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  • editor | Exclusive interview with Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles MP

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    • 23:14
  • Iain Dale | How to Apologise (Are You Reading this, Gordon?)

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    • 22:59
  • Tom Harris MP | Some employees of a company are to strike. World at an end, predicts Cameron.

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    • 22:53
  • Fraser Nelson | The cost of Brown's propaganda splurge

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    • 22:27
  • Sun's daily poll March 18

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    • 22:16
  • Charlie Whelan | So union basing don't work. You gov tracker has Tory lead down to just 4 points

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    • 22:07
  • Anthony Wells | YouGov Daily Figures – 36/32/20

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    • 22:03
  • Mike Smithson | But the Tories drop a point in the daily poll

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    • 22:02
  • Tim Montgomerie | YouGov: Con 36% (-1), Lab 32% (unchanged), LD 20% (+1%)

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    • 22:00
  • Patrick Wintour | Brown advisers want the PM to strike an optimistic tone

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    • 21:23
  • lucy manning | Charlie Whelan on ITV News at Ten on BA strike "Its not about embarrassing the P...

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    • 21:09
  • Kipper Williams on Mandelson's low-carbon strategy

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  • Seumas Milne | An assault on unions is an attack on democracy itself | Seumas Milne

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    • 21:00
  • Tony Blair: not a union shoehorn

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    • 20:48
  • How can London Citizens go National?

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    • 20:39
  • In a brash and brutal general election, the buccaneering spirit will prevail

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    • 20:39
  • In a brash and brutal general election, the buccaneering spirit will prevail

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    • 20:37
  • Rumbold | Conservative calls for harsher measures against teenage mothers

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    • 20:34
  • Timothy Garton Ash | A messiah is not enough. To reshape t'world the US must first reform itself | Ti...

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  • Iain Dale | Frank Field Offers Himself as a Minister to Cameron

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  • Tim Horton | This Lib Dem myth | Tim Horton

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  • James Forsyth | The Tories' growing mood of quiet confidence

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    • 19:46
  • FactCheck | More small businesses than last year?

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    • 19:18
  • Christopher Hope | After defence spending, Gordon Brown gets it wrong again – quoting from the Tele...

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    • 19:01
  • Andrew Gilligan | Breaking news: Fundamentalist-linked council official resigns

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  • Gary Gibbon | “Hurt” MPs prepare to say farewell to the Commons

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    • 18:46
  • Denis MacShane | Just been on Russian TV as Moscow media concerned about Tory alliance with Waffe...

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  • Jon Craig | Fishing For Votes

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    • 18:33
  • BBC admits error - late and grudging again

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    • 18:30
  • David Nutt | The rush to criminalise could lead to more dangerous experimentation

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    • 18:30
  • Iain Dale | It woz the News of the World wot exposed Gordon's lie

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    • 18:26
  • Sally Bercow | Tale of 2 relationships: Labour with Unite =100% transparent. Tories' with Ashcr...

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  • James Forsyth | The Chancellor's debate is an opportunity for Osborne

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    • 18:02
  • lucy manning | Just interviewed charlie whelan who says one strike wont lose an election and de...

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  • Jim Pickard | Whelan accuses Tories of anti-union “witch hunt”

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  • freethinkingeconomist | Oh sterling doommongers, where are ye?

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    • 17:57
  • Lobbydog | It is an extra-vaz-ganza

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  • Henry Macrory | Whelan on Mandy: People get upset and they get out of their pram a bit and they ...

  • Telegraph Opinion | How about a Budget with a bit of honesty?

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    • 17:44
  • guidofawkes | Lib Dem Choir Clanger

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    • 17:39
  • Why are financial lobbyists so rude?

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    • 17:36
  • sue | On and On

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    • 17:35
  • Iain Dale | Villiers invented the line which floored Brown

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  • Jim Jepps | What are they on?

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    • 17:27
  • Will Straw | Charlie Whelan: Pickles' trade union witch-hunt is frightening

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    • 17:24
  • James Kirkup | Another day, another early finish for MPs

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    • 17:11
  • Iain Dale | UNITE pays salaries of many Labour staffers

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  • ConservativeHome | Tories 13% ahead in Angus Reid poll

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    • 16:50
  • @TimMontgomerie do you "hate" 3,000 SureStart centres,44000 more doctors,a doubl...

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  • Henry Macrory | Charlie Whelan has just admitted on BBC News Channel that 'Unite pays the salari...

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    • 16:48
  • Laura Kuenssberg | Charlie Whelan tells us it is 'insulting' to be described as Labour's Lord Ashcr...

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    • 16:46
  • Peter Hoskin | Will Nick Griffin become a victim of his own expense claims?

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    • 16:46
  • Tim Montgomerie | I don't talk down Britain @BevaniteEllie, but I hate the massive damage that you...

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    • 16:41
  • Kevin Maguire | What Next for Cameron - Immigration?

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  • Iain Dale | Clare Moody's Real Role in Number Ten

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  • Nick Robinson (The Reporters) | Is Whelan Labour's Ashcroft?

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    • 16:35
  • Dan Milmo | BA cabin crew look certain to strike after airline refuses to rule out sackings

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  • Jon Bernstein | What David Cameron used to think about budget deficits

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  • Mike Smithson | Labour still down at 26pc with Angus Reid

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  • BA adds more flights during strike

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  • guidofawkes | Gordon Sees the Light

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  • Norman Tebbit | The ugly multiculturalist mob baying for the blood of Trevor Phillips

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  • Iain Dale | Could the Government Office for London Be Abolished?

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  • Mark Wallace | Fisking the UNISON dinosaurs

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  • Faisal Islam | A good time to talk economics

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  • Iain Dale | Cameron Pulverised Brown at PMQs

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  • Next Left | Is this what you want to fight the election on?

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  • Fraser Nelson | Piers for Parliament?

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    • 15:54
  • Chris Bryant | Seems all parties will support cluster munitions prohibition bill. Though one To...

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  • Fabian Hamilton | Cluster Munitions Bill Second Reading just passed without a vote in the Commons....

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  • Denis MacShane | 1300 local papers to shut in next 3 years says NUJ leader Jeremy Dear at big Com...

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  • Simon Hughes | Being a constituency MP | Simon Hughes

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  • Contributor | Unemployment - What's Really Going On?

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  • Ged Carroll | Digital Economy Bill: the final instalment

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  • Alex Barker | Past elections and stock market jitters

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  • Alex Barker | Past elections and stock market jitters

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  • Lloyd Evans | Miracle at SW1

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  • Tim Montgomerie | It appears that the only UK MEPs not to have published their expenses are from t...

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    • 15:16
  • Kevin Maguire | Gutted. Just read Tory Unite dossier. Utter rubbish. I'm not in. Even @mirrorjam...

  • Damian Thompson | Gay adoption: a setback for Labour in its vicious war against the Churches

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    • 15:05
  • Social media politics: 5 inspiring case studies with Labour MPs and PPCs

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  • Laura Kuenssberg | Stats from Commons library show defence spending hit lowest share of GDP since 1...

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  • John Street | Dave’s dodgy pals

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  • Joey Jones | Joey's PMQs Breakdown

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  • The Orange Party | Porkie Brown Admits Lying to Chilcot

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  • Downing Street | http://twitpic.com/194xsv - The PM welcomes Siobhan and Sally from netmums for a...

  • Richard Murphy | Lehman – how it got round the rules by using consolidation journals

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  • John Rentoul | Politicians who use Twitter are wasting time and risking their reputations, says...

  • Political Scrapbook | Lord Ashcroft, won’t you buy us a Mercedes Benz?

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  • Guy Dammann | The delivery of justice | Guy Dammann

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  • James Macintyre | BA strike: can Brown call in a favour from his old friend?

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  • What Unite members think

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  • Mike Smithson | Will this Labour effort persuade Lib Dems to switch?

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    • 14:17
  • Krishnan Guru-Murthy | C4 to host debate between Darling, Osborne & Cable 29 March

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    • 14:17
  • Patrick | Misleading claims in Government climate ad

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  • matthewtaylor | Relax – you’re getting older every day

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  • David Blackburn | Two blasts from the past

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    • 13:55
  • Ed Vaizey | Archie Norman said to be considering u-turn on ITV's decision to withdraw from r...

  • Gaby Hinsliff | ..has michael gove had a word wi his old editors? @shout4surestart has useful li...

  • Daniel Hannan | Gordon Brown refuses to back the travelling public against the BA strikers

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  • John Redwood | Mr Brown does not seem to know his own banks

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  • Parents of teenager who may have died from Mephedrone give first TV intv 'it's a...

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  • Thought John Bercow did well today. Which is more than can be said for Gordon Br...

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    • 13:36
  • Matthew Sinclair | Good news in the employment statistics... if you're in the public sector

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    • 13:35
  • Brian Taylor (BBC News) | Sources of concern

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  • Mandelson was in favour of Tony Blair destroying his premiership

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  • Jon Craig | What Else Will Brown Now Admit?

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    • 13:29
  • Steve Busfield | Lawyers for Media Standards: Who are they?

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  • George Eaton | Is a hung parliament best for the left?

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  • Laura Kuenssberg | Eric Pickles writing to govt complaining guidance for MP candidates doesn't requ...

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  • Mark Kleinman | Berndt Toast At Lloyds?

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  • Mark Devenport (BBC News) | Church and State

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  • Cameron - back to the heir to Blair?

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  • Brown and Cameron in strike clash

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  • Julia Kollewe, Kathryn Hopkins | Gordon Brown given unexpected boost by fall in benefits claims

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    • 12:59
  • Gary Gibbon | PMQs: Brown on Unite and the BA dispute

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  • Unions' return is bad news for Brown

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  • Laura Kuenssberg | Margaret Beckett tells me the PM will be 'furious' that he had to admit defence ...

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  • Jane Merrick | david cameron's best pmqs performance for ages. he+osborne v hyped up. dc even w...

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    • 12:39
  • George Pitcher | Churches should say that making money is holy – it's screwing up that isn't

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  • Tal-Anna Szlenski | The role of independent MPs in Parliament

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  • Michael White | PMQs# this week's score. Dogged GB 3. Flashy Dave 3. Cleggy 2.

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    • 12:32
  • Simon Rogers | 10 things you didn't know about the unemployment statistics

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    • 12:31
  • Dylan Sharpe | Council bans ice cream vans from outside schools

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  • Gordon Brown admits: I was wrong on defence spending

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    • 12:26
  • Stephan Shakespeare | Attacks on YouGov are just plain silly

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  • James Macintyre | Nick Clegg cuts to the chase on party funding

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    • 12:25
  • Laura Kuenssberg | Clegg barracked by both sides for comparing labour union funding from Unite with...

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    • 12:25
  • Michael White | PMQs# Nick Winterton asks a pro manufacture question. He's always been an un...

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    • 12:23
  • Jon Snow | Merrill trader: story of the world that led to 2008 crash

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    • 12:22
  • Michael White | PMQs# john redwood asks what may be a smart question about RBS funds. But n...

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    • 12:21
  • Tom Harris MP | Cameron's returned to his reading again. #pmqs must irritate him by interrupting...

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  • Catherine Mayer | Strongest Clegg #pmqs ever, painting both main parties as opponents of transpare...

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    • 12:20
  • Afua Hirsch | When law firms exploit human rights | Afua Hirsch

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  • #pmqs Clegg claims Charlie and Lord Ashcroft are the same - well I've never seen...

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    • 12:17
  • Tom Harris MP | Ooh, cheeky Dave waving "goodbye" to GB across the Despatch Box. Not that he's a...

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    • 12:15
  • Sure Clegg will try to hit Tories with Ashcroft, following Cam attack on Kab as ...

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  • Laura Kuenssberg | Cameron asks again and again, if Brown backs BA staff who want to break strike-r...

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    • 12:14
  • channel4news | Cameron: "The Unite union picks (Labour) candidates, elects the leader, has spec...

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  • Michael White | PMQs# wholly owned Labour ? Why has no one mentioned AshCROFT ?

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  • George Pitcher | Thank God for Catholic adoption agencies

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  • Conservatives | Cameron: Following the Speaker's rebuke to Labour MPs: "Most of them are paid to...

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  • GB accuses him of opportunism. Suddenly like being in a time warp. Tories hittin...

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  • DeHavilland | Brown pulls out a Telegraph article claiming Cameron's been trying to woo the un...

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  • Conservatives | Cameron: It's back to the 1970s. We've got hand-wringing from a weak PM while co...

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  • Mark Wadsworth | Yeah, but I never said that...

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  • DeHavilland | Cameron claims Browns answer is weak #pmqs

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  • Michael White | PMQs# Dave notes quickly on to Unite and BA dispute. GB is pious. Keep talking...

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  • Catherine Mayer | #pmqs Cameron says this is first time he has seen Brown issue a correction

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    • 12:07
  • Cam does go on BA strike. Asks GB to clarify remarks on strike #pmqs

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  • James Kirkup | Gordon Brown: I was wrong about defence spending

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  • David Hughes | Ed Miliband doesn't seem to know what government is for

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    • 12:05
  • Michael White | PMQs# ah. GB has to admit error. Defence spending has not risen in real terms ev...

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    • 12:05
  • Phil Reynolds | Cameron risks politicising race

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  • Tom Harris MP | GB concedes defence spending in individual years did not rise in real terms, tho...

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  • Laura Kuenssberg | So will the Speaker allow questions about Lab party funding at PMQs if Conservat...

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    • 11:53
  • Michael White | PMQs are at noon. Unite or disunite ?

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    • 11:41
  • Is Kate Winslet's split more important than Michael Foot's funeral?

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  • LIVE: Prime Minister's questions

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  • Haroon Siddique | Prime minister's questions – live

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    • 11:28
  • Iain Dale | PMQs Preview

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    • 11:14
  • Michael White | Charlie Whelan and Unite: less to it than it seems| Michael White

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    • 11:10
  • Kevin Maguire | And is the Beast of Bolsover off? Better dodge him for a few weeks after writing...

  • Benedict Brogan | The Tories are revealing passion – and about time too

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    • 11:06
  • Simon Rogers | Unemployment statistics where you live: benefit claimants constituency by consti...

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    • 11:00
  • Toby Helm | David Cameron will attack Gordon Brown over Charlie Whelan at PMQs | Toby Helm

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    • 10:55
  • Dizzy | Bloody media coverage... by the way, have you read my book?

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    • 10:52
  • Mick Fealty | Obama’s healthcare deal to pass with a squeak….

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  • Charlie Whelan | @BBCLauraK What has the speaker done that is so bad Laura? Has he joined Unite?

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  • Foreign Office | David Miliband will launch the Annual Report on Human Rights later today - http:...

  • The Orange Party | Newspapers Splash On Failure, Fudge And Spin

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    • 10:40
  • David Blackburn | The Tories’ Unite strategy is paying unimagined dividends

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  • Mandelson backs nuclear industry with £80m loan

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    • 10:38
  • Mike Smithson | Will Cameron get pulled up if he raises UNITE’s funding?

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    • 10:37
  • BBC Daily Politics | The @daily politics wil be talking about the latest employment figures, Labour's...

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    • 10:33
  • Laura Kuenssberg | Anger at Speaker seems to grow - Tory backbencher tells the BBC he 'has to go' -...

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  • BBC Daily Politics | Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Theresa May and the Employment Minister Jim K...

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  • Eric Pickles | Will Gordon Brown instruct Labour candidates to take no money from Unite until t...

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    • 10:27
  • Iain Dale | I've just been stopped and searched in Whitehall. Clearly wearing a Loden coat i...

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    • 10:21
  • If unemployment is falling fairly quickly, are tax revenues increasing commensur...

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    • 09:58
  • James Lyons | Loving Country Life's guide to how animals will vote in the election "this time"

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    • 09:57
  • Melanie Phillips | Israel alone

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    • 09:57
  • Matthew Weaver | Mephedrone explained

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    • 09:53
  • UK jobless total falls, gives government pre-Election boost

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  • lucy manning | Mandelson on unemployment figures. . Recovery still fragile

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  • Newswire | Prosecute teenagers who have sex, says top Tory

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  • Guido Fawkes | Quote of the Day

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  • Peter Hoskin | For the workers?

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    • 09:05
  • lucy manning | On drug deaths. Mandleson Will take any action needed or justified. Government w...

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  • Will Straw | Politics Summary: Wednesday, March 17th

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  • Andrew Brown | Why Cardinal Brady must go | Andrew Brown

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  • Chris Bryant | Second Reading of the cluster munitions bill today - a really good piece of legi...

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  • Hadley Freeman | Politicians and their pasts | Hadley Freeman

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  • Martin Salter | Politicians who use Twitter are wasting time and risking their reputations

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    • 08:30
  • Tim Gatt | Shadow Home Sec Chris Grayling: "We think there is a very strong case for bannin...

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    • 08:29
  • LFAT | Three humiliating u-turns for Labour in just one day

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  • BBC Radio 4 Today | "Science is not uncertain - there are clear and very high likelihoods - but we s...

  • 8 in the morning, March 17th

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  • David Cameron | We'll change black Britain | David Cameron

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  • Daniel Hannan | European economic government is inevitable

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    • 07:49
  • Tim Montgomerie | Voters back Conservative policy that spending needs to be cut sooner, rather tha...

  • Mark Reckons | Lib Dem TV launches with an interview with Martin Tod

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    • 07:40
  • Telegraph Opinion | School children need sport, not fitness tests

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    • 07:19
  • The big debate on Sunrise - Re Strike BA say they have trained up replacement cr...

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  • Claude Carpentieri | Ashcroft and the unions

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Unemployment fell by 33,000 between November and January, according to new figures out this morning. The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance also fell.

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US transport union Teamsters have said they would not rule anything "in or out" when it comes to helping Unite in the BA strike. Earlier BA said they would operate more flights than originally planned during the strikes.

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Charlie Whelan, Unite's political director and a former Brown aide, has rejected comparisons with Lord Ashcroft. Unite's role in Labour's election campaign has been scrutinised by the Conservatives and a number of newspapers.

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The row over defence spending continues after the prime minister wrote to the Iraq inquiry to clarify that defence spending did not rise in real terms every year when he was chancellor, as he had claimed. General Lord Guthrie, who had originally claimed there were defence cuts, told the Times he was vindicated and that his critics were "wrong, intemperate and cheap."

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The Conservatives have announced plans for a system of temporary bans on "legal highs" amid growing concern over the use of mephedrone; Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said that the government would take "any action that is needed". The government's drugs advisory council has said they will advise on whether or not the drug should be banned on March 29.

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The dailyYouGov/Sun poll shows the Conservatives' poll lead down to 4 points. With the Tories on 36%, Labour are unchanged on 32 points and the Lib Dems are up on to 20 points. A new Angus Reid/Political Betting poll published this afternoon has the Conservative lead at 13 points.

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Two British soldiers yesterday died after an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirmed this morning. The soldiers were both from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, part of the Household Cavalry Regiment Battle Group.

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David Cameron challenged Gordon Brown to show "backbone" and say whether he would back BA workers who broke Unite picket lines in the event of a strike. The Prime Minister accused him of making a partisan issue out of an industrial relations issue. Nick Clegg said that Charlie Whelan and Lord Ashcroft were both "exactly the same" and criticised the failure of both parties to "clean up" party funding.

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It has been revealed that Tony Blair recieved money from a South Korean oil firm after the committee on business appointments overruled attempts by the former prime minister to keep the deal secret

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The government is considering asking companies, including RBS and Lloyds, to subsidise its ID card scheme.

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A Catholic adoption society has won a legal fight over legislation forcing it to consider homosexual couples as parents. Catholic Care launched the legal challenge under the Sexual Orientation Regulations act and will now be allowed to continue to discount homosexual couples.

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England's children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson has apologised to James Bulger's mother Denise Fergus over comments that her son's killers should not have been prosecuted because they were too young.

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Despite being made redundant from her post in January, Baroness Greenfield could be returned to the Royal Institution as a vote of no confidence was issued in the ruling that removed her.

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The leader of the Conservative party has pledged to alter Labour's "failure to address racial inequality" by opening up business opportunities to the black community, writing for the Guardian today.

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The Public Accounts Committee has found that benefit claimants owe £1.85bn in overpaid money, but the government is recovering less than £300m a year.

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A government campaign that used nursery rhymes to raise awareness of climate change has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for overstating the risk posed. Ed Miliband said he accepted the ruling but urged people to look at "the wider picture".

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The NHS should cut more than 30,000 hospital beds to save money and improve patient care, think-tank Reform has said.

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Three people have been arrested in Spain in connection with the kidnapping of Sahil Saeed. The five-year-old, who was kidnapped in Pakistan and found safe yesterday, is due to return to his home in Oldham today.

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The Public and Commercial Services Union has announced it will stage a strike on the day of the Budget, as it plan to step up its efforts to negotiate with the government after it intervened in the dispute between BA and Unite.

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A Royal Navy submarine has been sent to boost security around the Falkland Islands, according to The Sun.

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Defence and aid spending "not a question of either or" says Andrew Mitchell

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  • Andrew Mitchell MP
    • 13/07/09
    • Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow International Developme...
    • BBC News
Mr Mitchell said that it was not a question of choosing between the budgets for defence and international development, adding that the two departments would work much more closely under a Conservative government.

"I don't think that defence will face cuts, but it's not a question of either or, you have to do both," he said.

"The development effort in Afghanistan which hasn't always gone well and so to upgrade we need to have much closer coordination than we've had in the past," he added.

"We will have a national security council under a Conservative government which will ensure all these different departments and all these different activities are wired in closely together." View all On Air Today

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