The Conservative manifesto has has come under attack for its lack of costing analysis, but also more specifically for its attack on Britain’s OAPs with cuts to winter fuel allowance and the introduction of a so-called “dementia tax”.
Chancellor George Osborne will need to make cuts “on a colossal scale” to fulfil his plans he laid out in the Autumn Statement, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.
Criminal courts across England and Wales have been severely disrupted after barristers and solicitors staged a mass walkout in protest of government plans to slash legal aid fees.
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.
Chancellor George Osborne presented his Autumn Statement today, with a gloomy message of a shrinking economy, missed targets, and the need for austerity measures to continue to 2018.