The Camerons face the inevitable in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom, by Iain Hollingshead.
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Anita Anand could not resist the chance to work out with American footballers ahead of Superbowl weekend to review the rough and tumble of the last week at Westminster.
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The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has just announced that Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne and his former wife VIcky Pryce will be charged with perverting the course of justice. They will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 16th February. It is expected that Chris Huhne will now step down from
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Labour Westminster Councillors say that the prospect of the election of a new Leader of Westminster City Council by just 48 Conservative Councillors, 47 of whom consistently voted to support outgoing Leader Colin Barrow's failed West End parking charge plans, is an 'insult to democracy'. Labour say that the new Leader of the Council should be elected by all 250,000 Westminster resid...
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Labour MP Kate Green says she's "disturbed" to learn that a beer named Top Totty is on sale in the Palace of Westminster with "a picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap".
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Liberal Democrat Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore MP writes a regular column for local newspapers in his constituency. Here’s this week’s edition. Jobs Economic recovery and jobs remain the most important issues for people here in the Borders and last week was tough in terms of unemployment news. There has sadly been an
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Lords leader says an upper chamber containing ‘the voice of people who want to break up the UK’ would be positive for Westminster
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There's Caledonian chaos for Clegg, Cameron and co in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom, by Iain Hollingshead.
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Telegraph on 28th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
I'm presenting Radio Four's Week in Westminster this morning, on deficit wars, London wars, welfare wars, and another set of wars which no one has really discussed yet: the directly-elected police commissioners. There will be about 40 of them elected in November, and candidates are already emerging: Nick Ross (ex-Crimewatch), Colonel Tim Collins and London mayoral hopeful Brian Paddick. ...
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