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Labour steps nervously towards Lords welfare votes
January 23, 2012 12:35 pm 2 Comments
There is a major Labour operation going on to try to make sure that Labour doesn't get labelled as some sort of "scrounger's friend" in the Lords votes on welfare today and it's making some Labour peers I've spoken to pretty unhappy.
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No spending review “shock and awe” attack on universal benefits
September 8, 2010 7:23 pm 5 Comments
Gary Gibbon blogs on how universal benefits such as winter fuel allowance and free bus travel may not suffer a "shock and awe" attack in next month's spending review.
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Going up: grad tax. Going down: IDS?
July 14, 2010 5:14 pm 2 Comments
Vince Cable wil point towards a graduate tax in a speech tomorrow, while Iain Duncan Smith is having a touch time at the DWP, blogs Gary Gibbon.

