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Labour deputy says 'sandwich generation' must come first in policy
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | about 3 hours ago
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Labour's deputy leader will insist that the family will have to be taken even more seriously in future as the "foundation" of all government policy. Ms Harman, the Women and Equalities Minister, has encountered resistance to her attempts to increase maternity...
Tags: sandwich generation, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Solicitors General for England and Wales, Politics, Harriet Harman, Labour Party, Harman
City bonuses under threat of windfall tax
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | about 3 hours ago
Credibility A windfall tax on bonus payments to highly paid City bankers was under consideration at the Treasury today as the government prepared to announce Whitehall efficiency savings worth £3bn. The chancellor, Alistair Darling , is looking at bonuses but has...
Tags: Labour, Whitehall, Deficit, Politics, Gordon Brown, Business Finance, Tax, Labour Party, Public finance, E-Government, Saving, Conservative Party, Trotskyists, Govan, Gershon Review, Alistair Darling
Tories aim resources at winning a workable majority in election
London :: United Kingdom | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Eric Pickles, the party chairman, has told candidates that Tory high command expects Gordon Brown to dissolve the current Parliament just before Easter. A draft programme of visits and events prepared for Mr Cameron anticipates a month and a half of electioneering...
Tags: Labour Coronation Street, workable majority, open primaries, United Kingdom, London, International Democrat Union, Tory, David Cameron, Liberal Democrats, Politics, Conservative Party, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Labour Party, George Osborne
Little expresses support for Goff (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Labour Party president Andrew Little maintains he completely supports party leader Phil Goff and his position against the Maori Party. He is challenging media claims that he had concerns with a speech delivered by Mr Goff a fortnight ago that attacked...
Tags: Maori Party, Phil Goff, Mr Goff, Labour Party, New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy, Politics, Goff, Mￄﾁori Party, World Bank, Don Brash, Mￄﾁori politics, New Zealand Labour Party, Mￄﾁori, Human Interest, Orewa Speech
Gray embroiled in local donor row
London :: United Kingdom | about 14 hours ago
Credibility East Lothian Council is investigating the Prestonpans Labour Party over the use of a council marquee for its annual fundraising summer barbecue. The local party, which gave £800 to Mr Gray's leadership campaign in 2008, said it was a key community event...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Politics, Scottish Labour Party, Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999-2003, Second International, Iain Gray, Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007-, Unitary authorities of Scotland, Labour Party, Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scottish National Party, Wendy Alexander, Scottish Conservative Party
Labour needs to get British industry working again
Brussels :: Belgium | 1 day ago
Credibility As is also well known, in the second phase of his chancellorship he lost his reputation for prudence by not controlling the budgetary finances during the boom, thereby making a laughing stock of his once admired fiscal rules. If it is true that the prime...
Tags: New Labour, Gordon Brown, finances capitalism, prime minister, Belgium, Brussels, Anglo-Scots, Politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, Peter Mandelson, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone
Alan Watkins: Tax tweaks nudge the Tories to No 10
Waterloo :: IA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Only a few months ago, we were assured on all sides that the class war was finished, dead, done for. It was as dead as ... well, as the Labour Party's misconceived campaign in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. The only mourners were the intrepid class...
Tags: Mr Brown, Mr Cameron, inheritance tax, prime minister, Harold Wilson, Eton, Margaret Thatcher, Mr Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Mr Osborne, Waterloo, Anglo-Scots, Michael Heseltine, David Cameron, Politics, Conservative Party, Douglas Hurd, Knights of the Garter, George Osborne, Old Etonians
Mandelson warning as Kraft bids for Cadbury
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Lord Mandelson has warned that the British Government will scrutinise any foreign takeover of Cadbury and oppose any buyer that fails to "respect" the historic confectioner, the subject of a £10.1bn hostile bid from Kraft Foods of the US yesterday. The...
Tags: Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury PLC, Mandelson, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Cadbury, Kraft Foods, British brands, Takeover, Peter Mandelson, Chocolatiers, Mergers and acquisitions, Cadbury UK, Social democratic parties, Politics, Marxist historians, Eric Hobsbawm, Chocolate, Labour Party, Labour parties, Northfield Illinois, Democratic socialism, Socialist International, Bournville
Why a British by-election cannot bury the SNP,
Glenrothes :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility So the party is over for the Scottish National Party according to the British media. Victory for Labour in the Glasgow North East by-election shows that the SNP are incapable of defeating Labour and worse than that opinion polls show low support for independence...
Tags: British Labour Government, New Labourism, Scots Labour, Could Labour, Labour Party, SNP, James Gordon Brown, Scotland, Brown Bottler, British National Party, United Kingdom, Glenrothes, Members of the Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom constitution, Politics, Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007-, Politics of Scotland, Alex Salmond, Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, Govan
MSPs reject Labour rail link bid
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility A Holyrood finance committee report into the budget shows Labour members wanted its conclusions to include calls for ministers to revive the project...The £120m rail link scheme was scrapped by Finance Minister John Swinney in September amid public spending...
Tags: Labour Party, Holyrood finance committee report, SNP, scottish government, United Kingdom, London, Members of the Scottish Parliament, Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999-2003, David Whitton, Joe FitzPatrick, Politics, Business Finance, Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007-, John Swinney, Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003-2007
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