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Spending ministers looking like ‘national union of mice’
Ministers whose departments have yet to agree their 2015-6 budgets are offering little resistance as the pressure mounts for them to suggest possible, and painful, cuts.
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attempts to quell widespread protests by offering a national vote on amending the country’s constitution.
Ed Miliband commits to sticking with coalition spending plans and rules out more borrowing to reverse public spending cuts.
The father of baby Joshua Titcombe, who died in hospital, tells Channel 4 News he felt physically sick on learning that Cynthia Bower ordered the CQC failings cover-up and calls for a wider inquiry.
Large crowds gather overnight outside the Greek state broadcaster after the government announced it would be shut down to save money.
Britain pledges £375 million to help feed millions of the world’s poorest children, as part of a global agreement to tackle malnutrition.
Ministers whose departments have yet to agree their 2015-6 budgets are offering little resistance as the pressure mounts for them to suggest possible, and painful, cuts.
Labour criticises the government’s handling of the NHS, saying that A&E units are being closed in the middle of a “crisis” that could have been avoided.
Figures from the King’s Fund show that nearly 6 per cent of patients waited for four hours or longer in accident and emergency in the final quarter of last year.
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Labour will stick to George Osborne’s spending plans for 2015-16, Ed Balls announces – but is he playing political games?
The shadow chancellor announces Labour would cut winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, in a move intended to show the opposition’s willingness to display “iron discipline” once in power.
Russian opposition leaders release a report claiming up to $30bn was stolen during preparations for the next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Fresh evidence of the NHS under pressure as a leading doctor warns stretched GPs see up to 70 patients a day, and new figures show a big rise in ambulances turned away from hospitals.
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of kidnap, as they continue to search for 17-year-old Georgia Williams, who went missing on Sunday.
Thousands take to the streets of Paris in opposition of the French government’s legalisation of gay marriage last week in a final show of force, after months of debate that has hugely divided France.