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News Source: BBC
| 4 minutes ago
It may not be the definitive package with which Labour will finally face the voters. There is still the Budget and, of course, the general election manifesto to come...After months of being in the opinion poll doldrums, Labour is sensing if not a
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News Source: Times Online
| 1 day ago
Scarcely 18 months have passed since commentators pretty much pronounced the class war dead — locating the burial place somewhere between Crewe and Nantwich. It was there that Labour activists wore top hats to parody Edward Timpson, a Conservative
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News Source: The Independent
| 1 day ago
So you can hardly blame the Tories for claiming that Labour was up to its old tricks at Mr Clarke’s speech. Labour denies it, of course, but seems remarkably well-informed. “A reminder of Times past,” quipped a Tory official. But the Tories are
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News Source: The independent
| 2 days ago
In fact, a familiar figure has been seen paying unpublicised calls on the Prime Minister – a tall, athletically built man in his early fifties, who holds his head high and has the manner of someone who is daring anyone to take him on if they are
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News Source: Times Online
| 2 days ago
A “Public Sector Rich List”, compiled by the TaxPayers’ Alliance and covering 350 public bodies, shows that 806 executives collected more than £150,000, with eight on packages worth more than £1 million. The list, which covers Whitehall
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News Source: New Statesman
| 3 days ago
But it is not just the liberal left which believes that inheritance tax is simple and equitable. There has long been a strong entrepreneurial and meritocratic case for it, too. In the US, the campaign against George W Bush's plan to cut the tax
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News Source: Times Online
| 3 days ago
The Times has obtained a tape recording of comments made by Mr Clarke, the Shadow Business Secretary, on Tuesday night that reflect unease among senior Conservatives over opinion polls which show that Labour has eaten into their lead in recent weeks.
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News Source: Times Online
| 3 days ago
Alastair Campbell rejoined the political fray yesterday, apparently helping Gordon Brown to deploy class-war politics against David Cameron. The Prime Minister, in his most combative Commons performance for months, peppered the opposition leader with