Martin McGuinness, deputy First Minister of the Stormont Executive, speaks exclusively to Marcus Papadopoulos about Northern Ireland fourteen years on from the Good Friday Agreement and discusses the steps underway to invigorate the region economically and culturally.
As Vladimir Putin is officially inaugurated for a third term, Marcus Papadopoulos, Publisher and Editor of Politics First, discusses what the President’s leadership means for Russia and the world.
With health inequality growing between Scotland and the rest of the UK, Janine Ewen, MSc Health Improvement/Health Promotion at Robert Gordon University, reports on a conference of leading health professionals discussing how assets can be better used to create a community-friendly and improved public health service.
Cuts to civil legal aid will deny over half a million people – many of them children – access to justice, and Citizens Advice Bureaus and other organisations can not fill the vacuum, argues Lord Jeremy Beecham, Opposition Spokesman for Communities, Local Government and Health.
A pro-growth Budget? Yes, the Chancellor has reduced the top rate of tax and raised personal allowance, but he has not slashed taxes on savings, nor simplified the tax code. Tom Clougherty, Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute, analyses how much the Budget has created the conditions for a prosperous economy.
What more must be done to create a youth justice system that prioritises victims and communities, both punishes and rehabilitates more effectively, and does so within our financial means? Crispin Blunt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice offers his solution.
Reflecting on the Chancellor’s “Budget for business”, Angela Knight, Chief Executive of the British Bankers’ Association, explains why business confidence, including information on obtaining other sources of finance besides banks, is a priority for restoring and securing economic recovery.
On a day when the UK Border Agency once again comes under scrutiny over immigration and asylum, Keith Vaz, Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, outlines the challenges the Home Office faces and what is being done to rectify the failures and inconsistencies in the system.
The Budget is a positive step forward for small enterprises, argues John Walker, National Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, who outlines his ideal model for a growing economy which puts small business first.
Osborne’s Budget insults jobseekers, widens the North-South divide, and pushes the economy ever closer to another recession, argues Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE the Union.
Following the Chancellor’s Budget announcement, Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, outlines why millionaires will benefit while pensioners will lose out.
