The Prime Minister and his deputy have got themselves into deep water by repeating claims about the admissions policy at Oxford University.
 

 Readers of blogs on The Economist’s website might expect an understanding of what life expectancy means.

Feeling cheerful? Then take a dip into a report that emerged recently from the Cabinet Office.

Frank Field MP (pictured) has been asked by the Prime Minister to look into poverty.

Pensioners are a favourite group at election-time, some might say for cynical reasons.

Labour Party efforts to turn the tables on David Cameron’s attack on the poverty trap show some desperation.