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• Speaker Wants Parties to Declare How Many Ethnic Candidates They Reject

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 612
  In what can only be described as one of the most bizarre examples of “New Tory” thought, the House of Commons Speaker wants to force parties to publicly reveal how many ethnic minority members they reject as parliamentary candidates. Apart from ethnic “minorities,” parties will also be forced to state how ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  26 November session Recession and unemployment Britains dole queues will continue to lengthen "for a while", the chancellor, Alistair Darling, warned. Darling insisted the country was coming out of recession and would return to growth "around the turn of the year". In the final days debate on the Queens speech, ...
  3 days ago

• Conservatives should really learn to take "no" for an answer

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 544
  Update (8:55 p.m.) below. Pushing back hard achieves results: "Speaker rules flyers may have damaged MPs reputation." A clear ruling by the Speaker in response to MP Irwin Cotlers complaint on the egregious ten percenters authored by the Conservative party: The Conservatives may have damaged the reputation of ...
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• Review recommends pay rise for peers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Senior Salaries Review Board proposes single daily allowance for Lords, which amounts to £38.50 increase A review into the system of Lords allowances initiated after the expenses scandal has recommended that peers should receive what amounts to a pay rise. In June 2009 the government asked the Senior Salaries ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  25 November session Iraq inquiry Gordon Brown was accused of attempting to "suffocate" the Iraq inquiry by imposing restrictions on what information could be released in Sir John Chilcots final report. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said Whitehall departments had "outrageously" been given the right to ...
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• Ian Sample on a Commons inquiry into homeopathy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ian Sample on the MPs investigation into whether there is sufficient evidence to dispense homeopathy on the NHS Ian Sample
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• Parliamentary reform starts here | Michael Meacher

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The Wright committees modest proposals will be resisted by whips, but they might not get their way this time The significance of this weeks publication of the House of Commons reform committee report, entitled Rebuilding the House , has been largely swamped by the press spectacular over the Chilcot Iraqgate ...
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• Simon Hoggarts sketch: The value of a Scottish education

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Pomp and pronunciation from the PM. Pearls and a paeon of praise from Lord Sugar Sir Patrick Cormack rose in his pomp at prime ministers questions today. "When," he demanded, "did the prime minister realise he was infallible?" Actually the last word was buried in jeering and general noise, so we were not quite sure ...
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• Will there be a hung parliament at the next general election?

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  I hope so. Rope is cheaper than bullets, after all…
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• Obama To Attend Copenhagen Climate Change Summit - WJZ

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  Obama To Attend Copenhagen Climate Change Summit - WJZ President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit. The president will attend the summit on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept Source: ...
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• Hillier, other military leaders to testify on detainees

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  Rick Hillier will appear before a House of Commons special committee Wednesday, when the former chief of defence staff is expected to rebut a claim that he was warned about the dangers of his troops handing over detainees in Afghanistan
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  24 November session Floods Flooding on the scale seen in Cumbria over recent days will become more frequent due to climate change, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, warned. He said people in the rain-lashed county were battling with the "worst flooding in memory". Miliband said: "We must act not just to adapt to ...
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• Diana coroner to join expense watchdog

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Lord Justice Scott Baker is to join the board of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority The judge who sat as coroner in the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to join the new independent body overseeing MPs expenses. Lord Justice Scott Baker and three other candidates for the board of ...
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• Homeopathy: MPs grill experts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has called in homeopaths and scientists to discuss evidence for the alternative therapy The meeting has now concluded. Read what happened below 8.32am: It would be nice to think ministers made policy decisions on the basis of sound scientific evidence, but ...
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• Britons Want to Decrease Legal Immigration

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  People in Britain believe too many immigrants are entering the country, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 68 per cent of respondents think the number of legal immigrants who are allowed to relocate in the United Kingdom should decrease.In June 2007, Gordon Brown officially became Labour leader and ...
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• Do the Wright thing

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown is in danger of losing the plot about the need to fix our politics. Never the most decisive protagonist in the expenses crisis, last week he left both expenses and electoral reform out of the Queens speech. He then said nothing at all about mending the political system when he spoke to MPs at the start of ...
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• This wont rebuild the Commons | Natascha Engel

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  I cant support my committees response to the MPs expenses scandal, as it fails to address the democratic deficit Today parliament publishes its response to the MPs expenses scandal. A special select committee on parliamentary reform was set up by Gordon Brown and it has published a report called Rebuilding the ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  November 23 session Afghanistan David Miliband, the foreign secretary, defended continuing British military involvement in Afghanistan in the face of growing unrest among MPs. He said it was "completely reasonable" to stick with the plan of building up Afghan security forces, to withstand Taliban insurgency. But ...
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• Let backbenchers have more say, MPs demand

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Committee urges quick vote on Commons reform • Call for public to suggest debates via e-petitions "Achievable" but radical change to rebuild parliaments independence from the executive, including a new body of elected backbenchers responsible for organising Commons business, is proposed today by a prestigious ...
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• MPs expenses: police send files on four MPs and peers to CPS

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Director of prosecutions to decide if trials take place • Accused parliamentarians all deny wrongdoing Scotland Yard believes it has uncovered enough evidence to bring criminal charges against four MPs and peers for allegedly abusing their expenses. Police announced they had sent files of evidence concerning ...
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