David Cameron has made a great start and showed good leadership dealing with the expenses problem. One of the questions he is going to have to answer is "what about MP's second jobs?" I personally have no problem with MPs having second jobs - so long has they do not interfere with their duties. There is a massive difference between the Tories and Labour when it comes to second jobs, especiall...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Work and Pensions Secretary responding to David Cameron's hypocrisy on a recent visit to Liverpool said: "The barefaced cheek of David Cameron is breathtaking. "David Cameron has opposed every single penny of the funding for the Future Jobs Fund, and his party has pledged to abolish it. Yet now he turns up telling young people that he thinks it is a "good schem...

The Tories are the only party that can bring "law and order" to the financial markets, the opposition leader, David Cameron, will declare today as he sets out his plans to reform regulation of the sector. Cameron will accuse the government of being concerned with new rules that "look good on paper" but will not work in practice and will renew a pledge to restore powers to the Bank of England. He w...

Opposition leader David Cameron will say the Tories are the only party that can bring "law and order" to the financial markets in a speech later today as he sets out his plans to reform regulation of the sector.

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary responding to David Cameron’s hypocrisy on a recent visit to Liverpool said: “The barefaced cheek of David Cameron is breathtaking. “David Cameron has opposed every single penny of the funding for the Future Jobs Fund, and his party has pledged to abolish it. Yet now he turns up telling young people that he thinks it is...

The Scotsman (Cameron’s plans to cut number of MPs could backfire for Scottish Tories) points out that Cameron’s plan to cut the number of Westminster MPs could backfire spectacularly leaving him with no Scottish MPs and, presumably, no Scots in cabinet. A PROPOSAL by David Cameron to cut the number of MPs at Westminster could make

Angela Smith today called for continued investment in South Yorkshire to help people back into work. Angela said: "We've got to keep investing in jobs through the recovery. I am backing the Future Jobs Fund which will bring more jobs to the area, jobs that David Cameron wants to slash. "In previous recessions unemployed young people were left on the scrapheap. We can't let this happen ag...

David Cameron said at his press conference this week that Labour was obsessed with dividing lines between the two parties (he was talking after he welcomed the Government's welfare green paper.) Well here's one - stopping MPs having second jobs. In the grisly aftermath of Crewe and 10p tax when Gordon Brown was on his knees, the word went out that the fightback needed some decent ideas that would ...

David Cameron has dropped plans to force his shadow cabinet to axe their lucrative outside jobs in the new year, following threats of a revolt by senior Tories

But Phillip Blond is too soft on Cameron and Osborne: The financial crisis has changed everything. Economic blue water has opened up between Labour and the Tories. David Cameron has broken with Labour's spending plans and derided the idea that more debt can be the basis for future growth. Gordon Brown has accused the Tories of reverting to Thatcherism and doing nothing in the face of recession. Wi...