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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 Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers
3 Female Red Arrow is cleared for take-off
4 Victory for The Independent as secret court opens its doors
5 Worldwide record-breaking mania strikes
6 'Slimline' Queen's Speech to push financial reform
7 Justin Fenton in London: Police think ignorance of crime is bliss
8 Man sacked for belief in psychics backed by judge (but, of course, he knew that would happen)
9 Ex-ministers call for vote on war in Afghanistan
11 Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?
12 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
13 Justin Fenton: 'Disputes are pettier than in Baltimore'
14 Brown details tighter immigration rules
15 Justin Fenton in London: Britain's use of DNA is light years ahead
Emailed
1 Police and Tube firm at odds over CCTV footage of innocent Brazilian's shooting
2 Beckham reveals his battle with obsessive disorder
3 Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers
4 Justin Fenton in Lambeth: Keeping children out of the gangs' clutches
5 Silence marks passing of WWI generation
6 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
7 Three more government drugs advisers quit
8 Meet Britain's richest family
9 Biosecurity breach would be 'body blow', say farmers
10 Search for bodies continues in temperatures of 140F
11 The city that looks and smells like a landfill site
12 Blair tells Tehran: 'Stay out of our business in Iraq'
13 Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
14 Army chief accused of lying about Britain's readiness for Iraq war
Commented
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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