Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Changes made by the Labour Government mean that more that 200,000 families will have extra help with housing costs from Monday 2nd November. New rules around housing and council tax benefits mean that over 200,000 families will gain around £1,000 per year. The changes form part of a series of measures that will see a further 500,000 children lifted out of poverty - on the way to eradicating it...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Gordon Brown made a decent fist of contrition when he told his party last year how badly stung he had been by the 10p tax affair. A year on from that half-apology, the government is on course to dock the weekly budgets of families even poorer than the 10p losers – and to sting them for more than twice as much. Worse still, from Labour's perspective, is the fact that the pain is due just a few...
OberonHouston (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
During October 1,301 individual visitors came to the site viewing 2,623 pages. Using a feed viewer (where people don't actually visit the blog, but view it remotely), there were 28,259 views of the blog over the last month. There are normally more visitors than this, but considering that I was away for much of the month, moving country for another part, and the lack of political scandal, the numbers...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I am sorry but that is just aimed at the person who came to this site having googled - sexy pictures yvette cooper - Now why would anyone go looking for such images? This blog was the fourth site listed for this piece about "The world's most beautiful female politicians". As I said later in that article "Intelligent, highly competent women can be sexy but there aren't any in the Labour...
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
From [ edit ] Old Holborn To [ edit ] The Rt Hon. Ed Balls MP, The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, The Rt Hon Nick Brown MP, The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, The Rt Hon the Lord Mandelson, The Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP, The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP, The Rt Hon William Hague MP...
icWales (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Welfare reforms forcing single parents to look for work or risk losing benefits are "family friendly", Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper said.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper wants firms that advertise in jobcentres to consider part-timers Employers will be expected to offer more part-time jobs for working parents under a major shift in government thinking on family life. The move is likely to provoke an outcry from business and accusations that ministers are not taking into account the financial burden of extending workers' rights...
Events dear boy, events (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Commons education select committee, is far from happy with Ed Balls over the appointment of a new children's commissioner: Everyone knows Ed Balls likes his own way, and he’s a bit of a bully. He’s more of an executive man that a parliamentary man. Yvette Cooper will not be best pleased with this parting shot: I don’t think he likes strong independent...
Max Atkinson's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I’ve just caught up with BBC’s Question Time that was broadcast on the day of David Cameron’s leader’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Given what I’d said last week about the high spot being the sequence on poverty in which he 'surfed' applause ( HERE and HERE ), I wasn’t at all surprised to see two of QT guests singling it out for comment....
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
The Labour MP and former minister Malcolm Wicks admitted yesterday that "there is a widespread perception that Labour... is intellectually exhausted". And, one might add, not just "intellectually exhausted". Exhausted full stop. Personally I blame the kids. No seriously. An interesting feature of the Blair and Brown governments is just how many leading ministers have young children...
Andy Peacock (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Shadow Justice Minster Pay £25.000 of Expenses Conservative Shadow Justice Minister Eleanor Laing is paying back £25.000 in expenses after a metro expose despite being cleared by Sir Thomas Legg's report. She said she did not owe any money but felt honour –bound to do so, as I said I would go months ago. The Conservative MP also face a confidence vote by her local party in 12 days...
workinproperty (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, the number of people out of work grew by 88,000 to 2.47 million in the three months to August.Those claiming Unemployment benefit rose in September by 20,800 to 1.63million. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper says: “Although unemployment isn’t as high today as many feared it would be at the time...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
As the Independent on Sunday 's Katie Price correspondent - a post to which I was proud to be appointed because Alan Watkins was not available that week - I am saddened to report a failure on the part of Private Eye to grasp postmodern humour. Street of Shame in today's issue (not online) humourlessly takes issue with last week's OK! magazine, as if it were a newspaper. It complains that the cover...
Capitalists@Work (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Unemployment was not as bad as feared at 2.47 million {7.9%) and youth unemployment remained below 1 million. Reported in the news as good news by Yvette Cooper , as it shows economic growth, it still means 88,000 extra claimants in the last 3 months. The forecast was only for 2.5 million so its still pretty bad. But visiting many ,many shopping centres and high streets I was very surprised to note...
This is Money | Home (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper yesterday called Conservative plans to accelerate the increase in the state pension age to 66 by 2016 'deeply unfair'
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