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The Guardian:
Gordon Brown and other leading ministers face the threat of having their official meetings made public knowledge after the government finally dropped its resistance to a three-and-a-half-year campaign by an MP under freedom of information legislation.The Cabinet Office has decided not to appeal against the decision by an in (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Vincent Cable in the Independent says the government's reliance on means-testing amounts to a policy of "confiscating savings from the poor".Frank Field, on his blog, says he feels "deep unease about the government's strategy to counter what is euphemistically called a recession".Meanwhile, Sunder Katwala at Next Left expla (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Hopes of big cuts in household energy bills faded yesterday as traders drove up UK prices by exporting gas to fill a growing shortage across Europe.Despite freezing temperatures and rising demand in Britain, traders switched from importing to exporting gas through an interconnector pipeline to continental Europe as a growin (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Society:
The recent complaint by Sir Michael Scholar, Head of the UK Statistics Authority, about the publication by the Home Office of "selective" crime statistics relating to knife crime was both welcome and long overdue. But Scholar will have to be braver still if the crime statistics are to become respectable and public trust ear (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Philip Cowley, the parliamentary revolts supremo, has done it again. A rare example of an academic with an eye for a news story, with exquisite timing Cowley has written an essay about the Tory parliamentary party, which has gone up on the ConservativeHome website today. And it reveals that Kenneth Clarke is top of the list (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, today unveiled a reshuffle of his frontbench team which makes good his unguarded threat to remove the leftwinger Steve Webb from the key climate change post.In a reshuffle designed to deliver the party's team for the next general election, Webb goes from shadowing climate change and (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Tony Blair today urged world leaders to look at the economic crisis as an opportunity to create a better future for all as he called for greater investment in energy, science, technology and education.The former prime minister, who is co-chairing a two-day conference in Paris on the future of global finances, said that the (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Scottish ministers are close to agreeing a crucial deal with the Green party to support next year's budget, after further discussions over the Greens' bid for a £1bn energy efficiency programme.Senior Scottish government officials said they are optimistic about securing the votes of both Green party MSPs in the Holyrood par (Read More)
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