Welfare changes are fair, says PM

bbc 01-FEB-12

'Chaos' warning over bonus veto

bbc 29-JAN-12

Row over £26k benefits cap as Lords demand exclusion for child benefit and ministers vow to fight back in Commons

dailymail 24-JAN-12

Benefit cap suffers Lords defeat

bbc 23-JAN-12

Ashdown will oppose benefits cap

bbc 22-JAN-12

Welfare reform plans face £1.6bn black hole after Lords reject measures to limit sickness benefits

dailymail 12-JAN-12

Free schools set for extra £600m

bbc 26-NOV-11

Nick Clegg: Tackling youth unemployment 'is the best way to spend public money'

telegraph 25-NOV-11

Eurozone crisis blamed as UK jobs market faces 'painful contraction'

guardian 14-NOV-11

Labour promises to cap tuition fees at £6,000

dailymail 25-SEP-11

Pickles 'fully supportive' of benefit reforms despite CLG letter

24dash 03-JUL-11

'Disability benefit changes could hit cancer patients'

24dash 09-MAR-11

Johnson's wife's affair with his bodyguard: Marital turmoil forced Shadow Chancellor to quit

dailymail 21-JAN-11

Miliband has steel, says Johnson

bbc 28-NOV-10

Miliband in 'people's party' call

bbc 27-NOV-10

CBI chief Richard Lambert warns against big bonuses in wake of spending cuts

telegraph 22-OCT-10

Coalition pledge to publish pay details of every civil servant paid over £58k dropped

telegraph 16-OCT-10

Bonfire of the quangos? It's more like a barbecue: Despite all the fanfare, just 29 will be completely abolished

dailymail 15-OCT-10

A distinctly old-school feel to a 'new generation'

independent 09-OCT-10

Ed Miliband to unveil new shadow cabinet

telegraph 08-OCT-10

Ed Miliband hails ‘new’ Labour generation

RTERadio 26-SEP-10

Lib Dem conference: Nick Clegg calls on his MPs to keep their faith in the coalition

dailymail 21-SEP-10

It's time for the rubber to hit the road... not for croquet at Dorneywood

dailymail 20-JUN-10

£2bn Labour projects axed

independent 18-JUN-10

Coalition axes projects worth £2bn

channel4news 17-JUN-10

QUENTIN LETTS: In edgy notes, George Osborne took a swipe at absent Gordon Brown

dailymail 15-JUN-10

Osborne reveals cuts strategy

thesun 08-JUN-10

Ed Balls urges EU immigration cap

independent 06-JUN-10

Live blog: Treasury spending cuts

channel4news 24-MAY-10

Message to new minister: ‘There’s no money – good luck!’

thetimes 18-MAY-10

Gordon Brown to resign: a very Labour coup

telegraph 11-MAY-10

Unelected prime ministers must call a poll within six months: New Cameron vow attacks Brown's legitimacy

dailymail 24-APR-10

General Election 2010: Tory marriage tax break pledge is an 'empty gesture', says Labour

telegraph 10-APR-10

Osborne: We'll cut Labour's National Insurance hike by slashing £6bn in waste from Whitehall

dailymail 29-MAR-10

Darling finally comes clean on cuts: Chancellor vows to slash spending more than Thatcher

dailymail 26-MAR-10

Mandelson denies tax rise plans

bbc 19-MAR-10

Budget 'is critical to election'

belfasttelegraph 14-MAR-10

Osborne: Debt is No1 threat

thesun 25-FEB-10

George Osborne warns economic sovereignty lost unless debt tackled this year

telegraph 24-FEB-10

Legg's list P-U: What MPs have been asked to repay

dailymail 04-FEB-10

More job losses and bigger cuts to come, says Labour

dailymail 02-FEB-10

Tories are in 'disarray' on spending cuts, says Mandelson

dailymail 01-FEB-10

Britain is in danger of being an irresponsible society, says Cameron

thetimes 22-JAN-10

MPs expenses: Quentin Davies' claims for a bell tower

telegraph 11-DEC-09

MPs milked expenses system for £10 million in months before reforms

telegraph 10-DEC-09

Darling raises national insurance

ft 09-DEC-09

Top salaries must be cut - Harman

bbc 15-NOV-09

Fresh talks to end postal strike

bbc 26-OCT-09

Royal Mail head hopeful postal strike can be averted

telegraph 25-OCT-09

DUP MPs to repay £14k in expenses

bbc 14-OCT-09

Cameron promises brighter future

euronews 09-OCT-09

What should David Cameron say?

bbc 08-OCT-09

Tories - one-year pay freeze for public sector workers

24dash 06-OCT-09

Darling announce biggest public sector pay freeze for top earners in 30 years

dailymail 06-OCT-09

Cameron announces programme to tackle 'jobs crisis'

24dash 05-OCT-09

Darling freezes pay for top earners

channel4news 05-OCT-09

'Brown's a dead man walking': Labour MP's damning verdict as PM faces biggest test of his career

dailymail 28-SEP-09

George Osborne accuses Labour of hiding £14bn tax 'bombshell'

telegraph 20-SEP-09

Cameron vows to slash Westminster pay, perks, costs - and MPs

24dash 08-SEP-09

Guess who's coming to dinner? PM's guest list is revealed

bbc 17-JUL-09

Conservatives review each quango to see if it can be abolished

telegraph 06-JUL-09

Britons could pay £12000 'inheritance levy' in return for free elderly care

telegraph 14-JUN-09

Brown defiant over leadership

bbc 08-JUN-09

Pressure on Brown intensifies

bbc 07-JUN-09

We fight on, insists Gordon Brown after day of political blows

thetimes 06-JUN-09

RUGBY UNION: Cheetahs 24 British and Irish Lions 26

dailymail 06-JUN-09

It's now time for a new Cabinet

thesun 06-JUN-09

Under-pressure British PM reshuffles Cabinet

cnn 05-JUN-09

What now for Labour?

bbc 04-JUN-09

LDV on the brink as Weststar deal 'collapses'

telegraph 02-JUN-09

Gurkhas in Britain: a timeline of their campaign to stay

telegraph 21-MAY-09

MPs vote to reform expenses

bbc 01-MAY-09

Labour general secretary Ray Collins denies involvement in Tory smear website

telegraph 19-APR-09

Alas Smith ... Johnson could replace you

thesun 18-APR-09

Calls for inquiry into email smear scandal

telegraph 13-APR-09

Tories demand smear apology

thesun 12-APR-09

Call for rethink on top civil servants

ft 05-MAR-09

Teachers will be offered £10,000 'golden handcuffs' to stay at toughest secondary schools

dailymail 13-JAN-09

Church row as leading Bishops attack Labour's 'morally corrupt' credit crunch policies

dailymail 28-DEC-08

100,000 pensions face pay cut after blunder

thetimes 16-DEC-08

So what exactly DID Jacqui Smith know about arrested Tory MP Damian Green?

dailymail 01-DEC-08

PreBudget report: Gordon Brown takes £16billion gamble to kick start economy

telegraph 23-NOV-08

Tories cling to poll lead

channel4news 23-NOV-08

France sparks diplomatic row after cancelling flight deporting England-bound illegal immigrants

dailymail 18-NOV-08

British taxpayers to foot the bill to send home illegal immigrants who have never even been to UK

dailymail 16-NOV-08

Class divide in in decline report says

telegraph 04-NOV-08

British Day idea 'is still alive'

bbc 27-OCT-08

Peter Mandelson Tony Blair told me to accept Gordon Brown's Cabinet offer

telegraph 05-OCT-08

Mandy will make Gov 'stronger'

thesun 04-OCT-08

Peter Mandelson's Cabinet return in Gordon Brown reshuffle stuns Westminster

telegraph 03-OCT-08

Reshuffle talk dampened by No 10

bbc 02-OCT-08

Brown promises stability in a turbulent world

ft 25-SEP-08

Brown makes party conference speech

euronews 24-SEP-08

Knock it back — you’re drinking for Britain

thetimes 14-SEP-08

MPs and peers call for cuts in immigration

24dash 08-SEP-08

Migration from Eastern Europe falls to new low

24dash 21-AUG-08

New ‘bank balance’ requirement for overseas students

Hindu 17-AUG-08

Britain tightens visa rules for foreign students

Hindu 30-JUL-08

Visa curbs on foreign brides and bridegrooms to tackle forced marriages

sundaytimes 24-JUL-08

Bail plan for illegal immigrants

bbc 14-JUL-08

Killers among 2,400 deported foreign criminals

YorkshirePost 01-JUL-08

Police cordon at detention centre

bbc 19-JUN-08

August bank holiday should be renamed 'Britishness Day', says minister

dailymail 03-JUN-08

Ministers back cut in abortion time limit

sundaytimes 18-MAY-08

Footballers offside in new immigration system (AFP)

news 07-MAY-08

Immigration plans unveiled

thesun 06-MAY-08

Labour regroups after poll defeat

channel4news 06-MAY-08

Illegal workers prosecutions rise

bbc 05-MAY-08

Brown back to battle after election mauling

euronews 04-MAY-08

Everywhere touched by immigration

dailyexpress 01-MAY-08

UK to introduce face scans at airports

thepeninsulaqatar 26-APR-08

Airports trial facial recognition

bbc 25-APR-08

Darling's darlings defy Downing Street over decision to axe 10p tax rate

dailymail 20-APR-08

Buy-to-let boom puts borrowers at risk

ft 18-APR-08

Mayor rivals in migrant amnesty

bbc 09-APR-08

High Court judge blocks move to throw out 'elite' migrant workers

dailymail 09-APR-08

Row as Lords committee backs cap on immigration

guardian 01-APR-08

The care homes staffed by illegal immigrants, revealed in leaked Home Office report

dailymail 31-MAR-08

Care homes 'employing illegal immigrants'

guardian 30-MAR-08

Illegal immigrants vanish after being given rail tickets and told to 'make their way to detention centre'

dailymail 10-MAR-08

Immigration rule change 'biggest for a generation' as foreign workers forced to prove worth

dailymail 29-FEB-08

Benefits bill soars as Brown fails to eject asylum cheats

dailyexpress 27-FEB-08

Smith outlines citizenship rules for immigrants

guardian 20-FEB-08

Curry houses feel the heat as East European immigrants squeeze out Bangladeshis

dailymail 13-FEB-08

Purnell heads reshuffle changes

bbc 24-JAN-08

Footballer is saved from threat of deportation

guardian 15-JAN-08

Briton jailed over US visa scam

bbc 20-DEC-07

Major Changes Proposed for UK Visa Regulations

jis 19-DEC-07

Bangura chance to beat deportation

cnn 19-DEC-07

Government defends immigrant visitor 'bond' plan

guardian 18-DEC-07

VISAS

bbc 18-DEC-07

One in five babies born to a foreign mother as the population booms

dailymail 12-DEC-07

Midlands: Birmingham nervous for big businesses

ft 09-DEC-07

English tests 'to help migrant wives integrate into British way of life'

thetimes 05-DEC-07

Lost disc fiasco could scupper ID card scheme

dailymail 27-NOV-07

Data on 15m benefits claims 'lost by Customs'

telegraph 20-NOV-07

Emigration hits record high of 400,000

guardian 16-NOV-07

Smith to brief MPs on illegal workers

guardian 13-NOV-07

Home Office minister fined for using his mobile while driving

thetimes 03-NOV-07

Minister used phone while driving

bbc 02-NOV-07

Phillips announces housing inquiry

guardian 02-NOV-07

Undercounted and over here

economist 01-NOV-07

Government apologises over immigrant figures

telegraph 30-OCT-07

Cameron focuses on immigration and population

ft 29-OCT-07

'Blue card' will bring extra 20m Asian and African workers to EU in next 20 years

dailymail 23-OCT-07

Scots to axe prescriptions - leaving England to pick up the bill

dailymail 22-OCT-07

School fees paid for returning asylum seekers

telegraph 20-OCT-07

Brown 'dishonest' over EU vote, says Labour MP

telegraph 15-OCT-07

Blairite ministers turn on Brown as poll reveals Tory lead over Labour

dailymail 14-OCT-07

Asylum seekers could receive backdoor amnesty because of Home Office turmoil

dailymail 14-OCT-07

Immigration rate to rise in Britain

peopledaily 29-SEP-07

Police chief warns of migrant impact

telegraph 19-SEP-07

Brown plans unified border force in fight against terror

ft 26-JUL-07

Study shows immigrant amnesty could bring £1bn in tax revenues

TheScotsman 16-JUL-07

Call for immigrant amnesty in UK

bbc 15-JUL-07

Weeks of careful planning and a good breakfast - the making of Gordon Brown's perfect week

guardian 30-JUN-07

Brown's cabinet tackles constitution

guardian 29-JUN-07

The road to No 10

guardian 27-JUN-07

Tory defection gives Brown first blood

guardian 27-JUN-07

Gurkha's visa victory

dailyexpress 02-JUN-07

UK gov mulls prison for those employing illegal immigrants

register 15-MAY-07

Councils attack migration figures

bbc 14-MAY-07

Miliband: I will vote for Brown

thesun 23-APR-07

Government to launch points-based immigration system

guardian 18-APR-07

Reid tightens up UK visa rules

guardian 28-MAR-07

22 arrested in passport fraud raids

independent 22-MAR-07

Deportation target missed

thesun 27-FEB-07

Loophole warning over expulsion moves

YorkshirePost 27-JAN-07

BORDERS

bbc 26-JAN-07

Tories want UK to sign charter for victims of trafficking

guardian 04-JAN-07

You are a Cheeky boy

thesun 21-DEC-06

Foreigners living in Britain face compulsory biometric ID cards

guardian 20-DEC-06

ID card plan sparks fears over data security

guardian 19-DEC-06

[-said]: The single largest benefit received by those set to be affected by the cap is housing benefit – that varies locally and so should a benefit cap,

guardian 01-FEB-12

[-told]: This is a bank that the government owns almost all of, the government is the biggest shareholder. Mr Cameron has been talking about how shareholders need to flex their muscles and have a bigger say in the way that executive pay is set,

ibtimes 29-JAN-12

[said:]: Well, under these circumstances, yes I believe that would be appropriate.

guardian 29-JAN-12

[-writes]: Under the government's proposals, there is a very real risk that 20,000 people will be made homeless, and that this bill will fall on council tax payers,

guardian 29-JAN-12

[ said]: The government's welfare-to-work programs are now clearly failing and the welfare bill is going through the roof,

javno 19-JAN-12

[ said]: They are rolling that ball to get the hell out of there,

javno 19-JAN-12

[ explained]: Why we are interested in the dung beetle is that it is not using navigation for homing but rather for going,

javno 19-JAN-12

[said:]: They shouldn’t be using privilege to steamroll outrageous ideas through Parliament. They should be putting these proposals in the bin,

themirror 13-JAN-12

[said:]: The Government has been defeated because quite simply they tried to cross the basic line of British decency.

ananova 12-JAN-12

[said:]: The Government has been defeated tonight because quite simply they tried to cross the basic line of British decency.

belfasttelegraph 11-JAN-12

[wrote:]: For him, ‘idleness’ was an evil every bit as insidious as disease or squalor.

icWales 10-JAN-12

[said:]: The IFS, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and now Alan Milburn, who was personally chosen by David Cameron to give impartial advice, have all confirmed that this Government is undoing a decade of progress on child poverty.

independent 14-DEC-11

[said:]: We don't have to look too far to see the root cause of this unalloyed misery for families 11 days before Christmas.

themirror 14-DEC-11

[said:]: there's no more money left- ; sorry

guardian 29-NOV-11

[said:]: It is a national tragedy that this Government left young people desperate for work on their own with no real help for 18 months. The Tories killed [Labour's] future jobs fund and young people have paid a brutal price for this, with youth unemployment hitting a million and long-term youth unemployment up 83 per cent this year.

independent 25-NOV-11

[said:]: The brutal price our young people are paying for this Government’s economic policy is now crystal clear. The verdict is in – this Government is failing an entire generation.

icWales 21-NOV-11

[ said]: The brutal price our young people are paying for this government's economic policy is now crystal clear. The verdict is in: this government is failing an entire generation,

montrealgazette 16-NOV-11

[said:]: Unemployment started rising again well before the current eurozone crisis.

icWales 15-NOV-11

[said:]: The government's economic policies – spending cuts and tax rises that go too far, too fast – have choked off growth and led to record levels of unemployment, with youth unemployment soaring.

guardian 14-NOV-11

[-said]: Unemployment started rising again well before the current eurozone crisis,

guardian 14-NOV-11

[said:]: Labour introduced tough welfare reforms in government, and we've said that the system should encourage responsibility at the top and the bottom.

bbc 29-OCT-11

[ explained]: We had apologised before,

independent 02-OCT-11

[promised:]: If you cannot work, we will look after you,

guardian 28-SEP-11

[says:]: We need to build a society without fear

guardian 28-SEP-11

[-asked]: On average how much are people giving?

guardian 27-SEP-11

[-said]: And you're not on people's side if your idea of responsibility means firing 12,000 police officers, putting charities out of business and singling out as the people who need a tax cut the bankers who got us into this mess in the first place.

guardian 25-SEP-11

[ said]: Today we have the clearest and starkest evidence yet that the government’s plan for growth is hurting not helping Britain,

dailytimesPK 15-SEP-11

[said:]: This is a day of misery on Britain's jobs front. 'Today we have the clearest and starkest evidence yet that the Government's plan for growth is hurting, not helping, Britain. Our unemployment is now climbing faster than the eurozone, Japan and America and we are now losing three times more jobs than we are creating.

dailymail 15-SEP-11

[said:]: Childcare cuts have already forced 30,000 women to give up jobs.

thesun 07-SEP-11

[saying:]: Right now, the problem we have got in Britain is that people do not feel they get back from the welfare state what they put in. They feel if we stopped rewarding people behaving irresponsibly, there would be more money to help those who are responsible and doing the right thing.

guardian 27-JUL-11

[said yesterday:]: We want answers from Iain Duncan Smith in the House of Commons about why his department hid official Government evidence that his policy would make 40,000 families homeless.

24dash 04-JUL-11

[said yesterday:]: We want answers from <name id=

irishsun 04-JUL-11

[-said]: I do not deny that the benefit cap may result in individual cases of housing mobility [ie, people having to move], but I do not believe that the measure will exacerbate [the problem].

guardian 03-JUL-11

[said:]: We want answers from Iain Duncan Smith tomorrow (Monday) in the House of Commons about why his department hid official Government evidence that his policy would make 40,000 families homeless.

belfasttelegraph 03-JUL-11

[said:]: We were assured by ministers that costs wouldn't rise.

channel4news 03-JUL-11

[said:]: The public like our members expect us to learn from our past, and not live in it.

independent 23-JUN-11

[-said]: an exercise in gratuitous masochism

independent 23-JUN-11

[ says]: learn from the past but not live in it

irishsun 23-JUN-11

[-says]: It was an incredible eight years before Kinnock embarked on a major exercise of his own – talking to the public about the way they saw things. This is not a mistake we are going to repeat,

guardian 22-JUN-11

[-says]: While this was true of the Tories after 1997, Labour after 1979 was not much better. It was an incredible eight years before [Neil] Kinnock embarked on a major exercise of his own – talking to the public about the way they saw things. This is not a mistake we are going to repeat,

guardian 22-JUN-11

[added:]: Women in their late 50s will have earned less over their lifetime, they have lower state pensions and private savings than men, many of them are unable to join a workplace pension and have interrupted careers to look after their family, many will have stood down from jobs on the understanding they would get that state pension early.

icWales 21-JUN-11

[said:]: I think a couple of years into any leadership of the Opposition you need a pretty clear sense of what's what for the Party.

thesun 14-JUN-11

[said:]: We support the principles of the Work Programme, which builds on Labour's reforms. But there's a real worry now that the Tory-led government is not putting enough fuel in the tank.

channel4news 10-JUN-11

[said:]: This is yet more evidence for why we urgently need a plan for jobs in Britain. Next month sees £1.4bn of cuts in government help for family budgets.

guardian 16-MAR-11

[-said]: We are working to get growth and a sustainable recovery in all sectors of our economy, and the latest indicators show that a welcome rebalancing towards manufacturing and exports has begun.

guardian 16-MAR-11

[said:]: The Welfare Reform Bill is a ramshackle reform. It offers some good ideas but with a frightening leap in the dark for millions of parents, savers and self-employed who may lose thousands of pounds a year for childcare and wage top-ups, and a game of Russian roulette for some of the most vulnerable in our society.

24dash 09-MAR-11

[said:]: With five people chasing every job, it's obvious that welfare-to-work won't work without more jobs.

thesun 18-FEB-11

[said:]: We'll support the Government where it builds on our big reforms to sort out sickness benefits and get people who can work into work.

24dash 17-FEB-11