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'Slimline' Queen's Speech to push financial reform
Election-year legislative programme to prioritise debt and social care.
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Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers
Friday, 13 November 2009
Portrayal of immigration concerns as racist is 'lazy elitism', says PM.
Labour wins Glasgow North East by-election
Friday, 13 November 2009
Gordon Brown today survived his latest by-election test when Labour comfortably cruised to victory in the Glasgow North East by-election.
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Has Cameron done a deal?
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Andy McSmith: Mandelson attack shines spotlight on Tory leader's links with Rupert Murdoch
TV bosses act over election deadlock
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Andrew Grice: Broadcasters have proposed three American-style debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg .
Tighter immigration rules
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The Prime Minister announced a review of student visas to target people intending to work here illegally.
Griffin announces alliance of EU nationalist parties
Thursday, 12 November 2009
BNP leader Nick Griffin today announced a new political alliance to fight "this monstrous federal Europe".
Anger over MoD civil servants' bonuses
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The staff have shared performance bonuses of almost £300m since the start of the war in Iraq.
Ex-ministers call for vote on war in Afghanistan
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Pressure grows on Brown after claim that US was close to troop decision is rejected
Independent Live! 'In a democracy, changes are made by us'
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The latest debate was a fiery affair that covered topics from the crisis in politics to climate change
MPs back hacker's extradition fight
Thursday, 12 November 2009
An influential committee of MPs today threw its weight behind the campaign to stop computer hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US.
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1 Labour wins Glasgow North East by-election
2 Female Red Arrow is cleared for take-off
3 Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers
4 Worldwide record-breaking mania strikes
5 'Slimline' Queen's Speech to push financial reform
6 Victory for The Independent as secret court opens its doors
7 Justin Fenton in London: Police think ignorance of crime is bliss
8 Ex-ministers call for vote on war in Afghanistan
9 Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?
10 Justin Fenton: 'Disputes are pettier than in Baltimore'
11 Justin Fenton in London: The sound of fireworks reminds me of home
12 Brown details tighter immigration rules
13 Man sacked for belief in psychics backed by judge (but, of course, he knew that would happen)
14 Justin Fenton in London: Britain's use of DNA is light years ahead
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2 Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers
3 Beckham reveals his battle with obsessive disorder
4 Labour wins Glasgow North East by-election
5 Thursday: Minute by minute, the horror emerges
6 How 3G phone technology created instant history
7 The wheel thing: Will Self on the Brompton bike
8 Knife killers to serve at least 25 years
9 32 years on, man accused of Capt. Nairac's murder
10 Retired police dogs to get pensions
11 Islamic leaders will issue 'fatwa' on terrorists
12 Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
13 Franchise terrorism: 'Trying to hit al-Qa'ida is like trying to hit jelly'
14 Crackdown! Police officers mount huge drug swoop
15 'Big society' is the solution to poverty, declares Cameron
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1Brown details tighter immigration rules
2Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?
3Anger over MoD civil servants' bonuses
4Undercurrent of doubt over electric motors
5Mandelson to become Government's 'TV face'
6The Rolling Stone who gathered no money
7Honduran crisis 'threatens democracy'
8Man sacked for belief in psychics backed by judge (but, of course, he knew that would happen)
9They come in search of justice ? but end up thrown into jail
Columnist Comments
• Andreas Whittam Smith: Brown is plunging down the same abyss as Major
Harrassment can begin when a PM's personal qualities are lacking
• Rupert Cornwell: Burden of sending men to their deaths
The more Barack Obama thinks about Afghanistan, the more intractable the problem becomes
• Brian Viner: Great British sporting events
The FA Cup final, Wimbledon, the Ashes and the Grand National are woven into our culture
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