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David Cameron thinks that Canada can show us how to slash public debt. Is he right?
Saturday, 11 July 2009
As a younger Gordon Brown was bolting the New in front of Labour in the mid-Nineties, he made frequent schoolboyish field trips across the Atlantic to study the slick campaign and policy lessons from Bill Clinton's victories in the US. This is the stuff of opposition, to learn from those who have blazed a trail you want to follow – and also to lodge in the public consciousness back home the idea that, yes, you are destined to follow them.
Darling could hold pre-election review 'to level' with voters new
Saturday, 11 July 2009
The Government could still hold a review of public spending before going to the country in a general election, Chancellor Alistair Darling indicated today.
Tories may sacrifice Africa for climate change fight
Friday, 10 July 2009
Andrew Grice and Michael Savage: Warning from campaigners over Conservative plans to rethink Britain’s aid budget
Yard rules out inquiry as hacking row simmers on
Friday, 10 July 2009
Recriminations fly after allegations that News of the World phone-hacking targeted thousands.
Squatters ordered to quit MPs' house
Friday, 10 July 2009
Squatters living in a house owned by husband and wife Labour MPs, who are facing a formal sleaze probe over their expenses, were ordered to leave by a court today.
Public figures 'suing over phone hacking'
Friday, 10 July 2009
High profile figures whose phones were allegedly hacked by the News of the World are considering suing the newspaper, according to lawyers.
Targets urged to cut Heathrow stacking
Friday, 10 July 2009
Targets to eliminate excessive aircraft stacking - where planes queue up to land - must be set if a third runway is built at Heathrow, a report by MPs said today.
Ex-forces chief hits at lack of funding
Friday, 10 July 2009
A former head of the armed forces has accused the Government and the Prime Minister of spending the "minimum they could get away with" on defence in Afghanistan and putting soldiers at risk, it was reported today.
He may be implicated, but Coulson is too important to lose
Friday, 10 July 2009
Denis MacShane, the sharp-eyed Labour MP, was one of the few people outside the Conservative Party to spot the embattled spin doctor Andy Coulson yesterday – in an inner courtyard of the House of Commons beneath Big Ben.
MPs' second incomes kept under wraps
Friday, 10 July 2009
Key details of MPs' outside earnings remained a secret last night, despite new rules designed to boost transparency in Westminster coming into force.
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