Old Tricks

Alistair Darling and Caroline Flint have been up to New Labour's old tricks, using spin to bury bad news, . Today, I reveal in Inside Housing that their announcement of “extra” money to show homeowners the government is on their side actually disguises a cut in funding for advice services.

Meanwhile, in the New Statesman, my colleague Martin Bright has an interview with the Chancellor:

Alistair Darling was once the safest pair of hands in the government. A year after becoming Chancellor, our political editor, Martin Bright, asks him where it all went wrong