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The potential for coalition manoeuvring post-election continues to make headlines, featuring on the front pages of the Financial Times and Telegraph today. Also on the front page of the Telegraph … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"Under Labour, for years, 90 per cent of job growth was taken up by foreign workers. With the Conservatives, two-thirds of our job growth now benefits British citizens."—David Cameron in … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The latest figures on people in work are out today, with new data up to February 2015. Here's what we've learned so far. There are now over 31 million people … Read
Discussion continues on the economy today, following on from the briefing on the parties' spending plans published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday. The Conservatives are expected to … Read
Chancellor George Osborne was on the Today programme this morning and the Institute of Fiscal studies is briefing the media today on its analysis of the budget plans in each … Read
Health
Ed Miliband has announced that the next Labour government will invest "£150 million each year ... in new cancer diagnostic infrastructure". We wanted to find out how different governments approach … Read
The use of Trussell Trust food banks by an alleged one million people last year is covered by the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Mirror today. You can read … Read
Most of the papers today have covered the tragic deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean on their front pages. The prospect of the SNP being in coalition leads the political … Read
Today's major political story, judging by the newspapers' front pages, is a rather old one in two senses. First, we've known for some time that, according to the opinion polls, … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
England is going to have a projected 220,000 extra households per year between 2012 and 2022. The supply of new housing has fallen far short of that figure—119,000 homes were … Read
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