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ICM poll yesterday shows that people trust the Conservatives less on the NHS now than in 2006, which is an interesting finding in itself, but it doesn’t follow that the drop in trust has come in the last few weeks or is a result of the current policy. ...
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Tories who try to reopen the so-called West Lothian Question by demanding "English votes for English laws" at Westminster or seeking a review of the financial settlement between the different nations of the UK, risk undermining the drive to preserve...
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I am claimed to have been paid. A lose, lose proposition, for sure.” At $76,500, Drummond knows his bill is more than what most Ontarians make in a year. On the other hand, he says, it’s similar to what a senior government official asked to do the same...
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Luke Bozier, a former Labour Party web guru who recently defected to the Tories, has an op-ed up at the Huffington Post recommending "intervention 2.0" as an international strategy for responding to the bloodshed in Syria. Here's how it works: Instead...
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A good but very hard fought victory. In Oadby Woodlands ward of Oadby and Wigston council on the outskirts of Leicester, we went to the count expecting to win. We were defending a seat on a council that we run with a healthy majority and Labour did not...
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There’s a lot of people out there waiting for treatment and if your bill goes through, they will be waiting a lot longer”.’ ‘He said, “we are not privatising the NHS”. I said, “I’ve got news for you. You’ve been privatising it since 1979″.’ [The...
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Don't get it. (Although not for those of us who have to pay for it). jamesrusselluk Yes. SADC is planning an upgrade. But let's talk about it now. Very busy surgery today looking at the St Albans street light switch off. Not sure that those in the...
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The Tories' Lib Dem lackey said that his cunning plan will magic 16 and 17-year-old "Neets" - not in education, employment and training - back into work, school or training. The caper is part of the coalition's youth contract scheme announced last...
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He said: "There are going to be some uncomfortable moments in education reform in the years ahead. There will be years, because we are going to make exams tougher, when the number of people passing will fall. "There are going to be people associated...
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They were at loggerheads with the ruling Tory party for almost two hours during a heated Basildon Council meeting. It discussed a document detailing where up to 21,600 homes could be built in the next 20 years. Labour councillors voted against the...
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Privacy watchdogs have sounded the alarm time and again, but there was no outcry until Mr. Toews added his rhetorical fillip – that dash of George W. Bush – that turned a bit of workaday fear-mongering into a grand national insult. The uproar that...
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February 2012 Last updated at 06:58 ET Tories are warned that the NHS reforms could turn toxic in the key Midlands electoral battlefield "Decontaminating the brand". It's how the Conservatives had defined the challenge facing them in opposition. Nowhere...
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A university student was removed from a rally in London after being electronically monitored by the Conservatives. What was the threat and the justification? Her Facebook account was watched by the Conservatives and her “crime” was having a picture of...
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In February 1997 the “Commentator of the Year” was musing in the Indy: Latest figures for Project Work, the Government’s pilot workfare scheme, suggest colossal fraud or deliberate idleness on a scale no one predicted. Nearly a decade and half later and...
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Cllr Garnett continued: "HS2 is the biggest threat this constituency has faced in living memory. We are committed to doing all we can to fight it off from within our party. "We hosted Lord Feldman to ensure that he fully understands the anger,...
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...having ‘the best approach to the NHS’ Six out of 10 voters think the Prime Minister has failed to deliver on the assurances that he gave on the NHS at the last election By six-to-one, voters trust the verdict on health reform of health professionals rather...
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Just 33 per cent believe that at this stage it is better to persevere with the reform, meaning that there is a 19 point margin in favour of axing the bill. This is reasonably consistent across social classes, gender, and regions. While Conservative...
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Even the Queen intervened to defend the Church of England's role. Richard Dawkins, whose survey about Christianity in the UK ignited the row, defends his position on secularism, faith and tolerance in conversation with Will Hutton of the Observer I...
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The findings suggest the row over the Bill may be damaging the coalition with the support for the Conservatives dropping from 40% to 36% - four points down on last month - while the Liberal Democrats were down two points on 14%. Labour, in contrast,...
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