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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Ministers are discussing proposals to curb outside earnings in Parliament. 66 per cent of Tory MPs, 37 per cent of Liberal Democrats and 19 per cent of Labour MPs have other jobs, reports The Independent. The report says that three proposals are being considered in a confidential paper by Helen Goodman, deputy leader of the house. (i) a total ban on outside earnings (ii) a US-style earnings limit of...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 53 minutes ago
For some time it has been known that Sir Reg Empey has an interest in aligning the Ulster Unionist Party more closely with David Cameron’s Conservatives. At the UUP’s AGM the leader’s speech committed the party to working closely with the Tories in the European Parliament. Empey’s instinct looks set to crystallise into a more concrete arrangement with the two party leaders releasing a joint statement...
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The British Conservative Party and the Ulster Unionist Party in the North have confirmed that they are holding talks about forming closer links.
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Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Apparently, with the active involvement of 16,464 members of the Labour Party I have been elected to its National Executive Committee with effect from the end of Annual Conference 2008. Many thanks to everyone who voted for me. If you want to receive my reports, let me have your eMail address, CLP and branch. Details of the results were sent to Save the Labour Party unofficially and have been posted...
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Times Online - Peter Riddell (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Win or lose in Glasgow, Mr Brown will remain Prime Minister and Alex Salmond will retain the initiative in Scottish politics. But what is being called Warwick 2, after the original deal with the unions there in 2004, will have a crucial bearing on Labour's future. This is less about immediate policies than what is said at the next election and, even more crucially, afterwards, especially if Labour...
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A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Very happy to read this and I make no apologies for printing it in full : Joint Statement by David Cameron MP, Leader of the Conservative Party & Sir Reg Empey MLA, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. This is the full text of a statement that was published in the Daily Telegraph today, July 24th, 2008. "Northern Ireland is a better place today than it was a decade ago. There are grounds for confidence...
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Did you read that the Conservative Party has been holding secret talks with the Ulster Unionist Party in an effort to restore a link shattered 30 years ago? Under the new arrangement, Ulster Unionist MPs would take the Tory whip and be offered posts in any future government. It would pave the way for the Conservatives to fight seats in Northern Ireland for the first time since the early days of the...
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Is it coincidence that no sooner does the House of Commons rise for a three month holiday than holidaymakers swimming off the southern French coast start complaining about an invasion of jellyfish. Now we all know where the politicians go during their magnificent tax-payer funded vacation....
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David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Full coverage of the US Elections 2008 The revelation that 28 out of 91 Tory MPs responding to a survey want Barack Obama to win the US presidency is alarming testimony to the political illiteracy of the contemporary Conservative Party. Obama's voting record earned him the title of most liberal US senator in 2007, a dubious honour held by John Kerry in 2003. The Tories, in their lemming-lik...
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Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Whether it’s the UUP that he should be merging with is one thing: David Cameron is to launch the biggest shake-up of the Conservative Party for decades as part of a bold plan to win support across the whole of the United Kingdom. The Tories are to forge a new party [...]
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An Englishman's Castle (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
David Cameron launches biggest Conservative shake-up for decades - Telegraph Under the new arrangement, Ulster Unionist MPs would take the Tory whip and be offered posts in any future government. The move to restore a link severed more than 30...
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news rage uk | 20/04/2008
Political assassination is always an interesting thing to watch. I remembered seeing it happen to Thatcher and its effects made long lasting and deep, near fatal wounds on the conservative party. They never recovered even after Major won a general election after Thatcher's departure and it is only now, 18 years after her departure that they are beginning to look like a united party again. The...
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news rage uk | 18/04/2008
Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry. I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise...
