The government’s much discussed benefits cap today rolls out across the UK, where no family will now receive more than £26,000 per years in benefits, with single people limited to £350 per week.
The Conservatives are to publish a draft bill for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, with a vote proposed to be held during the next parliament in 2017.
A recent poll has found that the majority of the British populations believes the Tories to be “mean” and Labour and the Liberal Democrats to be “dim”, in the latest display of popular disenchantment with the political establishment.
UKIP appear to be the big winners in the local elections as the results come in, having won 42 of the seats so far and averaging 26% of the vote according to early estimates.
David Cameron has vowed to win back voters after a disappointing turnout for the Conservatives that came third in the Eastleigh by-elections, with Liberal Democrat Mike Thornton winning the seat.