Nick Clegg's "tooth and nail" fight with the Tories
Nick Clegg ushered in a new stage of divisive coalition politics after he denounced Tory “dogma” and reeled off a list of policies he had successfully forestalled yesterday, the Guardian reports. In a dramatic upping of his campaign to differentiate his party from the Tories, the deputy prime minister told the Lib Dem conference how he fights “tooth and nail” in an “endless battle” with his coalition partners.
Rouhani vows never to develop nuclear weapons
Iran’s new president’s stepped up his diplomatic game yesterday, the FT (£) reports. Rouhani told a US television network that Iran had no intention of developing nuclear weapons and insisted that he had the go ahead to strike a diplomatic deal over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The interview, the first with western media since his appointment, followed the release of 11 of Iran's most prominent political prisoners from jail yesterday.
Bedroom Tax: 50,000 face eviction
David Cameron faces renewed pressure to scrap the so-called Bedroom Tax after damning research showed that more than 50,000 tenants have fallen into arrears and face eviction since it was introduced in April, the Independent reports.
Independent Scotland faces 15% public spending cut
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has reported that an independent Scotland would be forced to cut public spending by 15 percent in the first two years of its life if it wanted to match the UK’s deficit reduction programme, Bloomberg reports. The alternative would be a tax rise or benefit cut. Even if oil revenues were “substantially stronger” than current projections, the think tank said Scottish minister may be “ill advised” to water down the UK’s austerity programme.
John McCain responds to Putin’s op-ed
Republican Senator John McCain delivered a rebuttal to Vladimir Putin in an editorial for Pravda.ru, accusing the Russian president of repression, corruption and “destroying” Russian’s reputation on the world stage, according to the Huffington Post. In the op-ed titled "Russians deserve better than Putin," McCain claims that he was “more pro-Russian than the regime.”
Nick Clegg ushered in a new stage of divisive coalition politics after he denounced Tory “dogma” and reeled off a list of policies he had successfully forestalled yesterday, the Guardian reports. In a dramatic upping of his campaign to differentiate his party from the Tories, the deputy prime minister told the Lib Dem conference how he fights “tooth and nail” in an “endless battle” with his coalition partners.
Rouhani vows never to develop nuclear weapons
Iran’s new president’s stepped up his diplomatic game yesterday, the FT (£) reports. Rouhani told a US television network that Iran had no intention of developing nuclear weapons and insisted that he had the go ahead to strike a diplomatic deal over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The interview, the first with western media since his appointment, followed the release of 11 of Iran's most prominent political prisoners from jail yesterday.
Bedroom Tax: 50,000 face eviction
David Cameron faces renewed pressure to scrap the so-called Bedroom Tax after damning research showed that more than 50,000 tenants have fallen into arrears and face eviction since it was introduced in April, the Independent reports.
Independent Scotland faces 15% public spending cut
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has reported that an independent Scotland would be forced to cut public spending by 15 percent in the first two years of its life if it wanted to match the UK’s deficit reduction programme, Bloomberg reports. The alternative would be a tax rise or benefit cut. Even if oil revenues were “substantially stronger” than current projections, the think tank said Scottish minister may be “ill advised” to water down the UK’s austerity programme.
John McCain responds to Putin’s op-ed
Republican Senator John McCain delivered a rebuttal to Vladimir Putin in an editorial for Pravda.ru, accusing the Russian president of repression, corruption and “destroying” Russian’s reputation on the world stage, according to the Huffington Post. In the op-ed titled "Russians deserve better than Putin," McCain claims that he was “more pro-Russian than the regime.”
