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Iain Dale | Frank Field Offers Himself as a Minister to Cameron
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Andrew Gilligan | Breaking news: Fundamentalist-linked council official resigns
Gary Gibbon | “Hurt” MPs prepare to say farewell to the Commons
Denis MacShane | Just been on Russian TV as Moscow media concerned about Tory alliance with Waffe...
Jon Craig | Fishing For Votes
BBC admits error - late and grudging again
David Nutt | The rush to criminalise could lead to more dangerous experimentation
Iain Dale | It woz the News of the World wot exposed Gordon's lie
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James Forsyth | The Chancellor's debate is an opportunity for Osborne
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Jim Pickard | Whelan accuses Tories of anti-union “witch hunt”
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Iain Dale | Villiers invented the line which floored Brown
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Kevin Maguire | What Next for Cameron - Immigration?
Iain Dale | Clare Moody's Real Role in Number Ten
Nick Robinson (The Reporters) | Is Whelan Labour's Ashcroft?
Dan Milmo | BA cabin crew look certain to strike after airline refuses to rule out sackings
Jon Bernstein | What David Cameron used to think about budget deficits
Mike Smithson | Labour still down at 26pc with Angus Reid
BA adds more flights during strike
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Norman Tebbit | The ugly multiculturalist mob baying for the blood of Trevor Phillips
Iain Dale | Could the Government Office for London Be Abolished?
Mark Wallace | Fisking the UNISON dinosaurs
Faisal Islam | A good time to talk economics
Iain Dale | Cameron Pulverised Brown at PMQs
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Fraser Nelson | Piers for Parliament?
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Fabian Hamilton | Cluster Munitions Bill Second Reading just passed without a vote in the Commons....
Denis MacShane | 1300 local papers to shut in next 3 years says NUJ leader Jeremy Dear at big Com...
Simon Hughes | Being a constituency MP | Simon Hughes
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Ged Carroll | Digital Economy Bill: the final instalment
Alex Barker | Past elections and stock market jitters
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Lloyd Evans | Miracle at SW1
Tim Montgomerie | It appears that the only UK MEPs not to have published their expenses are from t...
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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Laura Kuenssberg | Stats from Commons library show defence spending hit lowest share of GDP since 1...
John Street | Dave’s dodgy pals
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Richard Murphy | Lehman – how it got round the rules by using consolidation journals
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Mike Smithson | Will this Labour effort persuade Lib Dems to switch?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy | C4 to host debate between Darling, Osborne & Cable 29 March
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David Blackburn | Two blasts from the past
Ed Vaizey | Archie Norman said to be considering u-turn on ITV's decision to withdraw from r...
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Thought John Bercow did well today. Which is more than can be said for Gordon Br...
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Jon Craig | What Else Will Brown Now Admit?
Steve Busfield | Lawyers for Media Standards: Who are they?
George Eaton | Is a hung parliament best for the left?
Laura Kuenssberg | Eric Pickles writing to govt complaining guidance for MP candidates doesn't requ...
Mark Kleinman | Berndt Toast At Lloyds?
Mark Devenport (BBC News) | Church and State
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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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The latest preliminary results for the Iraq election race show that former prime minister Iyad Allawi has edged past Nuri al-Maliki the current prime minister for the first time, although the incumbent has made accusations of fraud.
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The Government has been accused of delaying the publication of youth crime figures until after the election, according to The Independent.
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More than 230 MPs have 'flipped' the second home on which they claim expenses, according to the Daily Mail.
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A personal intervention from Gordon Brown has led to the delay in EU discussions on new regulations on hedge funds.
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The Conservatives are struggling to win over voters in the North, according to poll analysis by the Financial Times.
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Leading universities should be free to set tuition fees in return for a limit on Government teaching grants, Lord Patten has said.
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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to keep monetary policy unchanged in March, according to the minutes of the committee's March meeting published today.
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In an interview with the Telegraph the shadow chancellor has issued a stark warning that the Conservative leadership must "up the energy levels" if the party hopes to "take the fight to Labour" and get elected this year.
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Speaker John Bercow reprimanded Conservative MP Mark Pritchard in the Commons yesterday after Pritchard claimed that Bercow had been "prompted" by a government minister into rebuking him.
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MPs from the northern Ireland affairs committee have expressed "bitter disappointment" at the government's refusal to release further intelligence on the Omagh bombing, despite repeated requests.
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Liam Byrne yesterday admitted that tax rises could not be ruled out.
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Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, told members of the Treasury Committee that it would be a "big mistake" to allow banking reform to stifle a bank's right to fail.
"They make mistakes from time to time and take on too much risk but the rules of a market economy mean that it is allowed to fail, and people need to know that in advance."
Although Mr King accepted that there was a serious need to protect utility banking, he stressed the need to "liberate" investment banking and said that regulators could be ones to warn against risk-taking.
"If regulators were that clever we could let them run the banks. Things do go wrong and important thing is to allow people taking those risks to lose."
His comments were in reference to the publication of November's inflation report, in which HBOS and RBS were also named as banks who had received - and paid back - emergency loans from the Bank of England.
Mr King predicted a rise in inflation rates from the current rate of 1.5%, due to high petrol prices and reversing last year's VAT cut, but hoped it would stay close to the 2% target.
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