A new seven day wait before people can claim benefits and a freeze in student maintenance grants will hit the poor hardest.

Why everyone’s pretty much making it up.

Three years have been wasted as infrastructure 'plans' have failed to progress to projects. In the Spending Review, the Chancellor has a chance to reverse course.

By repeatedly criticising the Chancellor for missing his deficit targets, the party risks reinforcing the impression that borrowing is always an economic ill.

The long era of the cover-up has unravelled, for perhaps the last time. Transparency now is crucial to any credible effort to restore trust.

Behind the government's rhetoric, things aren't getting better for working people. They’re getting much, much worse.

If austerity is wrong and counter-productive when the Tories do it, it will be wrong and counter-productive whoever does it.

The party should publish a series of potential fiscal rules for discussion and replace the VAT cut with a stimulus based on growth-raising capital investment.

Bills to privatise the BBC, restore the death penalty, ban the burqa, leave the EU and introduce Margaret Thatcher Day are among the 40 proposed by Tory MPs.

A bad day for UKIP as Farage's tax avoidance is exposed and the party loses its deposit in the Aberdeen Donside by-election.

After the knighting of Andrew Stunnell, the party now has seven knights and seven women MPs.

Without further welfare cuts or tax rises, the next government will have to cut departmental spending 50% faster.

Did it really take a choreographed Downing Street tea party to get an extra £1m for the Internet Watch Foundation?

In a rare interview, Salmond declares "the real game hasn’t even started" and reveals that a written Scottish constitution would guarantee every young person the right to a job or training.