News reaches me that one Tory run council is offering staff a 0% pay rise this year whilst the councillors themselves took a large increase in allowances and in addition to this, another council (Broadland) has seen the Tories ignore Lib Dem pleas at the last full council meeting to halt plans for a further rise in allowances in order to "show solidarity with council tax payers at this difficult t...

A document before Parliament shows ministers' secret plans to increase VAT to 18.5 per cent after the next election.

Westminster Council has been forced to scrap plans to save £14 million a year by making every resident and business clean up the front of their property after being told that the plans would be illegal. The plans, hatched at a secret meeting of the 'High Level Group' of Conservative Councillors and Officers on 23rd August and subsequently leaked to Labour Councillors, were aimed at...

Westminster Labour Councillors have called on Council Leader Colin Barrow and Housing Cabinet member Philippa Roe to mount a campaign to reduce the proposed 6.6% rent increase for Council tenants, announced by the Government last week. Labour say that the proposed Council house rent increase is higher than the proposed 6.2% increase proposed last year which Conservative Councillors campaigned agai...

An email from within the Conservatives’ treasury team reveals that there are secret plans to increase VAT to 19.5% and blame it on Labour’s economic management if Cameron gets the keys to Number 10, reports the Mirror: Mr Osborne’s plans were leaked to the Mirror in an email from a member of the Tory Treasury

The Lib Dem controlled Northampton Borough councillors this week voted to pass themselves a 7.7% pay increase for all councillors. The leader of the council voted himself a 43% pay increase. Yes, you read that right, a forty-three-per-cent pay increase....

Labour's plan for a zero increase in the council tax paid by Bromley residents was rejected by Bromley Tories at Monday night's council meeting. Bromley Conservative's are imposing a 0.94% increase in Council Tax from April 1st. This includes a 1.24% increase in Bromley's expenditure and a 0% increase in the GLA precept. Labour councillors argued that at a time when some reside...

Plans for secret coroners' inquests must be dropped immediately, according to the joint committee on human rights.

John Redwood, the former Cabinet minister, has become the latest senior Conservative to criticise the coalition Government's plans to increase capital gains tax.

Vince Cable’s caricature of Tory economic policy was so disingenuous that it failed to hit its target. He said: “The Tories propose cuts, carried out in secret behind closed doors after the election, if they win.” The Conservatives have pioneered the cuts debate and the other parties have followed. Although I’d like to see more detailed plans of Tory cuts, the party has bee...