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Aaron Murin-Heath | Vote Pirate Party
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Peter Hoskin | Osborne steps up his game
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Henry Macrory | Digby Jones: MPs who enter cabinet should resign from Unite
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Union urges BA chairman to step in
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Union boss attacks BA ‘spin’ of more than 1,000 staff breaking strike
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James Macintyre | Did Hague know Ashcroft was non-dom for years not "months"?
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Guido Fawkes | How to Sting Greedy MPs
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Union urges BA chairman to step in
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James Macintyre | Oi, Samanfa, leave it aht!
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Jim Pickard | Stephen Byers, National Express and the East Coast rail franchise
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Benedict Brogan | Has Saint Vince oversold himself?
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James Macintyre | Tories 'airbrush' black candidates from campaign literature
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Brian Taylor (BBC News) | Money and choice
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Richard Murphy | Why is this man still allowed to practice?
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Tom Harris MP | My investigation into anti-Tory bias at the Beeb
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Julian Brazier, Member of Parliament for Canterbury | Labour are failing to deliver road improvements
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74 arrests in demo clash
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Benedict Brogan | His willingness to dump Alistair Darling speaks volumes about Gordon Brown
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Norman Tebbit | The trade unions may have won this election for the Tories
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Jim Pickard | Brown’s enemies laid low by lobbying allegations
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Paul Waugh | A big thanks to @tobyhelm for his kind wds in Observer's Top Political Bloggers ...
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Kevin Maguire | Who'd get in the back of his cab? Byers selling nauseating NuLab greed. Potpouri...
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Will Straw | Tory race row in east London
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Peter Hoskin | Dirty money and dirtier politics
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Guido Fawkes | Lobbyists are the Scum of Democracy
- 10:59
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Toby Young | The election campaign is like a second-division football match
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Iain Dale | Outrageous, I Say!
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Charlie Whelan | Mail on Sunday update. I am 'More Monarch of the Glen than Red Robbo' Thanks cha...
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Cristina Odone | Quotas for women scientists will produce second-rate science
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The Orange Party | Taxi To Westminster? MPs On The Take
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It's our turn to fight for the Gurkhas
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy | Alistair Darling tells business : for goodness sake you don't need a lobbyist. I...
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Matthew Weaver | BA strike day two - live updates
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Sunder Katwala | Not-Lord Ashcroft
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- MPs caught in lobbying sting
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Labour has promised a crackdown on lobbying by ex-ministers after some of its senior MPs were filmed by Channel 4's Dispatches programme apparently offering their services for cash. Foreign secretary David Miliband said he was "appalled" by the allegations.
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- Woodley appeals to BA board
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The strike by British Airways cabin crew has entered its second day, with both sides claiming that they have advantage. Unite joint-general secretary Tony Woodley has reportedly appealed to the BA chairman and board for help in ending the dispute.
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- Darling rules out 'giveaway' Budget
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Alistair Darling has ruled out a "giveaway Budget". A £1bn fund to create investment in green transport and energy projects and extra help for the long-term unemployed, as well as a rise in fuel duty, are expected to feature in Wednesday's announcement. This morning he said that the national mood would not stomach budget "sweeteners", and promised a "workman-like" budget. He said a rise in the level of VAT was not on the table.
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- FCO exchange rate move attacked
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The decision to stop protecting the foreign office budget from exchange rate changes has risked its efficiency, the foreign affairs committee have said. The fall in sterling's value is said to have led to cuts in embassies around the world.
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- Tory lead at 6 and 7
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An ICM poll for the News of the World has shown a narrowing of the Conservative lead to 6 points. The Conservatives are on 38% (-2), Labour 32 (+1) and the Liberal Democrats 19% (-1). Meanwhile, the YouGov tracker for the Sunday Times shows the Tory lead increasing to 7%.
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- Charge after UAF/EDL clashes
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Unite Against Fascism joint secretary Weyman Bennett has been charged with conspiracy to organise violent disorder after clashes between his organisation and the English Defence League in Bolton yesterday.
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- Cable 'in talks with treasury'
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Vince Cable has held talks with a top official at the Treasury about the Liberal Democrats' economic policies – and declared himself willing to serve as chancellor after the next election, according to The Observer.
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- Balls braced for teacher battle
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Schools secretary Ed Balls is facing a battle with teachers over plans to introduce a "licence to teach" which would make them undergo regular check-ups to ensure they are fit to teach.
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- IMF warns developed nations over deficits
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The IMF has warned developed countries with big budget deficits that they must prepare public opinion for cuts that will need to begin next year. John Lipsky, the No. 2 official at the IMF said the scale of adjustment was so vast that it would have to come through higher taxes and cutting back on benefits and spending.
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- Former Gurkhas 'betrayed'
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A Sunday Mirror investigation has found that many ex Gurkha soldiers are not living the life they expected in Britain, following last year's settlement rights victory.
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- Postal voting may disenfranchise troops
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The government is considering electronic voting for British forces overseas as weaknesses in the postal voting system has led to concerns that thousands of troops will be disenfranchised. However, the new system would not be in place in time for the forthcoming election.
Selected Sources- Byrne driver quits in wallet row
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Liam Byrne's driver has quit, according to the Mail on Sunday, after a row over the treasury minister's wallet.
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- Brown 'exaggerated' aid for business
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Gordon Brown overstated the number of businesses helped by the government during the recession, reports the Sunday Times. He claimed during PMQs that 300,000 businesses had benefited from staggered tax initiatives, while the business minister Pat McFadden said the number was actually 168,000.
Selected Sources- Mrs Clegg puts children first
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Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, wife of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will reveal in an interview to be broadcast on ITV tonight that she is not a "political wife" and that she will not place campaigning ahead of her career as a lawyer and raising a family.
Selected Sources- Harry Potter backs Clegg
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Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is set to play a more active role promoting the Lib Dems to young voters, according to reports.
Selected Sources- Labour donor could face police inquiry
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Police are considering launching a "cash for favours" investigation into Labour donor Willie Haughey after he was awarded public sector contracts worth £20 million. This follows allegations that he was awarded them unfairly while Steven Purcell was head of Glasgow city council.
Selected Sources- Britain faces fines over pollution
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The Independent on Sunday reports that Britain faces up to £300m in fines after failing to meet EU pollution targets
Selected Sources- Tories in new airbrushing row
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The Conservatives have been accused of omitting pictures of non-white election candidates from campaign literature in areas where they are fighting the BNP.
Selected Sources- Virgin targets RBS
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Virgin Money has hired a financial adviser to make a first round bid for the Royal Bank of Scotland's 320 branches by the April 6 deadline set by the bank.
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- Cameron backs bank levy
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David Cameron told supporters in London on Saturday that the Conservatives would back a US-style levy on banks to ensure that taxpayers are repaid in full for bailing them out. He announced a raft of measures to protect against what he called powerful "vested interests".
Selected Sources- De Piero selected for Labour
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Former GMTV political editor Gloria De Piero has been selected to stand for Labour in the Ashfield constituency in Nottinghamshire, where the party has a majority of more than 10,000.
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Wednesday 20th January 2010 | 10:20
There are still worrying trends behind headline jobless figures - May
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Ms May welcomed the quarterly fall in unemployment, but said there were worrying trends behind the headline jobless figure of 2.46 million.
The government was still not doing enough to help the young and long-term unemployed and a Tory government would go further, she said.
"Despite the welcome news of this fall, we're not out of the woods yet," she said.
"The number of people who have been long-term unemployed is rising."
Ms May said the headline rate did not include some people out of work who wanted to work.
She added: "We've seen more people kept in work but on a part-time basis ... and therefore not hitting the unemployment figures."
The government needed to do more to help tackle youth unemployment, Ms May also said.
"Crucially what is different is you have to look, when the government talks about things, at what is actually being delivered on the ground," she said
"Their young persons' guarantee doesn't fully kick in for 10 months."
10:40 BBC News
Speaking later, Ms May urged the government to start paying down the UK's fiscal deficit in order to avoid a threat to the economic recovery and to jobs.
"The most crucial issue in relation to public spending is actually having a credible plan to deal with the public deficit," she said.
"If we don't have a credible plan to deal with the deficit then sadly it's going to threaten the recovery and threaten jobs."
Munir Hussain judgement
Ms May also responded to a Court of Appeal judgement which released Businessman Munir Hussain, who had been jailed for attacking an intruder in his home.
"Well obviously I've only seen the headline, I haven't seen the sort of detail of it," she said, but added that the Conservative party's proposals would redress an "imbalance" between victims of crime and criminals.
"The policy thrust is to make sure victims do not feel they're the ones who are going to end up in the dock."
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