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Quangos: a bonfire or just a singeing?
Our Political Editor asks whether there really has been a “bonfire of the quangos” – and looks at the differing fates which face them.
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Ken McCluskey, new leader of the country’s biggest union, pledges to lead the fight against the coalition government’s cuts – and refuses to rule out the possibility of a general strike.
Our Political Editor asks whether there really has been a “bonfire of the quangos” – and looks at the differing fates which face them.
The Conservative conference, which opens today, will see a raft of plans to curb Britain’s “compensation culture”.
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Former Labour leader, now an independent MP, Jeremy Corbyn and the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, who is chair of the Commons defence select committee, joined Matt Frei to discuss the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan. MF: Jeremy Corbyn, you were never in favour of this military intervention, are you relieved that it is now over? JC:…
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