Miliband's 'British promise'
Ed Miliband will warn today of a "real and legitimate fear" that today's children will have fewer opportunities for prosperity and happiness than their parents' generation.
For the first time in more than a century, there is a risk that the new generation will find it harder to get an education, find a decent job and own a home than their mothers and fathers did, he will say.
The Labour leader will describe the expectation that every generation will do better than the last as the "British promise" - the UK's version of the "American dream".
While Nick Clegg will say the coalition is determined not only to pay off Britain's deficit but to create "a new model of sustainable economic growth".
The deputy prime minister will say that the government inherited from its Labour predecessor not only crippling debt but also a "failed economic model" fuelled by debt and overly reliant on financial services.
In a speech in Rotherham, South Yorkshire he will say Britain faces "a long, hard road back to prosperity" following the recession.
The union representing parliamentary staff has written to the the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority(Ipsa) appealing for its support against cases of "abuse and poor treatment" by MPs.
The current system has left 3,000 "vulnerable" staff with "woefully inadequate employment protection, next-to-useless disciplinary and grievance procedures and no rights to protect them from the whims of their sometimes appalling employers", said the union.
In the Commons today MPs will debate private members bills, beginning with Anna Soubry's Anonymity (Arrested Persons) Billand Mark Lancaster's Coinage (Measurement) Bill.
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