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Families concerned over sailors held by Iran

The families of five Britons seized in the Gulf spoke after reports that the crew faced "serious" action.

Inside UK Politics

'Switch PMQs so MPs stay around longer'

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Nigel Morris: The Commons Speaker is pressing for Prime Minister’s Question Time to be moved to Thursdays.

UK heading for a hung parliament, poll shows

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Andrew Grice: Labour closes gap to ten points as economic confidence returns, according to the latest ComRes poll for The Independent.

A demonstrator burns a mask of Tony Blair outside the Iraq Inquiry headquarters in Westminster yesterday.

I did not bully Lord Goldsmith, insists Blair

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Former PM comes out fighting as more revelations emerge from inquiry

This is a political as well as a military surge, says PM

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Brown confirms Afghan reinforcements and admits presence of special forces

John-Paul Massey was mauled to death by a dog at a house in Liverpool

Dog that mauled boy to death was illegal

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The dog that savaged John-Paul Massey to death was an illegally-held pitbull-type dog banned for being too dangerous to keep, it was revealed today.

Clegg denies U-turn over 'mansion tax'

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Liberal Democrat leaders beat a hasty retreat yesterday from controversial plans to impose a "mansion tax" on the owners of £1m homes.

Alex Salmond

SNP makes the case for Scottish independence

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Salmond uses St Andrew's Day to launch campaign to break up the Union

Tories and Labour clash over marriage policy

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

David Cameron accused Labour of "pathological" opposition to supporting marriage as he pledged a Tory government would reward every wedded couple through the tax system.

Brown confirms 500 extra troops

Monday, 30 November 2009

The Prime Minister said that all the conditions had been met to allow an extra 500 troops to be deployed in December. The "total military effort" would be more than 10,000 troops including special forces.

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