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Ministers in minority governments live from day to day, hoping to find the right moment to call the general election that will give them a decisive majority but fearing that it will be forced on them at a time when their unp (Read More)
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There is a lot of sense in Tory thinking but they must do more to close the gap between rich and poorAlthough the next election sometimes seems like a choice between root canal work and an operation for haemorrhoids, I do at (Read More)
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A Tory landslide seemed inevitable at the next general election. But recent soundings show a different trend as Labour benefits from optimism about the economyAlastair Campbell is not normally one to trash the state of the na (Read More)
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With today's poll suggesting a shrinking Tory lead, David Cameron could find himself governing with a tiny majority or none at allA spectre is stalking the corridors of Westminster, the spectre of a hung parliament. The prosp (Read More)
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Customers of Harlequin Property express anxiety about delayed holiday home developments on Barbados, St Vincent, St Lucia and Dominican Republic, says Graham NorwoodBuyers of Caribbean holiday homes from a British developer f (Read More)
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Chance of hung parliament as Conservative lead falls to 6%Labour's hopes of avoiding a general election rout at the hands of David Cameron's Tories will be boosted today as a new poll shows a sharp fall in the Conservatives' (Read More)
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The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureateFirst let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where a (Read More)
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The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureateFirst let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where a (Read More)
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Shadow foreign secretary says French newspapers reported peer got foreign minister post in return for assurance that French MEP would become commission vice-presidentWilliam Hague today suggested the appointment of the Britis (Read More)
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The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamberIs it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons, drove out those atmospheric, (Read More)
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Tory David Curry stood down as head of standards and privileges committee pending inquiry into second home claimsThe Tory MP in charge of the Commons standards and privileges committee, who stood down pending an inquiry into (Read More)
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British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and yearsEurope's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic (Read More)
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The expenses scandal claimed its latest victim last night when the Tory MP in charge of the Commons standards and privileges committee stood down pending an inquiry into his second home allowance claims.David Curry quit as ch (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
Following on from the story earlier today about Lord Mandelson's plans to get an amendment made to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) of 1988 that would allow him - or any future secretary of state for industry - t (Read More)
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An arts establishment filled by New Labour supporters is starting to court Team CameronWhen the culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, delivered a speech this month asking New Labour- supporting "luvvies" to rally to the defence o (Read More)
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Health secretary Andy Burnham says it is gutter politics to claim benefits for pensioners with disabilities will be cutThe government accused the Tories of "scaremongering" and "gutter politics" today for refusing to support (Read More)
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Labour says the Conservatives are 'completely wrong' to claim some pensioners could lose up to £3,400 a year from the government's plan unveiled in the Queen's speechThe Conservatives were today accused of "scaremongering" af (Read More)
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Following Baroness Buscombe's pre-emptive response to a letter of complaint by bloggers - organised through the website LiberalConspiracy.org - the site's editor, Sunny Hundal, offers "a series of thoughts."You'll find them h (Read More)
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I sense growing detachment, alienation and indifference where the monarchy is concernedThe Westminster neighbourhood should be back to normal this morning after the Queen's golden coach and all those metal railings have been (Read More)
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Asda's saviour is known for his skill in engineering turnaroundsArchie Norman is the only FTSE 100 chairman to have sat in the Commons. The company in question was Asda, which was so troubled when he took it on in 1991 that h (Read More)