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Real-terms cut in EU budget urged
Monday 29 October 2012
David Cameron is facing a fresh mutiny over Europe after Tory backbenchers and Labour demanded a real-terms cut in the EU budget.
Douglas Alexander: We helped free Libya, but our job's not over
Sunday 04 September 2011
Even if Gaddafi is no longer in charge, Libyans have to learn the difference between taking a city and running a country
Labour joins protest at £100bn EU budget rise
Friday 01 July 2011
Plans for the European Union's budget to be increased by £100bn were condemned by both the right and left in the UK.
Shadow play: Who's that Labour frontbencher?
Thursday 30 June 2011
The public is struggling to recognise the Opposition's big beasts
Video: Alexander on defence spending
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander calls for the Government's Strategic Defence Spending Review to be reopened.
Douglas Alexander: 'We have to offer a better tomorrow, not a better yesterday'
Sunday 29 May 2011
After 13 years in a ruling party, the shadow Foreign Secretary hates life in opposition. If Labour is to win next time, he tells Matt Chorley, it must do more than just kick the Lib Dems
Obama's tip to Miliband: To win, you must be upbeat
Sunday 29 May 2011
US President tells Labour leader that he has to offer voters an optimistic vision of Britain
Government attacks EU budget rise
Wednesday 20 April 2011
The Government has criticised an inflation-busting EU budget rise in the face of UK demands for a freeze in line with national austerity measures.
Steve Richards: The two Eds are facing an open goal, but scoring won't be easy
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Soon enough, Miliband and Balls will have to decide on big questions relating to tax and spend, and the size of the state, in the context of deep cuts in public spending
Hague forced to accept blame for 'embarrassing' failed SAS mission
Tuesday 08 March 2011
Amid mounting criticism of his handling of the Libyan crisis, William Hague yesterday had to accept the blame for a bungled SAS mission that the opposition called an "embarrassment" that could have led to tragedy.
Can it really be that hard to submit an expenses claim?
Friday 04 February 2011
Oliver Wright meets Ipsa boss Andrew McDonald – and puts his own receipts through the system
Afghan rebuilding effort in chaos, says damning report
Sunday 30 January 2011
Ed Miliband makes his first visit to Kabul as a new assessment is made of reconstruction programme
Mary Ann Sieghart: Ed Balls will be a disaster for Labour
Monday 24 January 2011
His problem is mainly one of arrogance. Like Gordon Brown, he believes he's superior to almost everyone
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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