As the main political parties set out their policy stalls in hastily written manifestos, the focus will be less on the headline announcements than what is left unsaid.
A programme of a similar scale to the unprecedented Covid-19 employment scheme might be necessary to keep rising energy bills from pushing millions of people into financial desperation, according to...
The Conservatives’ funding plans for local government will lead to “further retrenchment” in council services, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Liberal Democrats have pledged to invest £35bn in health and social care over the next five years via a one pence increase to the basic rate of income tax.
Business rates are broken and deter companies from investing to boost productivity - abolishing them would bring benefits to the public sector as well as enterprise, argues Lib Dem Lord Fox.
The failure of academy schools to share data is weakening attempts by councils to boost skills and employment, according to a panel of local government experts speaking at the Liberal Democrat...
The Liberal Democrats have committed to increasing public sector pay saying they would lift the government’s 1% pay cap and uprate wages in line with inflation.
The Liberal Democrats have set up an expert panel to examine the case for a dedicated NHS and care tax as part of a long-term funding settlement for health provision.
Vince Cable has been there, done that, delivered the economic warnings. Now the former coalition business secretary is predicting more turbulent weather ahead
Only the Liberal Democrats will be able to deliver a stable coalition government after next week’s general election, Nick Clegg has claimed today, as neither of the main parties were being honest...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pledged to increase the pay of public sector workers by at least the rate of inflation for the next two years, and more beyond that.
The Liberal Democrats would reform council funding by giving local authorities more powers over revenue and spending and a new right to demand devolution from Whitehall.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has set out plans to cap annual increases in working age benefits at 1% as part of plans to close the deficit by the end of 2017/18.
