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Coalition Government will, for the first time, target funding through tailored support on a payment-by-results system to 16 and 17-year-olds with no GCSEs at A* - C who are at the highest risk of long-term disengagement. Commenting, Annette Brooke, MP...
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‘The Greek bail-out is good for Britain’ and was a ‘really significant step towards resolving the Eurozone crisis?’. The words come not, as you might expect, from a leading member of the euro-fanatic Lib Dems. Or even from a grateful Lucas Papademos,...
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16th February. The Lib Dems lost one seat to the Tories and held one seat. Labour and the Tories held one seat each. There was seven parish or town council by-elections results reported to ALDC six Independents and a Liberal Democrat were elected. For...
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Tories are on 36 (despite opening up a five point lead in the Guardian‘s poll last month), Labour are up two on last month at 37, while the Liberal Democrats are at 14. These results mirror those in the Populus/Times poll, also out today, which puts the...
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Aside from the fact that they are not doing their best to make Southend a great place to live and work in, a question by Carole Roast took a whole twenty-two months to illicit a reply. Even then, the reply was less than informative. This blog...
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Osborne’s emphasis, for now at least, is on continued austerity — ‘staying the course’. Clegg and Laws, meanwhile, are offering to ease your pain and telling you that things will soon be better. But only if they get their tax cut. Set your TiVos. At...
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“Our challenge here is not just to balance the books in economic austerity but also to ensure the borough – our residents, businesses and partners – is best placed to capitalise when the recovery arrives.” The alternative budget is also set to be...
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The rise, which will come into effect this year, is happening despite the government offering the Council £1.42 million to freeze the tax. The Leader of the Council has refused to meet with a cross party group of councillors to discuss the budget and...
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He said his intention had been to strengthen the bill, to make it "more constitutional and more likely to get through", but had intended to withdraw it at the end of the debate. 'Standing on my head' He told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: "I am...
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2011 wasn’t the best month to be a Liberal Democrat. It was even worse if you were a Liberal Democrat Councillor that month. Plenty of good people up and down the country lost their seats on the back of a national backlash against the party for firstly...
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I thought you might like to see it: The Liberal Democrats want to give tax cuts to millions not millionaires – to put more money back in your pockets and take the poorest workers out of tax completely. Tomorrow night you’ll have the chance to see a...
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The problem with that is that, if we take a (made-up) view that 40% of the country votes Labour, 40% vote Conservative and 15% vote for Liberal Democrats and 5% for “others”, and we also assume that every voter agrees with every policy of each party...
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While some yellow partisans have downplayed the results as a rogue poll, UKIP have revelled in their perceived emergence as a “new choice” in the region. The survey has provided an “I told you so” moment” for others, notable North East Lib Dem...
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If the emergency motion is accepted in order by the federal conference committee, it has to win a priority ballot among other submitted emergency motions before it can be debated. Liberal Democrats are in the awkward position, due to the timing of its...
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Gay marriage will be legalised despite growing opposition to a change in the law, Downing Street has insisted. Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has spoken against the proposal to change the status of marriage, claiming it 'constitutes one of...
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Meeting House in Euston Road, London, to witness round one of the mayoral campaign. In the blue corner Boris Johnson, in the red corner Ken Livingstone. Let's hope this particular bout does not end up like the David Haye - Dereck Chisora brawl. Also on...
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HEALTH Minister will be among Liberal Democrats gathering for a regional party conference in High Wycombe this weekend. Minister of State for Care Services, Paul Burstow, and Euro MP Sharon Bowles are among the party's big hitters due to speak at the...
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“Tax breaks for married couples would only help 4 million couples to the tune of around £150 year. “This year, thanks to the Liberal Democrats, over 1 million people will have been lifted out of paying any income tax, rising to 4 million by 2015. ...
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You can rebrand as much as you like – you’re still Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats… Recently Michael Dugher laid out the facts that suggest the PM is dodging PMQs – in particular by scheduling parliamentary business for a Friday, rather than a Wednesday.
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Youth Contract, the Coalition Government will, for the first time, target funding through tailored support on a payment-by-results system to 16 and 17-year-olds with no GCSEs at A* – C who are at the highest risk of long-term disengagement. Commenting,...
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The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had been in alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP. The party's leader is Nick Clegg. Full Article
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