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Let voters decide aid projects, say Tories

'X Factor'-style contest will determine where overseas aid money goes

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Minister warns Brown over cutbacks

Monday, 13 July 2009

Lord Adonis has said he will not accept sacrifice of £8bn high-speed rail line amid pressure on public finances.

Deadly toll in Afghanistan heaps pressure on Brown

Monday, 13 July 2009

Three 18-year-olds on their first tour of duty named among the six killed on bloodiest day of fighting against Taliban

Brown's secret plan to cut Afghanistan force by 1,500

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Ministers are secretly planning to cut the number of British troops in Afghanistan, at a time when defence chiefs are appealing for thousands more reinforcements to meet the deadly threat from the resurgent Taliban.

The blame game: Will Tory leader's PR chief survive?

Sunday, 12 July 2009

At the heart of Fleet Street's phone-tap affair lie some serious allegations. David Randall disentangles the conflicting claims

Councils blame supermarkets for £1.8bn cost of excess packaging

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Supermarkets were blamed yesterday for wasteful packaging, adding an estimated £1.8bn to council tax bills.

Brown says Afghanistan strategy is succeeding

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Gordon Brown today insisted Britain's strategy in Afghanistan was succeeding, despite the bloody fighting which has seen the eight soldiers killed in 24 hours.

Ashcroft to be banned from giving more money to Tories

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Straw backs change in law that would deprive Conservative Party of vital source of funding

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

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.