Helping with the Cost of Living
We understand that times are hard and that family budgets are being stretched but we are doing what we can to help whilst staying on the safe course to economic recovery. Unlike Labour we are taking the tough decisions needed to sort out our nation’s finances to ensure that our generation’s debt is not left [...]
Continue Reading →Audit Office slams Labour’s NHS IT failure
An independent report published today by the National Audit Office (NAO) has laid bare how the last government frittered away taxpayers’ money on an IT vanity project without proper planning and without any attempt to secure value for money. The NAO’s report stated that the rate at which electronic care records systems are being put [...]
Continue Reading →Welcome rise in private sector employment
New figures show a rise of 143,000 people in employment, driven largely by growth in the private sector. The number of unemployed young people not in full time education also fell over the quarter. The employment growth indicates that the private sector will be able to create more jobs than the OBR predicts will be [...]
Continue Reading →Red Tape Challenge
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to “tackle regulation with vigour” and challenged the public to give evidence from the real world on which regulations are working and which are creating obstacles. Ministers said that red tape and bureaucracy had been allowed to spiral out of control, burdening businesses, hurting the economy and damaging society. [...]
Continue Reading →Reforming the damaging compensation culture
Ken Clarke has announced a crackdown on the damaging compensation culture that is costing businesses millions of pounds a year. The plan is part of the Government’s mission to curtail the unwieldy courts system and deliver swifter, easier and less costly access to justice for all. This is the first major overhaul of civil [...]
Continue Reading →AV will give extremist parties more credibility
At a speech in central London, Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party Baroness Sayeeda Warsi spoke about the dangers of the Alternative Vote system being introduced for UK Parliamentary elections. Speaking at Toynbee Hall, Baroness Warsi warned that under AV fringe parties such as the BNP would hold the balance of power. In her speech she [...]
Continue Reading →A Budget to fuel growth
The Chancellor has delivered his Budget to the House of Commons, pledging to “put fuel into the tank of the British economy”. George Osborne set out his ambitions for Britain: that this country should have the most competitive tax system in the G20; be the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a [...]
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