We've all got debts coming out of our ears - be they student loans, gas bills that you've sellotaped to the fridge for three months and ignored completely, or the owners of several local bars hunting you down and informing you that the tab you've been keeping for the… read more…

Want a further addition to the recent media furore about MPs' declared - and more importantly undeclared - expenses? Oh, go on, then. It turns out that now Michael Martin, speaker of the House Of Commons, is due to face a probe into his financial dealings. It's being carried… read more…

After a bumper weekend of massive poll leads and oblique policy statements, David Cameron is to show just how little work has really gone into Tory tax planning by dusting off the 2005 David James review of public spending: David Cameron is to salvage a Tory plan to cut government… read more…

Westmonster is confused. Not 3 weeks ago, the Telegraph headline read "Tories look to tax cuts to help economy." Yet today, in a piece about the Conservatives' plan to raise spending on the NHS at the expense of other services, the Telegraph seems to be saying rather the opposite: "It… read more…

The shift on Tory thinking on matching Labour spending continues apace in half-term. Today, the Daily Mail are reporting that any pledge to match spending would be very short-term: David Cameron is to signal that the Tories are making no long-term pledge to match Labour's spending commitments. Senior sources insisted… read more…

Andrew Pierce and Toby Helm are obviously helping out with Tory mood music this morning, with a story that Cammers and Boy George are preparing a rethink on spending: David Cameron is prepared to drop his pledge to match Labour's spending increases after the next election to pave the way… read more…

Our obsession with Tory spending plans continues to grow. Latest evidence: a fascinating Daniel Finkelstein comment piece riffing on Fraser Nelson's Coffee House post which argues that George Osborne should simply drop his pledge to match Labour spending plans: Cameron is doing nothing original in aping Brown’s spending plans. This… read more…