Apprentices to get 20 per cent pay rise but George Osborne misses minimum wage goal March 16, 2015 Apprentices will get a 20 per cent pay rise this October, after business secretary Vince Cable won his battle to overrule the Low Pay Commission’s (LPC) recommendation of a 2.6 per cent rise in the minimum wage. By contrast, chancellor George Osborne has failed to meet his aspiration to hike the headline minimum wage to [...]
General Election 2015: Ed Miliband stops short of ruling out post-electoral deal with SNP March 16, 2015 Labour leader Ed Miliband has declined to rule out doing a deal with the Scottish National party (SNP) to secure the keys to Downing Street. However, he said there would be no formal coalition between the two parties. Speaking yesterday, Miliband said: “Labour will not go into coalition government with the SNP. There will be [...]
Hull City chair Assem Allam wants to stop unions roaring with £1m donation to Labour March 16, 2015 Hull City chairman Assem Allam will donate up to £1m to the Labour party, after having dinner with former Prime Minister Tony Blair. However, it is believed that the businessman will only put up the cash if Ed Miliband is prepared to take on the trade unions. Allam has already donated £200,000 to Labour, [...]
General Election 2015: The Conservatives have outlived their usefulness – it’s time for a Southern Party March 15, 2015 I feel gloomy about the outcome of the General Election. If you could choose your enemy in politics, I presume David Cameron would pick Ed Miliband ahead of anybody else on the Labour benches with the possible exception of that portly prat Tom Watson. But I look at the issue from the other end [...]
General Election 2015: IOD slams Labour’s “obviously counterproductive” profit-sharing policy plans March 15, 2015 Potential Labour party plans to force companies to share profits with staff have been slammed by the Institute of Directors as “counterproductive” and a deterrent to investment. The policy to force firms with over 50 employees to set up profit-sharing schemes in the style of John Lewis is reportedly being considered by Ed Miliband in a bid [...]
General Election 2015: Farage opens the way for a deal with the Tories if Cameron agrees to an EU referendum in 2015 March 15, 2015 Ukip could offer to support a minority Conservative government on key policies like the budget – if David Cameron’s party agrees to stage a referendum on the UK’s EU membership by the end of 2015. The Telegraph is publishing extracts from Nigel Farage’s memoirs – entitled Purple Revolution – in which the Ukip leader rules [...]
General Election 2015: Tony Blair adds to Labour warchest to help Miliband fight the Unions March 15, 2015 Tony Blair has flung himself back into the political fray, after it was revealed he organised a deal to secure Labour up to £1m of funding if it gets on the wrong side of its Unite donors. Blair set up a dinner at his home last week, at which Hull football club’s chairman, Assem Allam, [...]
Live like Ed Miliband: UK homes for sale with two kitchens March 13, 2015 If we were ever in any doubt as to whether Ed Miliband was a man of the people, we now have solid proof: the Labour leader may have two kitchens, but he only uses the "small one", he has insisted. Either way, we're all keen on keeping up with the Milibands – so we've put [...]
London mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan: No Labour landslide in 2015 General Election March 13, 2015 The widely tipped London mayoral candidate and MP for Tooting has said Labour became "arrogant" in office and didn't "spot early enough the need for additional housing". Khan, a close ally of Ed Miliband has been put in charge of heading off the growing popularity of the Green Party that Labour sees as a threat [...]
Ed Miliband is bad for Britain’s economy, say 61 per cent of business leaders March 13, 2015 Ed Miliband has yet to shake off the impression that he and his party are anti-business spendthrifts who can't be trusted with the economy, according to polling from YouGov. The Labour party lagged significantly behind the Conservatives on every question YouGov asked business leaders. In terms of who would be best for shareholders, Labour scored [...]