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Brown wins big Commons victory for vote reform
Labour unites as Tories fail to block referendum on AV system.
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'Cameron's cutie' wins constituency catfight
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
David Cameron had to put aside all possible affairs of state yesterday to sort out a catfight that threatened to rip one of his constituency parties apart.
Peers escape overnight allowance punishment
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
House of Lords authorities moved yesterday to protect peers who claim overnight allowances of £174 a night for staying in London even though they have homes in the capital.
BBC pays £229m a year in salaries for stars
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
The BBC spent £54m on its top-earning stars but their salaries accounted for just 1.6 per cent of the £3.6bn annual licence fee income, according to figures released yesterday.
Forget cuts and keep spending, Brown told
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Fiscal stimulus is more important than reducing deficit, says Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
Commons backs referendum on election reform new
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
A referendum on changing the way MPs are elected will be held by October next year under Government plans passed by the Commons tonight.
Watchdog investigates Labour peer's expenses
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Former Labour chairman has expense claims referred to House of Lords Sub-Committee on Lords' Interests.
PM faces Labour revolt over vote reform
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Gordon Brown is braced for a Labour rebellion today against moves to scrap the first-past-the-post voting system.
Labour broke privacy rules with phone campaign
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Labour breached privacy rules by making unsolicited automated phone calls to almost half a million people without their consent, the Information Commissioner's Office ruled today.
Government forms civilian disaster response group
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
British construction experts are helping rebuild prisons in disaster-struck Haiti as part of a new aid network launched by the Government today.
Blair attacks his critics' tendency to 'conspiracy theories'
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Former Prime Minister takes swipe at Iraq Inquiry in TV interview with US Republican
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PM's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism
• Mark Steel: They believed what suited them, and ignored what didn't
Iraq evidence was collected only to back a decision already made
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