John McDonnell, MP for Hayes & Harlington, has declared his candidacy for the Labour leadership. He writes in the Daily Mirror:
Apart from a few mentions in the Mirror you most probably won’t have heard of me. That’s because, to be frank, for the last 14 years I have been in the political wilderness.
Why? Because although [...]
Andrew Porter and James Kirkup write in the Daily Telegraph:
Both the coalition parties campaigned on a pledge to scrap Labour’s ID card scheme. That promise will be delivered by an Identity Documents Bill.
Approximately 13,000 people have already bought ID cards, which were introduced on a voluntary basis last year.
The cards – which can currently be [...]
Patrick Hennessy writes in the Sunday Telegraph:
A late draft of the Queen’s Speech, obtained by this newspaper, reveals that the Government will spell out an ambitious programme of at least 21 Bills to be introduced in the next 18 months.
Within days, the coalition Government intends to bring in key school reforms and scrap plans for [...]
According to Public Servant magazine:
A report has criticised the government for spending billions on IT projects and not having much to show for it.
According to the Centre for Technology Policy Research, the public sector spent approximately £21bn a year on public sector IT. Yet it said it was “difficult to find any compelling examples of [...]
According to the Independent’s leading article:
In politics, context is all important. At the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton in 2006 Nick Clegg, then the party’s home affairs spokesman, made a speech in which he promised a “great repeal act” to sweep away all of Labour’s illiberal legislation. Though the address went down well in [...]
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