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Friday 05 July 2013
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Andy McSmith's Diary: They’ve got Leveson on the rack – but at least he’s not been locked up by the Serjeant at Arms
Friday 28 June 2013
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Eric Pickles' Communities Department - charged with getting local council budgets under control - fined for £217m unauthorised overdraft
Friday 28 June 2013
Margaret Hodge describes department finances as 'a shocking example of incompetence'
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Thursday 27 June 2013
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Department-by-department - the winners and losers
Wednesday 26 June 2013
A comprehensive guide to spending cuts across Whitehall
Matthew Norman on Monday: Chips are down as spudlord takes aim at Cameron
Sunday 09 June 2013
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Flood of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants 'unlikely', says report
Friday 05 April 2013
Analysis also casts doubt on estimates from Ukip and Tories suggesting hundreds of thousands will be on their way to Britain
Eric Pickles condemns 'under-the counter pay-offs' as £14m bill for gagging orders for 5,000 axed civil servants is revealed
Wednesday 03 April 2013
200 staff in Whitehall and 4,562 in local authorities signed 'compromise agreements'
'Union of Ministers' rebel against yet more budget cuts
Thursday 28 March 2013
MoD has been told to find savings of five per cent
Margareta Pagano: This helping hand on homes is sheer lunacy
Sunday 24 March 2013
George Osborne has failed to realise that building affordable houses is the way to solve would-be buyers' problems – and boost the economy too
A flood of immigrants? More like a trickle says Whitehall research into end of restrictions for Romanians and Bulgarians
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Just a trickle of Romanians and Bulgarians could come to Britain when restrictions on them living and working in this country are lifted at the end of the year, previously unpublicised Whitehall research suggested tonight.
Er... why? Birmingham council wheelie bin survey asks: Are you gay, straight or bisexual?
Tuesday 19 March 2013
A council survey on wheelie bins which asked residents about their sexual orientation has been branded a waste of taxpayers' money by politicians.
David Cameron reaffirms urgency of deficit reduction
Wednesday 27 February 2013
David Cameron has said that the Government needs to go “further and faster” to bring down the deficit after the loss of Britain’s coveted AAA credit rating.
Cabinet ordered to 'double' efforts to kickstart growth
Tuesday 26 February 2013
David Cameron and George Osborne have ordered ministers to do more to kickstart growth amid a Cabinet “blame game” about Britain’s flatlining economy.
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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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