Yesterday London Underground announced it is to axe up to 800 jobs under plans to make savings of GBP16 million a year. The cuts will include 100 managers, 450 ticket office posts and up to 200 other jobs, although London Underground (LU) said it was committed to achieving the losses without any compulsory redundancies.
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Asylum seekers who claimed they were assaulted by security staff hired by the Home Office did not have their complaints properly investigated, an official report found.
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A new beefed-up Downing Street press office will greet David Cameron if he wins the general election.
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Thousands of police officers face being axed and replaced by civilian staff to save money, a report for the Home Office has signalled.
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Vanity Fair may not be the sort of magazine in which elections are won or lost, but it contains a profile of David Cameron this month which seems far more assured than current reality might have us think. Interestingly, Conservative Central Office appear to have been in a bit of a tiz about it because of a quote from Ed Vaizey, the shadow culture minister. Vaizey has been a bit too loquacious of l...
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Incoming Conservative government may have to call a referendum on a new European Union treaty soon after taking office.
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Labour minister Sadiq Khan has urged all MPs to forgo a £1,000 pay rise to rebuild public trust in their office.
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The absurdity of appointing a never-elected, inexperienced, politically correct bureaucrat as the EU’s first foreign minister is slowly coming back to haunt Brussels. With less than 100 days in office, Catherine Ashton has fluctuated between Brussels’ laughing stock and its...
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A UUP delegation claims Martin McGuinness told them to "get out" of his office after an argument over policing and justice powers.
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Hundreds more town hall staff and private security guards are to be handed police-style powers in a fresh Home Office drive to create an army of civilian "spies".
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