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Brown to announce pay freeze amid fears over UK's credit rating
Senior public sector workers will have their pay frozen, Gordon Brown will
confirm today.
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Ulster devolution gets go ahead after vote to hand back police and justice powers
Policing and justice powers are to be handed over to the Northern Ireland
Assembly - finally paving the way for devolution to be completed in the
province.
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Conservatives promise new National Security Council will end blight of 'sofa government'
A new National Security Council, set up by the Conservatives, would ensure
that future decisions about war were not taken "without notes" or just by
the Prime Minister just having "little chats" with a close cabal of advisers.
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Government limos take ministers 2.6 million miles
Ministerial limousines have driven politicians 2.6 million miles in the last
year - a rise of 10 per cent of the previous 12 months, new figures reveal.
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MPs demand right to travel first class
MPs have demanded the right to first class train travel in a move that threatens to reignite the expenses row.
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MPs complain about expenses reform proposals
MPs seek to water down attempts to reform their allowances by complaining they
could be left with 'major cash flow problems'.
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MPs complain about expenses reform proposals
MPs are seeking to water down attempts to reform their allowances following
the expenses scandal by complaining that they could be left with 'major cash
flow problems'.
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MPs' salaries pass £65,000 after 1.5pc rise
Award comes as millions of workers face pay freezes and cuts from employers
struggling with the weak economy.
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Tony Blair's £4 million memoirs to go on sale after election
Tony Blair is to publish his memoirs later this year, in a move which will
make public his version of his often tempestuous relationship with Gordon
Brown.
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Michael Foot, the last true socialist Labour leader dies
Baroness Thatcher has paid tribute to Michael Foot, the former Labour leader,
as a "great Parliamentarian" and a man of "high principles".
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MPs' expenses: public distrust and scepticism of politicans hardens, report finds
Public distrust of politicians has hardened in the wake of the Telegraph's
MPs' expenses revelations, a new report finds today.
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Lord Ashcroft admits he is non-dom
Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative peer and major donor to the party, has
admitted he does not pay UK tax on earnings made outside Britain.
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Will Labour's non-dom peers leave Lords?
Labour peers who have admitted to being non-doms will now come under pressure
to reveal whether they will relinquish that status in order to remain in the
House of Lords.
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Lord Ashcroft admits he is a non-dom for tax
Lord Ashcroft, the biggest donor to the Conservative Party, has admitted that
he has not paid full UK tax on his earnings for the last decade.
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Disgraced MP Harry Cohen expecting £100,000 profit on taxpayer-funded home sale
It is the house that taxpayers built, and it stands to make disgraced Labour
MP Harry Cohen a handsome £100,000 profit.
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Labour could still win most seats, new poll shows
Latest survey indicates a hung parliament but with Gordon Brown in the
position to form a government as leader of largest party.
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George Osborne: cut debt now or face economic disaster
Britain risks losing its economic "sovereignty" unless cuts are made this year
to reduce the record budget deficit, Tories warn.
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George Osborne warns economic sovereignty lost unless debt tackled this year
Britain risks losing its economic 'sovereignty' unless cuts are made this year
to reduce the record budget deficit, George Osborne warned last night.
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Conservatives revive Reagan slogan to ask voters if are better off under Labour
The Conservatives will today revive one of the most devastating election
slogans of recent history by echoing Ronald Reagan's question to voters:
"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
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On Expenses, BBC Four, review
Andrew Pettie reviews BBC Four's light-hearted comedy drama recreating the MPs
expenses scandal, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Brian Cox, plus the last
episode of BBC Two's documentary series How Earth Made Us.
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