• In which Jeremy Thorpe, John Pardoe and Paul Tyler tour selected resorts of Cornwall and Devon by Hovercraft

    Updated: 2024-11-20 23:09:00
    The summer of 1974 was enlivened by Jeremy Thorpe and other Liberal MPs touring the beaarty ches of Britain by hovercraft, in anticipation of a general election in the autumn. Harold Wilson duly called one for October. Whether people enjoying a seaside holiday would be in the mood to meet politicians is a point you hope the party considered first. Anyway, here is a report from the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser (15 August 1974) looking forward to such a tour by Thorpe, John Pardoe and Paul Tyler. There's a mention too for Edward Sara, the Liberal candidate for Falmouth ...

  • Consequences

    Updated: 2024-11-20 08:48:00
    Grappling with farmers over inheritance tax is one thing, but the real downside of Labour's budget is its impact on pensioners and parents. The latter because of the failure to abolish the two-child benefit cap, the former because of the abolition of the winter fuel paymemnt as a universal benefit. The Guardian reports on analysis which shows that 50,000 more people will be in relative fuel poverty next year - and another 50,000 by 2030 as a result of this cut. The paper says that the government's own analysis has found that cuts to the winter fuel allowance could force ...

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