This is what Obama said in a speech in earlier this year.I don't want America to be a nation that's primarily known for financial speculation and racking up debt buying stuff from other nations. I want us to be known for making and selling products all over the world stamped with three proud words: "Made in America." And we can make that happen. Or perhaps Miliband got the idea from the Daily Express, which also wants "Made in Britain" to become a mark of pride.The problem with this initiative is that, in practical terms, it won't achieve very much. Here's the Economist's political corresondent Janan Ganesh on Twitter.EdM speech is either advocating protectionism,
kate spade wallet sale, in which case it's wrong, or merely imploring us to buy British, in which it's meaningless.
? The Ministry of Justice has announced that almost ￡400,000 been deducted from prisoners' pay packets to fund services for victims in the first six months of a new government scheme. As the Press Association reports, under the Prisoners' Earnings Act, which came into effect in September last year in England and Wales, the charity Victim Support receives up to 40% of the wages of low-risk prisoners who work outside jail to prepare for their release. The cash - ￡383,000 over the first six months of the scheme - pays for support to help victims recover from crime, such as home security or professional counselling. ? Ministers have staged a new U-turn - by abandoning plans to trap buzzards and destroy their nests to protect pheasant shoots.
As Nicholas Watt reports,
ytcgzx.net, he will say he is determined to end his party's image as the champion of "those ripping off our society".2.30pm : The NHS Future Forum publishes its report recommending changes to the government's health bill. There will be full coverage on the NHS reforms live blog.2.30pm: Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, takes questions in the Commons.As usual I'll be covering all the breaking political news, as well as looking at the papers and bringing you the best politics from the web. I'll post a lunchtime summary at around 1pm, and an afternoon one at about 4pm.8.51am: Norman Lamb,
marc jacobs outlet, Nick Clegg's chief parliamentary adviser, was on Radio 5 Live this morning welcoming the changes that are being made to the health bill.
The Labour leader was careful not to fall into obvious bear traps – such as calling Cameron a liar in saying he received no "specific information" about Andy Coulson's possible unsuitability to become his communications chief.Always the best advice to someone who aspires to become prime minister one day is to leave that sort of loose talk to others. At last he looked the part, and Cameron is having to follow his lead.Miliband was adamant – he said it several times – that News Corp must not get its hands on 100% of BSkyB until after the police inquiries have been completed, by which time we will all have a better view of whether or not its senior managers are "fit and proper" people to run a TV network – or engaged in a high-level conspiracy to evade the law and cover up the consequences.
4.28pm: Ian Mulheirn, director of the Social Market Foundation, has posted a good blog about executive pay on the SMF website. He says that the transparency approach at the heart of Vince Cable's plans (see 3.54pm) is unlikely to work.Strengthening shareholder oversight and increasing transparency over top pay are the two most commonly suggested remedies this week. But it's doubtful that these will have much impact and the second could in fact push pay higher. Most institutional investors, even if they did want to act, aren't short of a bob or two themselves – not the best people to be in charge of pay moderation, you might think. And why anyone thinks that pay transparency will lower CEO wages is just baffling: how many shareholders of aspiring global multinationals want a cut-price Joe in charge?Instead Mulheirn suggests it would be better to reform the financial services industry to stop firms being able to make the excessive profits that drive excessive pay in the first place.
A taskforce is being set up in his constituency. Will the government support it?Yes, says Cameron. The work experience progamme is particularly helpful.12.11pm: Gary Streeter, a Conservartive, says NHS waiting times are falling.Cameron says the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks has reached a record low.12.12pm: Labour's Gisela Stuart says only five firms have benefited from an export guarantee scheme launched by the government.Cameron says that scheme was rolled into a larger one.12.13pm: Andrea Leadsom, a Conservative, asks about giving support to parents bonding with their new children.Cameron praises Leadsom for the work she has done on this.12.14pm: Nigel Dodds, a DUP MP, asks about prisoner voting.
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