Labour leader Ed Miliband has urged David Cameron to drop plans to overhaul the NHS, branding the government's flagship Health and Social Care Bill a "complete disaster".
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Conservative MPs have called on the home secretary to "become a national hero" by ignoring a judgement from the European Court of Human Rights and deporting a terror suspect to Jordan immediately.
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The marketing of the Top Totty beer which has been dropped from the House of Commons Strangers' Bar was "nothing worse than you would see on a saucy postcard", said Andrew Griffiths MP.
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The taxpayer should pay for MPs to have iPad-style tablet computers at a cost of around £250,000, according to a House of Commons advisory committee.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague has hit out at Russia and China's veto of a recent UN Security Council resolution on Syria, describing the decision as "a betrayal of the Syrian people".
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It was Sir John Major, as prime minister, who said that the British would forever be defined by their love of "warm beer".
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Ministers will "unwind" any tax avoidance schemes being used by public sector employees, Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander has announced.
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A beer called Top Totty has been banned from the Strangers’ Bar in the House of Commons because its pump plate, featuring a half-naked woman, offended female MPs. Well how obsurd! This is just another example of the ridiculous PC nature that has been allowed to creep into British society through the cotton wool and
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Shabana Mahmood MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Higher Education, has written to David Willetts following the Urgent Question which took place in the House of Commons this morning on the pay and tax arrangements for the Chief Executive of the Student Loans Company. Following her letter, she added:
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A beer called Top Totty has been banned from the Strangers' Bar in the House of Commons because its pump plate, featuring a half-naked woman, offended female MPs.
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