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Brown to announce pay freeze amid fears over UK's credit rating

Tue, 09/03/2010 - 19:45
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

Tue, 09/03/2010 - 18:37
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'

Tue, 09/03/2010 - 17:15
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

Tue, 09/03/2010 - 16:14
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

Sat, 06/03/2010 - 19:36
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

Fri, 05/03/2010 - 18:28
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

Fri, 05/03/2010 - 18:28
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

Thu, 04/03/2010 - 19:19
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

Thu, 04/03/2010 - 16:14
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

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:53
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

Tue, 02/03/2010 - 19:50
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

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 21:07
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?

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 18:41
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

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 18:09
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

Sat, 27/02/2010 - 18:41
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

Thu, 25/02/2010 - 16:01
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

Wed, 24/02/2010 - 20:09
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

Wed, 24/02/2010 - 20:09
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

Tue, 23/02/2010 - 19:13
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

Tue, 23/02/2010 - 19:09
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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