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James Kirkup | The Treasury tells Gordon Brown: no giveaway Budget
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Jeremy Hunt | Why does high speed rail stop at Birmingham under Labour's plans?
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- Row over high speed rail plan
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The Conservatives have said it's a "mistake" that a high speed rail link unveiled today by the government does not run through Heathrow airport, but transport secretary Lord Adonis and the Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of creating an artificial political dispute out of the issue.
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- Charged MPs leave court after not guilty plea
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Three Labour MPs have left court having entered pleas of not guilty, and have been called to appear at Crown Court on March 30 after the judge claimed the case needed to be tested in a higher court. There were reports of drama in the courtroom as the MPs refused to enter the dock, claiming parliamentary privilege was being breached. Tory peer Lord Hanningfield is due at court later today.
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- Strikes anticipated as BA talks fold
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Strike action by British Airways staff is expected to take place after last night's efforts to reach an agreement collapsed, following weeks of talks between the airline and union Unite.
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- Straw meets Jamie Bulger's mother
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The Justice Secretary Jack Straw has held a meeting in Blackburn with James Bulger's mother Denise Fergus.
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- Tory lead cut to 3 points
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A YouGov tracker poll for The Sun has put the Conservative lead over Labour has narrowed to 3%. The full results are; Conservatives 37% (nc), Labour 34% (+2%), Liberal Democrats 17% (nc). Meanwhile, an Angus Reid poll for Political Betting gives the Conservatives a 13 point lead.
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- Clegg demands post-election deal
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Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has said that fair taxation, a green economy, education investment and political reform would be central to his demands if negotiating a post-election deal in a hung parliament. In a separate interview to be published tomorrow, Clegg has attempted to woo Tory voters by praising Lady Thatcher.
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- Budget sets sights on 6 May election
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The chancellor confirmed in writing yesterday that this year's budget would take place on March 24 following a speech by the prime minister, fuelling the expectation that a general election will take place on May 6.
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- Byrne: no VAT rise
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Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Bryne denied that the government will have to raise VAT to reduce the deficit. "We don't see a need to do that because we have made some quite difficult decisions."
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- Labour MP faces expenses probe
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Police are investigating Labour MP Harry Cohen over his expenses claims, according to the BBC. Mr Cohen, who is standing down, was considered to be in "serious" breach of the expenses rules.
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- M15 and M16 may face cuts
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The Intelligence and Security Committee has warned that the security services face "difficult choices" over future funding.
Selected Sources- Downing St media departments to merge
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The media departments of the Cabinet Office and Downing Street are set to merge under a 'single senior management team', according to reports.
Selected Sources- Former civil servant: Whitehall is anarchic
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Sir Richard Mottram, one of the country's most experienced senior civil servants, has described the current system of government as a "variation on anarchy" as he called for a radical overhaul of the Whitehall system.
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- Rail workers vote in favour of strike
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Network Rail maintenance staff have voted in favour of a walkout which could see rail services severely disrupted over Easter. They could be joined by up to 5,500 signal workers whose strike ballot result is announced next week.
Selected SourcesUS Marines are to take over control of the Afghan town of Musa Qala as part of a "readjustment" of British forces in Helmand province.
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- Poll: City would prefer Clarke to Osborne
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City workers would prefer Ken Clarke to George Osborne as Chancellor, according to new research by PoliticsHome and City AM. Vince Cable came in third place on the City's preference list.
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- Tories launch technology agenda
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The party says the plans - which include providing the fastest broadband speeds in Europe - would make them the most "tech friendly government in the developed world".
Selected Sources- Porn director selected for Lib Dems
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Anna Arrowsmith, managing director of adult entertainment company Easy on the Eye Productions, has been selected as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for the Gravesham constituency.
Selected Sources- Married MPs to give back £1,500
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MPs Ann and Alan Keen have been ordered to pay back £1,500 after an investigation found they had broken House of Commons rules on second homes expenses. The report declared that the Keens had committed a "serious misjudgement."
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- Police 'failing on anti-social behaviour'
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Police failures to properly record and resolve cases of anti-social behaviour has damaged public confidence in the police, according to the chief inspector of the constabulary Denis O'Connor.
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- Greece braced for more strikes
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Greece is bracing itself for strikes as workers prepare for the second general strike in a month.
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- Non-political ministers should be 'exceptional'
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Ennobling people from outside parliament, in order to make them ministers, should only be done in "exceptional" circumstances, according to MPs from the Public Administration Committee.
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- Judges warn of prison overcrowding
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The vice-president of an influential group of judges has said that government changes to criminal sentencing could result in further overcrowding of prisons by encouraging jail sentences.
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- Doubts cast over UK borders system
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The government's plan to roll-out an electronic border checking system to monitor 95% of journeys by the end of this year is "not credible," opposition parties and some airline operators have said.
Selected Sources- Hospitals criticised for medicine failures
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Hospitals have been criticised for failing to give patients the medicine they require. The claims have been made by the National Patient Safety Agency.
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- Defence spending row continues
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The heated debate that took place yesterday at PMQs between David Cameron and Gordon Brown over Brown's evidence to the Chilcot inquiry has been escalated by criticism from former chief of defence staff Lord Guthrie.
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- Poll: Labour to be biggest party
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The general election will result in a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party, according to the latest YouGov/Sun tracker poll. The poll puts the Conservatives on 37% and Labour on 32%.
Selected Sources- Reaction: Brown economic speech
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Reaction continues to the prime minister's major economic address yesterday. Gordon Brown said there would be "bumps in the road", but that the UK had reached a turning point on economic recovery.
Selected Sources- Tories: Govt will cut uniformed police
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Ministers are planning to reduce the number of uniformed police despite pledges to do otherwise, according to the Conservatives.
Selected Sources- Scientists to review work of IPCC
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Science academies across the world will not review the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has announced.
Selected Sources- Social care levy could be set at 10%
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The government's proposed levy to fund the establishment of a National Care Service could be sourced out of 10% of an estate's value for those receiving care, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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Friday 6th November 2009 | 17:31
We must shoulder some blame for rise in BNP support, says Hain
Peter Hain, speaking on the latest edition of the BBC's Straight Talk, concedes that the government must take some responsibility for the growth in support for the BNP.
Put to him that the fact a million people voted BNP at the European election was a far bigger issue than Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time he says that the government must "take responsibility and shoulder some of the blame".
"That is the big issue for us as a Labour Government, not just to confront because we’ve tried to do that, but to deal with, because a lot of them are Labour supporters, a lot of them are people who don’t vote normally, some are Conservative supporters; there is a now a bigger disenchantment with politics, it’s not just because of the MPs’ expenses fiasco and scandal," he will say.
"And when you’ve the recession, when you’ve got a shortage of housing, then you’ve got migration and all of these things come together in a toxic mix, it’s very, very fertile territory for racists and fascists to exploit, as it always has been in history, and we have to take responsibility and shoulder some of the blame for that."
He also admits that the government "haven’t had a good housing record".
"We should have prioritised housing much more than we did. You can’t prioritise everything, we prioritised health and education and we were right to do so, but I think we could have done more on housing, especially county councils, and councils doing more on housing as we are now belatedly allowing them to do," he will say.
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