General Election 2015: David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg on how they’re going to solve the housing crisis (and which is their favourite room) April 23, 2015 House prices are too high and there aren't enough homes on the market, a new – not altogether surprising – study has suggested. But with an election just days away, property search giant Rightmove, which conducted the research, decided to take it to the leaders of each party to see what they're going to do [...]
Your Move: London rental prices have soared 27pc under David Cameron April 22, 2015 Residential rents in London have far outstripped the rate of inflation under the current government, according to a new report out today. Rent in the capital increased by 27.4 per cent since the last General Election, according to the latest Buy-to-Let index from estate agents Your Move and Reeds Rains. Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) increased [...]
General Election 2015: Milifandom vs Cameronettes – who is winning the social media battle? (Answer: It’s much less tight than the real thing) April 22, 2015 Something is happening on Twitter…. are politicians becoming… cool? Possibly. It seems to have started with one Labour-loving AS level student's ambition yesterday to launch a campaign fighting the view that Ed Miliband's image is a problem. https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590583801698463744 Her plan was good. Almost too good: https://twitter.com/Sidra_h92/status/590797834745675776 https://twitter.com/alexshilling/status/590793495692124160 https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590795472962527234 https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590805244206047232 [...]
David Cameron: Labour-SNP is a match made in hell April 20, 2015 A Labour-SNP alliance would be “a match made in hell” for the UK economy, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday. In a speech at a train factory in Crewe, Cameron said Labour leader Ed Miliband would bring the economy “to a grinding halt” if he did a deal with Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon. “Make [...]
General Election 2015: David Cameron challenges SNP over devolution with the “Carlisle Principle” April 20, 2015 David Cameron has thrown down the gauntlet to the SNP by promising to conduct yearly reviews of devolution to ensure that decisions made in Holyrood do not result in the rest of the UK losing out. The powers of the Scottish parliament "can now have a big impact on your job, your income, and investment [...]
Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, Leanne Wood to appear in BBC election specials after Ed Miliband, David Cameron, and Nick Clegg get Question Time slots April 18, 2015 Nigel Farage is to be served up to a regional audiences as part of a several BBC specials ahead of the General Election. Farage will appear in a programme in England on 30 April, the same day Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood will appear in [...]
General Election 2015: David Cameron slams Ed Balls as Miliband’s third choice for shadow chancellor April 16, 2015 The General Election campaign got heated today after David Cameron slammed Ed Balls for describing the note left by ex-Treasury minister Liam Byrne telling the government there was no money left as "a joke." Balls made the remarks after in an interview with the BBC in the West Midlands yeasterday. He claimed Byrne's note that [...]
TV leaders’ debate: Nicola Sturgeon biggest winner on Facebook from last debate but Cameron still dominates the conversation April 15, 2015 Nicola Sturgeon was the big winner on social media, more than doubling her Facebook interactions following the leaders' TV debate. According to new data released by Facebook, in the six days following the debate which Sturgeon was widely perceived to have won, the number of posts, comments and likes concerning the Scottish first minister rocketed, [...]
Leaders’ interviews: David Cameron faces down accusation that Tories are party of the rich April 15, 2015 David Cameron has taken on the charge that his party is one that stands for the rich. In the second round of leaders' interviews, conducted by Newsnight's Evan Davis, the Prime Minister said the charge of standing up for the wealthy made him "more angry than almost anything else". When asked whether he agreed with some [...]
Conservative manifesto: David Cameron gives “absolutely no detail” of major cuts, says IFS April 14, 2015 The plan David Cameron hopes will win the Tories the General Election back has been blasted by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) over a "lack of detail". The Tory leader presented his party's manifesto in a speech delivered in Swindon earlier today. The document was brimming with goodies for the electorate, including an [...]