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Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?
Mandelson attack shines spotlight on Tory leader's links with media mogul.
Inside UK Politics
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
Labour confident of success in by-election
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Party expects to beat SNP in Glasgow just 16 months after heavy loss in city
Mandelson to become Government's 'TV face'
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Lord Mandelson will become the "public face" of the Government by giving regular televised press conferences as it tries to sharpen its message in the run-up to the general election.
Britain offers land for Cyprus reunification
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The UK would give up tracts of its military bases in Cyprus if reunification talks are successful, Gordon Brown said yesterday.
Independent Live: Is Politics in Crisis? new
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Independent Live, our series of free debates featuring commentators from The Independent, returned in Brighton for a debate on the state of politics in the UK.
Cameron: 'Big society' is the solution to poverty
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Conservative leader accuses Labour of fostering a centralising bureaucracy.
Miliband picks election battle over EU role
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Foreign Secretary David Miliband firmly ruled himself out of contention for the role of European foreign minister today, saying he wanted to "stay and fight" the general election.
Three more government drugs advisers quit
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Alan Johnson failed in an attempt to defuse the damaging row between the Government and Britain's top scientists after three more of his drugs advisers resigned last night.
Andrew Grice: A new Gordon Brown?
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
David Cameron went on the attack over youth unemployment at Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon.
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1 Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?
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3 Teenage attacker behind bars after second child rape
4 Crackdown! Police officers mount huge drug swoop
5 Wife says noisy sex conviction breaches rights
6 Miliband picks election battle over EU role
7 Labour confident of success in by-election
8 Afghan war is bad for security, voters say
9 Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
10 Canoe death fraudster must repay £591,000
11 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
12 Ex-ministers call for vote on war in Afghanistan
13 Ministers cancel 'Big Brother' database
14 'Big society' is the solution to poverty, declares Cameron
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1 I understand the pain of losing a child, says Brown
2 Filipino whose wife died after blunder by NHS to be deported
3 Retired police dogs to get pensions
4 Legal system 'treats blacks more harshly'
5 Northern Ireland: A land still troubled by its past
6 32 years on, man accused of Capt. Nairac's murder
7 Meet Britain's richest family
8 'Big society' is the solution to poverty, declares Cameron
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4US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
5Mark Steel: You almost have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown
6How a single bullet halted Taliban attack
7Pound under new attack as agency says it will cut UK's credit rating
8Tensions grow as Chavez masses troops on border
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