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Doctors, nurses, health workers and patients are lining up to defend the NHS from Tory minister Andrew Lansley’s privatisation plot. So just whose support are Lansley and his pals counting on?

Anyone in any doubt that the Tories are still scum should listen in on the House of Commons debates on the Welfare "Reform" Bill. The sheer callousness with which government backbenchers dismiss critics of the Conservative-Liberal coalition’s attacks on benefits is enough to make the blood boil.

Time to reach for the world’s smallest violin. Bankers and their Tory chums are feeling sorry for themselves.

The Tories plan to make bad changes to family law.

Student loans company boss Ed Lester has saved thousands of pounds through a tax deal with the Tories. It was signed between the treasury and Lester in 2010.

Michael Farmer, the new Tory party treasurer, is a hedge fund boss with a £100 million fortune.

Climate change could be good for British businesses, according to Tory environment secretary Caroline Spelman.

The Tories are to exclude thousands of vocational courses currently classed as equivalent to GCSEs from school league tables.

Up to 200 people blockaded Regent Street in central London today, Saturday, in opposition to attacks on disabled people in the government’s Welfare Reform Bill.

The government’s statistics watchdog has attacked ministers for releasing lurid figures last week suggesting some 370,000 migrants are claiming benefits.

Important shifts in the battle against Tory attacks on public sector pensions took place last week.

The leaders of Britain’s three largest unions last week denounced Labour’s Ed Miliband and Ed Balls for supporting the Tory austerity agenda.