Following Ed Miliband's challenge to David Cameron at PMQs – Labour is stepping up its campaign against cutting housing benefit for people out of work for 12 months.
Responding to reports of a 50 per cent drop in planning approvals for wind farms in England, Meg Hillier, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said:
Reports across the weekend press have revealed the extent to which the Government is backtracking on its promises to protect NHS funding, improve cancer care and cut waiting times.
Danny Alexander tweeted in retort to Harriet Harman’s gingerism… “I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind. Red squirrel deserves to survive, unlike Labour.”
Fine Gael TD Michael Ring said… “Now look at the mess we’re in and look at the mess this country is in. Next year the Queen is talking about coming to Ireland for a state visit. Maybe we should say to the Queen when she comes ‘you know, we have our own independence now, we’ll [...]
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Cllr Nigel Fletcher tweets: “PM says he “hit the phones” at EU summit yesterday. A nice change from the last PM, who used to hit people with phones.” Tagged: Quote of the Day
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Gideon has spoken and the Coalition government has finally passed sentence on the public sector, outlining £81bn of spending cuts over four years. The Chancellor delivered his long-awaited (feared?) Comprehensive Spending Review to the Commons yesterday in a carefully crafted statement aimed at blunting Labour criticisms of the severity of the cuts. Announcing a 19% [...]
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Kurd: Deal closer on settling Iraq political limbo
BAGHDAD — Iraqi political leaders took a step closer Friday to unsnarling the nation’s seven-month political gridlock, according to a key Kurdish negotiator who cited a tentative deal that would keep Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in power.
The possible agreement with Kurdish parties would give al-Maliki’s Shiite-led coalition enough ... Read more : Kurdish negotiator says deal is close on pact to keep PM al-Maliki as Iraq leader.
Steve Richards of The Independent tweets that we should not be surprised if George Osborne performs a u-turn over the controversial Child Benefit cut for high earners announced at the Tory Party Conference this week. The point Richards makes is that, while in Opposition, Cameron and Osborne quite frequently ‘flip-flopped’, to use the dreadful American [...]