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Clegg warns Osborne that top rate tax is staying
In a speech aimed at boosting Lib Dem members’ morale, Nick Clegg announces that Paddy Ashdown will lead the party’s election campaign and outlines the party’s difference from its coalition partners.
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Are we really open for business?
The government’s proposed £1bn business bank is the latest initiative to encourage lending in the midst of recession. Channel 4 News looks at similar schemes and assesses the challenges ahead.
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C4 Class of 2012: ‘So much rejection is dehumanising’
Overall unemployment falls in the last three months, but the number of young people out of work rises to 1.02 million. One 20-year-old tells Channel 4 News that job centres need to do more to help.
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EU unveils banking union plan to tackle euro crisis
Major strides are taken to tackle eurozone debt, with plans for a banking union and German approval of a permanent bailout fund to rescue ailing countries.
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Disability rights protesters invade government building
Campaigners against changes to disability benefit rules invade the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following a protest outside the offices of one of the Paralympic Games’ main sponsors Atos.
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Lies, damned lies and Paul Ryan’s convention speech
There is political rhetoric – and then there are facts. Paul Ryan wowed delegates at the Republican National Convention – but his remarks have been slated for playing fast and loose with the truth.
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Spanish depositors flee, stoking fears of full bailout
Private depositors flee Spanish banks and Catalonia seeks a 5bn euro rescue, heightening fears of a full country bailout.
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FactCheck: Should the Tories give back the Nadir cash?
If one of the companies used to make the donations was part of this subterfuge, where does that leave the Conservatives, legally and indeed morally?
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UK recession less bad than feared, but still grim
The UK economy shrank by less than previously thought between April and June, official figures show, helped by revised construction output figures.
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Ad Wars: Liar, liar, pants on fire
The Obama and Romney campaigns have been putting out out a series of increasingly hysterial ads ahead of the party conventions. Brand consultant James von Leyden casts an eye over them.
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Greece needs ‘more time for cuts’
Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, calls for more time to implement tough spending cuts and reforms, ahead of talks on its bailout.
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Asil Nadir – the smiling face of a fraudster
As Asil Nadir is convicted of multi-million pound fraud, Channel 4 News looks at the downfall of a glamorous tycoon once feted by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative party.
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Zuma addresses miners in bid to quell South African unrest
As South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma returns to Marikana, where 44 people died during strike action by miners, fears grow that unrest will spread across the heartland of global platinum mining.
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Independence declaration or a bid for the Murdoch empire?
As Elisabeth Murdoch prepares to address the Edinburgh International Television Festival, a leading media commentator speculates that there may soon be no Murdochs at the top of the family business.
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Expensive social housing ‘should be sold off’: report
Expensive social housing should be sold off to fund a wave of new building across the UK, a report by the right-leaning Policy Exchange think tank has said.