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Fiona Twycross AM Articles

Tipping point

Over the past few weeks, the extent of sharp practice over service charges and tips in the restaurant trade has been exposed with some chains charging between eight per cent and 10 per cent fees for dividing tips up between staff. In the case of Las Iguanas, waiting...

London’s (not) earning

Sending the strongest signal yet that the he is intent on targeting the poorest in our society, George Osborne used last month’s summer budget to announce a real-terms cut to tax credits. It was a move which will see millions of working people, already struggling to...

From the bearpit to the sandpit: Women hold the key to No 10

If last Sunday newspapers had suggested that childcare, not the economy, would be one of the key battleground issues emerging from the election manifesto launches this week many of us might have been sceptical. As the week has progressed, however, it has become clear...

Cameron’s Coup

In a week in which even deeper future cuts to welfare have been announced by Cameron, the publication of Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink by Polly Toynbee and David Walker seems particularly timely. With less than 100 days to go to the 2015...