Boris Johnson beats May and Osborne as public’s favourite for next Tory leader March 27, 2015 Boris Johnson is by leaps and bounds the public's choice to replace David Cameron as Tory leader, should he step down part way through a second term. Earlier this week, Cameron ruled out standing for a third term as Prime Minister, leading many commentators to write that he had effectively fired the starting gun on [...]
General Election 2015: Ed Miliband promises Labour will cap profits of private health companies March 27, 2015 Labour kicked off its General Election campaign today in London's Olympic Park with Ed Miliband promising to cap the amount of profit private companies can make from the NHS at five per cent. The Labour leader promised that if his party won this May's General Election it would put a stop to what he branded [...]
General Election 2015: Tory MPs want a second coalition with the Lib Dems and no deal with Ukip March 27, 2015 Conservative MPs, like their Labour counterparts, will always say publicly when asked that they are aiming for an outright Tory majority. But privately, many concede that this remains a distant prospect with the two major parties running neck and neck in the polls and Labour's inbuilt advantage thanks to the electoral system. If there is [...]
General Election 2015: Was David Cameron right about zero hours contracts during Paxman clash? March 27, 2015 David Cameron faced a harsh grilling from Jeremy Paxman last night with the former Newsnight presenter kicking off a tough round of questioning on food banks and zero hours contracts. Paxman challenged the Prime Minister on how many of the jobs created during the coalition's time in office were zero hours contracts, to which Cameron [...]
Barratt chief executive Mark Clare to step down in July March 27, 2015 Barratt Developments has announced David Thomas, the group's finance director, will replace Mark Clare as chief executive from 1 July 2015. Mark Clare will step down after nine years with Barratt to focus on his non-executive career, the housebuilder said. The board decided to appoint David Thomas after a review that included external advisers. Barratt [...]
General Election 2015: David Cameron wins TV contest on polls but Miliband beats expectations March 27, 2015 Last night, David Cameron and Ed Miliband put themselves before the electorate in the first televised contest of the General Election campaign. The party leaders faced an onslaught from veteran broadcaster Jeremy Paxman and answered direct questions from a live studio audience. While there was no knockout blow, no career ending gaffes or even any [...]
Ed Miliband is electoral “kryptonite” for landlords with 56pc backing Cameron March 26, 2015 Ed Miliband's popularity among the general public may be low, but his ratings among the nation's landlords are positively subterranean, new research suggests. Landlord website Rentify found that of the 2m landlords in Britain, just 19 per cent are supporting Labour. Miliband's personal approval rating among this group is a woeful 16 per cent. The [...]
Driverless cars could create 320,000 UK jobs and save 25,000 lives March 26, 2015 Connected and driverless cars could create a jobs boom in the UK and save thousands of lives, according to new research commissioned by SMMT Connected. Developing the next generation of autonomous vehicles could land the UK with as many as 320,000 jobs and deliver £51bn of economic benefits. The research, carried out by KPMG, argues [...]
Ed Miliband is the only party leader whose house would be hit by Labour’s mansion tax March 26, 2015 Ed Miliband is apparently the only one of the three major party leaders who lives in a mansion. The Labour leader's north London home is worth a whopping £2.7m, more than triple the area's average house price, according to online property portal Zoopla. Miliband would also be the only party leader who would be forced [...]
Blue and Red Ukip profiled: The two tribes at the heart of Nigel Farage’s party March 26, 2015 Ever since Ukip began to breach double digits consistently in the polls and win over councillors and MEPs beyond its southern heartlands, the makeup of Ukip supporters has shifted. Back in the old days Ukip voters were almost entirely made up of ex Conservatives and those who hadn't voted before. But with an increasingly aggressive [...]
