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Former Conservative leadership candidate David Davis.
Tory MPs respond to Philpott case by calling for new curbs on child benefit
By George Eaton - 04 April 10:46

Those calling for child benefit to be limited to the first two offspring need to explain why children should be punished for being born into large families.

David Cameron has already outlined the draconian cuts the Tories would make.
Welfare cuts: how they could have been even worse
By George Eaton - 03 April 15:09

David Cameron has already outlined the draconian cuts a Conservative majority government would make.

David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband attend a ceremony at Buckingham Palace
Like it or not, the Tories and Labour are going to have get used to sharing power
By Mark Thompson - 29 March 19:22

With hung parliaments likely to become the norm, the kind of strop that Tory MPs are now throwing will be utterly counterproductive.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne leaves number 11 Downing Street.
Osborne ducks the growth challenge
By George Eaton - 19 March 15:45

The £2.5bn increase in capital spending, funded by greater cuts elsewhere, will boost GDP by just 0.06 per cent.

David Cameron during a press conference last week on press regulation.
David Cameron caves in over Leveson
By George Eaton - 18 March 8:43

The Tories accept Labour and Lib Dem demands for statutory underpinning of a Royal Charter to establish a new press regulator.

Four out of five claimants spent at least three quarters of the past four years
The myth of the "welfare scrounger"
By Ian Mulheirn - 15 March 15:58

A little noticed piece of DWP research shows that four out of five claimants spent at least three quarters of the past four years off unemployment benefit.

The sense of chronic impermanence in No. 10 fuels leadership speculation.
The feeling grows that David Cameron is a leader with nothing left to say
By Rafael Behr - 14 March 8:30

It is the sense of chronic impermanence in Downing Street that fuels leadership speculation.

The UK has grown at a slower rat than every G20 country except Italy and Japan.
The problem with Cameron's "global race": we're losing it
By George Eaton - 13 March 17:13

What the Tories' latest PPB didn't mention: the UK has grown at a slower rate than every G20 country except Italy and Japan.

Chancellor George Osborne walks into Downing Street to attend a security meeting
Osborne's constituents want a full-time Chancellor
By George Eaton - 13 March 12:56

Eighty one per cent say that Osborne should spend less time working as the Tories' chief election strategist and more time on "fixing the economy".

The Department for Education spent thousands of pounds on developing the GCSE r
Exclusive: Gove wasted £42,000 on abandoned EBC exams
By George Eaton - 11 March 15:26

In addition to "administration and staff costs", the Department for Education spent thousands of pounds on developing the GCSE replacement.

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