The Conservative Party has today launched a General Election iPhone app for activists and voters.
Available to download for free on the Apple App Store, the tool will help supporters keep up to date with the latest news from the campaign trail.
Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary and Spokesman for Online Campaigning, said “once again, the Conservative Party [...]
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Conservatives launch iPhone app – Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary
Prudential – Pension gap between men and women grows
LONDON, ENGLAND, February, 2010 / — According to new figures from the Prudential Class of 2010 retirement survey* women planning to retire in 2010 expect to receive an average annual pension of GBP12,169, while their male counterparts expect to collect an average pension of GBP19,593 – a pension gender gap of GBP7,424. And the pension [...]
Labour Government’s Growth Strategy
Labour’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson have launched the government’s growth strategy.
Building on the action taken over the last year in supporting the economy through the global downturn, the strategy sets out how Britain will take advantage of the opportunities open to the country.
Globalisation, technological change, climate change, natural resource pressure [...]
Labour’s recession hits manufacturing – Ken Clarke
Ken Clarke, the Shadow Business Secretary, has revealed that manufacturing output has declined by almost 13 per cent during Labour’s recession.
It has sunk to its lowest level since 1992, reversing the gains made under the Major Government.
Ken said that “manufacturing output was steadily rising during the last five years of the previous Conservative government and [...]
Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies to merge creating a second major force in the building society sector
The Boards of Yorkshire Building Society and Chelsea Building Society announced today that they have agreed to merge, creating a second major force in the building society sector.
The enlarged Society will have assets of £35bn, providing a competitive and secure alternative to the retail banks. With 2.7m members and a national network of 178 branches, [...]
UK Government to set up new bank chains
The government is to create three new High Street banking chains by 2015 as part of a major overhaul of the sector.
They will be set up by selling off parts of Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Northern Rock – the banks which had to be bailed out by the taxpayer.
Ministers and the European [...]
Radioactive finds in grazing land Survey of the field
The finds were made during a survey of the field.
A radioactive particle and two shovels worth of radioactive waste have been found in grazing land near a nuclear power site for the first time.
The field next to Dounreay on the Caithness coast has been earmarked for a low-level waste dump. The Scottish Environment Protection [...]
Real scale of UK joblessness said to be verging on six million – Policy Exchange
Just this morning the latest figures for the number of 18-24 year olds Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) have been released, which have hit a record high of 835,000, equivalent to 17.6% of that age bracket.
Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts, commented:
“More than one in six young people are now without a [...]
Philip Hammond says insolvencies are human cost of Brown’s recession
New figures show that the number of people declared insolvent has hit a record high in England and Wales.
Data released by the Insolvency Service shows that there were 33,073 individual insolvencies in the second quarter of 2009, an increase of 27.4% on the same period a year ago.
Philip Hammond, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, [...]