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3 October, 2008 |
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2 October, 2008 |
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24 November, 2008
Alistair Darling has taken his scalpel to the British economy in his Pre-Budget Report and sliced neatly a 2.5% chunk off the rate of VAT. It will cost £12.5 billion – which will have to be filled by yet more borrowing – and for what? |
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4 December, 2008
The arrest of Damian Green has prompted anguished cries of foul play and state persecution from the Tories, and not a little consternation among MPs on either side of the House. |
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The problem is that nobody seems to have really grasped what this story is about. |
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23 January, 2009
The return of Ken Clarke put the big beast among the pigeons, in both the parliamentary and the grass-roots Conservative Party. |
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So, for Cameron to have asked Mr Clarke to return to front bench politics, there must be a serious crisis on the front bench team. There is. |
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27 January, 2009
The BBC’s decision not to broadcast the DEC Gaza appeal not only received much more opprobrium in public and the wider media than that of the UK’s other major news channel, Sky News, to follow its lead. It also drew criticism from parliamentarians of all parties. Both are wrong. |
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21 April, 2009
The current Labour government has taken some of the boldest and bravest decisions of any post-war administration.
It has faced near-cataclysmic global economic meltdown with renewed self-belief and an unwavering determination to do the right thing. |
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And yet the public are tired of an increasingly tired-looking government. At this rate the only thing the Conservative Party need do to win the next election is sit on its hands, say nothing and do nothing – not difficult if you believe in nothing. |
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21 November, 2008 |