David Cameron has today announced Conservative plans for a new generation of Sure Start Centres to focus on the neediest families and involve organisations with a track record of helping parents.
The new model of Sure Start Centre will deliver dedicated support to disadvantaged and dysfunctional families as part of the Sure Start programme.
They will be [...]
David Cameron – A new generation of Sure Start Centres
Artifacts once owned by Bernie Madoff went on auction in New York on Saturday, pulling in almost a cool million.
Madoff’s Mets jacket sells for … $14,500
By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer
November 14, 2009: 6:15 PM ET
Pieces of Madoff
Many of Bernie Madoff’s victims wanted a piece of the felonious financier. This week they could get one: Hundreds of his and Ruth’s possessions went up for auction Saturday and they fetched nearly $1 million, a lot [...]
Dominic Grieve condemns “deeply concerning” number of missing prisoners
Dominic Grieve has attacked the Government over its “shocking and deeply concerning” admission that almost a thousand prisoners who should have been sent back to prison are missing.
935 offenders are on the run after being recalled from release on licence between January 1999 and March 2009.
612 offenders, including 19 murderers and 26 sex offenders, have been missing for over a year.
Dominic, [...]
Grant Shapps – Is the internet the saviour or corruptor of democracy?
Grant Shapps MP
Last night I was the only politician on a panel at a Henry Jackson Society debate The Internet: Saviour or Corruptor of Democracy?
Battle lines were drawn early on when the new media blogger Guido Fawkes (aka Paul Staines) savaged old school journalists – Nick Robinson (BBC) and Michael White (Guardian) accusing them of [...]
Lord Taylor – Defeating the BNP through challenge and debate
The Lord Taylor of Warwick
Nick Griffin is one man who is happy to have egg on his face. This week the BNP leader attempted to hold a press conference outside parliament. Anti-racist groups threw eggs at him.
As I watched the television pictures I could see him smiling as the eggs made impact. He is shrewd [...]
UK Mp’s expenses fiasco rumbles on
More expenses revelations as the saga rumbles on.
“A Labour MP says he will stand down at the next election if his constituents demand it, following allegations over his second home expenses claims. The Daily Telegraph says Dr Ian Gibson, Norwich North MP, claimed for a London flat while his daughter and her partner lived there [...]
98% of ‘new’ UK Government apprentices are existing trainees
New Government figures show that just thirty of the 1,395 people being trained on Labour’s flagship apprenticeship scheme are new employees.
The remaining trainees – 98 per cent of those on the scheme – were already employed in central Government prior to becoming apprentices.
David Willetts, the Shadow Innovation, Universities and Skills Secretary, said the figures cast [...]
David Cameron – A defining week in the history of this Government
Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Friday, April 17 2009
I think it’s been a pretty defining week in the history of this Government.
It started with all that nonsense over Easter when it emerged that while people up and down the country were worried about their jobs, homes and futures, one of the Prime Minister’s main advisers [...]
Lord Ahmed Released after serving 15 Days of jail sentence
What in the world is going on – would this release have been allowed if the name had been, Smith, Green, Jones, or any other traditional British surname?
Texting peer freed after appeal
He was jailed after admitting dangerous driving last month. He has been freed after serving 15 days of his sentence.
A Labour peer who [...]