Darling warns of deep recession
The Chancellor Alistair Darling has acknowledged Britain is "going into recession" but claims that, although it will be harsh, it should be over by 2010. In his starkest admission yet that recession
is inevitable, Darling told the Independent that "we are going into recession. I remain confident that... [continued]
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Brown and Cameron clash over Baby P case
The Government last night announced an urgent inquiry in Haringey Council's handling of the case of Baby P, a 17-month-old who died after horrific abuse. The announcement by Ed Balls, the Schools and
Families Secretary, followed a furious row in the Commons between David Cameron and Gordon Brown.... [continued]
The Mole: Cameron picks the wrong fight on eve of Brown's big summit
Cameron expels Tory MEP found guilty of breaking expenses rules
David Cameron has promised a "deep clean" of MEP expenses after expelling a Conservative MEP found guilty of expenses abuses yesterday. Den Dover, a former Conservative chief whip in the European
Parliament, was found guilty by an official inquiry and was ordered to repay more than £500,000. Dover resigned... [continued]
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MEPs who ride the Brussels gravy train
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Daniel Hannan: the Lisbon Treaty will be pushed through by stealth
£1bn reprieve for post offices
A £1bn government contract should save 3,000 post offices from closure, ministers are expected to confirm today. The Government will announce that the Post Office is to keep its five-year contract to
distribute benefits to 4.3m claimants. Unions and Labour backbenchers were worried that the contract would be... [continued]
Time to send the Post Office to market
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Jersey police chief suspended over ‘shambolic’ £4.5m inquiry
A £4.5 million inquiry into child abuse on Jersey has been described as a shambles after the island's chief of police was suspended over his role in the bungled investigation. Jersey's new Minister
for Home Affairs, Andrew Lewis, suspended Graham Power from duty with immediate affect after a new... [continued]
Jersey care home debacle and the rule of the mob
Powell in running for Obama post
Several leading Republicans, including former Secretary of State Colin Powel and US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, are being considered for high-ranking posts in Barack Obama's new cabinet. John
Podesta, one of Obama's transition co-chairs, said that Republicans and independents would be appointed in key positions and other jobs... [continued]
American Transition: Obama will rip up parts of the Bush legacy but not all of it
Americans: what will Penny Pritzker get for backing Obama?
Shannon ‘drugged and tethered’
Shannon Matthews, the schoolgirl whose disappearance saw one of West Yorkshire's largest police searches, was drugged and tethered to a roof beam in a kidnap plot orchestrated by her mother, a court
heard yesterday. The nine-year-old was held for 24 days after her mother Karen Matthews hatched a plot to... [continued]
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