Results tagged “government”

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Whenever the Chancellor's Budget is delivered the first thing people will look at is what's in it for them.

Never mind the figures or the shaky prediction of what it will be like in five years' time, people want to know what is going to be done now to help them get on in life.

By John Biggs

There may still be legal challenges but West Ham's move to the Olympic stadium is good news. Many months of uncertainty have come to an end, we can plan for the future and, although we will never get all the money back, the risk of a major white elephant has gone.

And the club can plan for the future.

Crossrail has announced the Government is to fund 100 per cent of the price of its trains, totalling £1billion.

It had previously agreed to contribute £350million towards the rolling stock but has now revised the figure following agreement by the Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Oh what fun we've had. A massive vote in favour of House of Lords reform effectively killed off "procedurally" by a massive Tory rebellion.

I had six emails recently on this subject, so no mass public interest; but we spent two days on debate and the Government offered 10 more.

The entire country isn't opposed to the public sector strikes. Just those who haven't got jobs at all, those who haven't got any meaningful pensions, those in the private sector who face far more draconian cutbacks on their benefits, those in the small business sector who live with daily insecurity, and, of course, the army of parents valiantly attempting to arrange childcare as the schools shut.