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VIDEO: Local election circus week review
London :: United Kingdom | 18 days ago
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Mary Ann Sieghart headed to the circus to review the political week leading up a to series of elections for rural councils, two mayors and an MP on Thursday. She looked at the politicians in the headlines and how the bigger parties campaigned in the
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Don't block our bid to kick out Qatada PM warns Clegg as Government considers withdrawal from European court of Human Rights
London :: United Kingdom | 26 days ago
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I believe we should look at all the options and that should include leaving the jurisdiction of the court altogether,' she told MPs. The Prime Minister is looking at all the options.' Mr Clegg was kept in the dark about a council of war' ordered by
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Jeans and no tie - Maggie didn't believe the young man she'd just met could be the Tory leader
Plymouth :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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Major's defeat in the 1997 general election left the party pulverised. Not just its parliamentary representation, but its constituency organisation had been shattered. As would swiftly become apparent, the blow to its intellectual self-confidence was
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Osborne's constituents want a full-time Chancellor
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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As the economy has continued to underperform, the pressure on George Osborne to relinquish his role as the Conservatives' chief election strategist and focus solely on Treasury matters has grown. It isn't just Labour that's aggrieved by the "part-
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Just a quarter of criminals caught with a knife are jailed despite plans for stronger sentencing
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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That left one in four, a total of 949 individuals, who were given an immediate custodial sentence. That knife thugs are less likely to be jailed on the spot will raise concerns about sentencing. Review: Justice Minister Damian Green said the
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Secret payout for terror suspects
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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The full extent of the payouts has emerged after Kenneth Clarke, the minister without portfolio, warned that Britain is a magnet for compensation claims. Huge sums of public money have been handed to terror suspects who say they have been wrongly
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Kenneth Clarke: leaving EU would be fatal mistake
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Kenneth Clarke said Britain must be an active player in the reform of the EU. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Kenneth Clarke , the veteran pro-European former Tory chancellor, has warned that Britain would make a "fatal mistake" if it voted
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Clarke is forced into a secret justice U-turn after peers' protests
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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28 January 2013 Kenneth Clarke will today perform an embarrassing U-turn over his plans for secret courts. The former Justice Secretary will announce that judges will be given full control over when to hold secret hearings overturning the original
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The Tories on Europe - 1990s nostalgia?
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 months ago
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Is David Cameron facing the same challenges on Europe as John Major? In the glory days of the mid-1990s, when I first worked as political reporter for The Times newspaper, we were blessed with a large broadsheet page that we had to fill each day with
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Europe: no more talk of in-or-out. Let's think opt-outs| Simon Jenkins
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 months ago
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They stumble on through a storm of cliches, about sleep-walking, club members, departure lounges and minutes to midnight...On Friday the prime minister, David Cameron, is to give an oration , heavily trailed and chaotically scheduled, to calibrate
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