposits, caused great consternation on the Conservative benches. However, it was only equivalent to around a fifth of their profits in that 12 months. The following year the Treasury sought to share the benefit of high oil prices by imposing a special tax on North Sea oil and gas, which raised £2.4bn. Soon after New Labour...
The TaxPayers' Alliance (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
THE Prime Minister has launched the thrust of his election attack on David Cameron: that the Leader of the Conservative Party is a toff and therefore beyond the electorate’s pale. He thinks he is on to a winner with his...
Mike Ion (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
'Cameron's Conservatives: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich?' It is not impossible that Labour will deploy this as a potentially potent slogan as we get closer and closer to election day. The Tories were quite clearly rattled by Cameron's dismal performance at yesterday's PMQs and Brown clearly believes that both Osborne and Cameron are vulnerable to accusations of elitism...
