THE Australian Svengali Lynton Crosby, who has led right-of-centre election campaigns around the world and is credited with David Cameron’s unexpected Commons majority two years ago, has contrived to reduce the British general election battle to one simple but excluding question: “Who do you want to lead Britain, Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn? Personality rather than policy is the battleground.

TÁNAISTE Brian Cowen yesterday dropped a broad hint that the 1% income tax cut promised in the Fianna Fáil manifesto and Programme for Government is not going to happen in December’s Budget.

THE Irish Exporters Association (IEA) has added its voice to calls for the benchmarking pay awards to public servants to be stopped.

Raising the retirement age to 75 would be the most effective way of avoiding a pensions crisis in Ireland, it was claimed today.

The leader of the Labour Party, Ruairi Quinn, has set down the way in which his party proposes to generate funds if it becomes part of the next Government.