Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled a plan to introduce a “national living wage” of £9 per hours by 2020 in the first Conservative budget in nearly 20 years.
New research on the attitudes of party members across the UK points to the challenge before David Cameron if he is to achieve a “yes” vote on the EU referendum without splitting his party badly.
The old joke goes “George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not a ‘how to’ manual, but that joke is increasingly less funny as the UK
Parliament has officially opened and the Queen’s speech has been delivered. The speech – written by prime minister David Cameron – outlined an ambitious policy agenda for the coming year.
A referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017 is among a number of new laws proposed in the Conservative’s Queen’s Speech.