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Flooding blame game drowns out vital logic of managed retreat
It is quite natural, right and proper that in the immediacy of what is happening in the UK, from politicians down, it is helping people out with flooded homes that comes top priority.
Twenty-seven bishops condemn the government’s “punitive” welfare reforms, which they say have forced people into food and fuel poverty.
As the prime minister insists that he has a strong moral case for welfare reform, campaigners warn that, in an already unequal society, the changes are falling unfairly on the poorest.
David Cameron defends the government’s welfare reforms in the face of criticism and insists they are part of his “moral mission.”
Labour retains Wythenshawe and Sale East in a by-election, while the Conservatives are pushed into third place by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats lose their deposit.
It is quite natural, right and proper that in the immediacy of what is happening in the UK, from politicians down, it is helping people out with flooded homes that comes top priority.
David Cameron said “money is no object” when it comes to flood relief. How expensive might that end up for the government? And who is going to pay the most? FactCheck does the sums.
Despite David Cameron’s assurances, money is very much an object when it comes to preventing flooding.
Dried off and back on solid ground, David Cameron announced he would return from the flood-hit south west to hold a Downing Street press conference. Is the event making a comeback?
David Cameron denies the government did not prioritise flood prevention. “I don’t accept that,” he tells Gary Gibbon. “We have topped up [funding] when we’ve seen the events in Somerset.”
Swiss voters narrowly back proposals to reintroduce immigration quotas with the European Union – the vote echoes the debate in the UK over the impact of free movement.
Large swathes of England and Wales are on flood alert on Sunday as yet another storm with winds of up to 70mph arrives to batter Britain.
There are extraordinary numbers of Tory MPs, not least in the 2010 intake, who tell you they couldn’t care less if Scotland wandered off and it might be for the better.
Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond disputes David Cameron’s claim that independence north of the border would make the rest of the UK weaker.
It’s the latest round in the battle of the sexes, and Ed Miliband hasn’t held back from throwing a punch at what Labour thinks is the Tories’ weak spot. Is he right?
There are many reasons to question Michael Gove’s decision not to reappoint Baroness Sally Morgan to a second term at the helm of the school’s inspector Ofsted.