Ed Miliband used his family life to highlight the repercussions of David Cameron's
economic programme today, in a decidedly personal keynote speech today.
Not exact matches
Social democracy
today is bereft of an
economic programme.
He told BBC Radio 4's
Today programme on Saturday morning: «Almost the entire government machine is spending its time seeking to wrench us out of the key
economic and political institutions of the EU.
The chancellor
today signalled a change of focus away from the government's
programme of public spending cuts, promising to restructure the economy and promote a «new model» of
economic growth.
The ever deepening European and global
economic crisis, and the probably now irreparable rift in the Tory Party, combined with the completely unreformable hostility to any, even mildly, Left
programme, of the Blairites, means that by 2020 the UK Westminster Parliament and party structures across the spectrum could well be very different to
today's frankly, unworkable Tory and Labour Party formations.
This morning, Commons leader Chis Grayling was sent out to bat, telling the
Today programme that the Government would not be distracted from its overall
economic strategy.
The New Dynamics of Ageing
Programme (NDA), a collaboration between five of the UK's Research Councils - the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the
Economic and Social Research Council and the Medical Research Council, has
today announced the second round of successful applications to be funded under the
programme.
«In the last ten years we have achieved an almost unparalleled period of stable
economic growth with historically low inflation - I want to keep it that way,» the chancellor said on this morning's
Today programme.
«Monetary policy and liquidity can't solve this problem, because fundamentally this is about confidence... that goes to the deeper problem with the government's
economic strategy,» Mr Balls told the
Today programme.
Amidst reports that David Cameron «has effectively taken over the party's
economic policy» (Iain Martin) the Tory leader was on the
Today programme at 8.10 am to answer questions on how he would restore order to Britain's public finances (listen again).
Gove told the
Today programme: «When the Heath government in the 1970s decided to change
economic course, that was a disaster.
The Nazis took advantage of the extreme
economic hardship that followed the First World War and a global depression, but
today's populist movements are growing powerful in wealthy European countries with strong social
programmes.
«Renewable energy technologies are a crucial element in achieving a balanced global energy future; renewables can make major contributions to the diversity and security of energy supply and to
economic development», said Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA)
today in Paris, at the launch of a new publication: Renewable Energy: RD&D Priorities, Insights from IEA Technology
Programmes.
The business secretary Vince Cable told BBC Radio 4's
Today programme that «the fear» of tribunals was «a major impediment» for businesses recovering from the
economic downturn and hiring workers.