by Sam | 21 Jul 2014 | Employment
The Conservative manifesto is to contain measures to stop Union bosses from holding “rolling” strikes and to ensure that a minimum turnout threshold of 50 per cent of the workforce is reached before a walkout, The Telegraph reports. There is currently no turnout...
by Sam | 21 Jul 2014 | Outsourcing, Third Sector
The Financial Times reports that private companies and charities should be able to compete with government agencies to help unemployed people find work, according to a think-tank close to the Conservative party. Policy Exchange says job centres are failing to help...
by Sam | 18 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The full list of Government Ministers has now been settled by the Prime Minister. Those holding positions in each Department can be found here.
by Sam | 18 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics, Transport
The Financial Times reports that Labour has insisted that part-nationalisation of the railway system will not scare away private companies, claiming operators would rather “cut their own throats” than withdraw. Ed Miliband’s radical plan for the railways, to be...
by Sam | 18 Jul 2014 | Whitehouse News
Head of Public Policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs Ryan Bourne discusses BBC funding, citing Whitehouse’s poll, available here.
