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| "They score highly on the 'meh index'" Polling tyrannyPoll puts Labour and Tories neck-and-neck – but is it an outlier? The Conservatives have pulled level with Labour following a massive drop in Ukip support, according to a monthly Guardian/ICM poll. Slapped down: Poll setback for Tory right-wingers Conservative right-wingers have been warned against playing "fantasy politics" after new polling suggested their ideas are leaving voters cold. In other newsEnergy bills blame game heats up Energy consumers' anger at rising prices should be directed towards the government, one of Britain's biggest suppliers has suggested. Comment: While the government cracks down on drugs, it keeps its hands off big tobacco Any sane assessment of risks would put alcohol and tobacco on the same footing as cannabis and ecstasy. Lynton Crosby anger channelled into lobbying bill squabble Ministers are set to confront the lobbying industry with the publication of new legislation later, as the row over Lynton Crosby's influence over the prime minister arrives in Westminster. Competition: Win a boxset of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom The complete first season of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom is out on Blu-ray and DVD from July 22nd and we're giving three Politics.co.uk readers a chance to win a copy. | McCluskey: Ed Miliband can make Labour the political party people needLen McCluskey, leader of the UK’s biggest union, Unite, will use his speech at the historic Durham Miners’ Gala today (Saturday) to call upon Labour to renew its connection to working people by delivering a genuine alternative to the government’s ruinous austerity programme. ESRC: 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'The ESRC is delighted to announce the funding of the new independent 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'. NUT and NASUWT confirm next phase of industrial actionThe two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, are today confirming the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign to Protect Teachers and Defend Education. IET: Army officer receives prestigious engineering award for leadership in AfghanistanAn officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) has been recognised for her leadership and innovation during operations in Afghanistan. RSPCA: Baby gull plucked from nest and thrown from roofThe RSPCA is urging greater tolerance of gulls this summer holidays after a baby gull was thrown from the top of a two-storey department store and killed. CPAG: Low wages and Universal Credit in danger of locking families into povertyAlison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, responds to the findings of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Universal Credit published today. MRSA Action UK: Accounting for the reductions in MRSA and C.diff flawed - these are lives, not numbersPublic Health England figures show that trends over the last two years reveal that there is a direct correlation between the hospital and community apportioned cases of both Clostridium difficile and MRSA bloodstream infections. BHA: Legal humanist marriages move one step closerThe government has today brought forward a proposal for regulations that would give legal recognition to humanist marriages in England and Wales. The proposal is being made as an amendment to the Same Sex Marriage Bill currently in the House of Lords and comes in the wake of overwhelming cross-party support for legal recognition expressed by peers from all parties at the previous reading of the Bill. |
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