Posts under ‘Anna Rutter’

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Ministers have given approval for the building of four eco-towns and have insisted that at least 10,000 homes will be in place by 2016.  Housing Minister, John Healey has approved sites in Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Cornwall and Hampshire in the face of fierce local protests, with chosen developers able to bid for part of a £60 [...]

Conservative MP, Brian Binley has risked becoming persona non grata number one by daring to suggest that Conservative Party members who voted UKIP in last Thursday’s elections should be forgiven.
 
Following the expulsion of Lord Kalms for lending his vote to the Euro-sceptic party, Binley argued that the Conservatives had either better get used to ‘good [...]

David Cameron has today accused the beleaguered Prime Minister of seeking to secure changes to the electoral system for fear he will lose the next general election.
 
In a particularly vitriolic PMQs, the first since last weeks local and European election results which proved shambolic for the governing party, Cameron poured scorn on the possibility of [...]

Andrew Lansley, the longest serving Shadow Secretary in Big Dave’s cabinet, has today slammed former postie and arch-moderniser, Alan Johnson as a roadblock to NHS reform.
 
During a thirty minute speech to the Royal Arts Society, chaired by ex New Labour advisor Matthew Taylor, Mr Lansley accused Johnson of dancing around the big health issues rather [...]

New figures released by the Electoral Commission today show that donations to the Labour party have dropped to the party’s second lowest level since 2001.
 
Labour received donations amounting to just under £3 million in the first quarter of the year. The Conservatives received more than £4 million in the same period, while the Liberal Democrats took [...]

The Conservatives’ successful small businessman, Brian Binley, came under fire from an enraged Anne Moffat yesterday during the Business and Enterprise Committee by indulging in self promotion.
 
Mr Binley took great pains to inform the witness, Minister for Competitiveness, Baroness Vadera, of his small business credentials before accusing the peer of ‘living in a different universe’ to [...]

The man of the moment, Alistair Darling, stepped up to the dispatch box this lunchtime to deliver his Gloom and Doom Budget in a blue shirt and blue stripy tie ensemble.
 
Despite the current Labour mud slinging, blue apparently symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith and truth.
 
Does the Chancellor know something we don’t? Is GDP suddenly [...]

Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman and ballroom dancer extraordinaire, continued to deliver his sage advice for a faltering Government and doom-mongering Opposition today at his annual pre-Budget press briefing.
 
Dr Cable, seemingly the sole winner of the current economic downturn, slammed both parties for becoming tied up in nothing more than an economic growth forecasting [...]

Early this morning the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, hinted that he would privatise Northern Rock as an independent bank rather than flogging it to another buyer.
 
Addressing the Royal Society of Arts, Osborne argued that Prime Minister Brown should think carefully before simply selling off Government shares to the highest bidder, and should think through the consequences for the [...]

The ugly issue of MP expenses was raised yet again at PMQs today before Brown drew applause on the G20.
Cameron attempted in vain to pin the Prime Minister down to a meeting to discuss immediate reform to the expenses system. Responding to jeers from the Labour side of the House, the Leader of the Opposition [...]