Gary Gibbon
Where is the power right now?
While Brussels and Berlin teemed with reaction, Edinburgh too… London seemed strangely silent.
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MPs reject SNP amendment for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
MPs have been voting on that SNP amendment calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, they rejected the amendment by 293 to 125.
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UK inflation falls to lowest level for more than two years, but are prices getting cheaper?
UK inflation has fallen sharply to 4.6% in October, according to new figures – its lowest level for more than two years.
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Gary Gibbon
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Jackie Long
Are the government’s ‘fit for work’ tests linked to an increase in suicides?
Researchers suggest that almost 600 suicides may be linked with the government’s controversial tests.
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Gary Gibbon
Royal Mail sell off: Ed Miliband is back
George Osborne announces the sell-off of the last third of Royal Mail and Ed Miliband gives his first speech in nine years from the back benches.
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Alex Thomson
When will English politicians understand Scotland and the SNP?
How much longer does the English political establishment go on not only not getting it – but demonstrating with toe-curling embarrassment that they simply don’t get it.
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Jackie Long
The unexpected costs of the ‘welfare revolution’
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
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Faisal Islam
2012/13: lowest year for official UK housebuilding since the 1920s
135,117 – the next time you hear a politician, any politician, talk about the cost of living, think about this number. Why? Because it marks the lowest point in UK house-building in nearly 100 years.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron: everything’s on the up but job’s not done
The Tories wanted to monster Labour’s “Blue Peter economics” and proclaim themselves the party of aspiration and business – two mantles party strategists felt Labour abandoned last week.
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Cameron cooks up a porky on the gas ring – FactCheck
David Cameron keeps on saying the government will, by law, force energy companies to put customers on the lowest tariffs. Doesn’t appear in any bills FactCheck can find.
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Faisal Islam
Can the Treasury blame borrowing figures on North Sea platform?
Faisal Islam questions Chloe Smith’s claim that shocking borrowing figures from the government were down to the closure of a single platform in the North Sea.
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Jon Snow
A budget like no other?
Never before has there been so many Budget leaks, and discussion of what tomorrow’s Budget will hold. But is it a sign of a more open, democratic government?
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Faisal Islam
Unions hold full fire on cuts agenda
There is only one aim for the Union movement here in Manchester. Can they turn the government’s austerity drive from an issue of self interest into an issue of nationwide social justice?
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Jon Snow
Was this when coalition love first bloomed?
At the height of the MPs expenses scandal, the then Commons Speaker Michael Martin – himself under siege – agreed a meeting with the three main Westminster party leaders.