Nearly three-quarters of voters polled say the government must protect and enhance current workplace rights like paid holidays and rights for temporary and agency workers.
This election should be the last ever conducted under the First Past the Post system which has shut out so many voices, says the Electoral Reform Society.
National Education Union says the fact that so many schools are effectively in limbo is 'a searing indictment of the dysfunctional academies and free schools policies.'
The majority of British people think the government should increase levels of tax and public spending, according to the British Social Attitudes survey.
Polling suggests an overwhelming majority of Conservative councillors believe planning permission should be required before drilling for shale gas begins.
Why do religious communities which for a long time strenuously resisted the new, the modern, the contemporary, now most successfully adapt their expressions and employ or even exploit the manifestations of 'the modern' which they once opposed? Martin E. Marty opens up an apparent conundrum.
Senior Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed Church and Salvation Army representatives will attend the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative party conferences to discuss their shared concerns.