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• Queen should call snap election over MPs expenses, campaigner says

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Malcolm Blair-Robinson has written to three party leaders plus the palace warning next weeks state opening of parliament may be unconstitutional The Queen should call a snap election to clean up parliament in the wake of the row over MPs expenses, it was claimed today. Constitutional campaigner Malcolm ...
  1 day ago

• Labour sends in big guns for byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson will join Labours candidate, Willie Bain, in the Glasgow North East constituency today, following Gordon Browns visit on Friday Two senior cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow today to help drum up votes for Labour as campaigning in the citys byelection enters its last days. ...
  2 days ago

• Queen leads remembrance of war dead

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Monarch lays wreath at Cenotaph in London as MoD announces death of UK soldier in Afghanistan The Queen today led Britain in the countrys remembrance of its war dead at the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. After a two-minute silence in Whitehall at 11am, the monarch led politicians and ...
  3 days ago

• Kellys MPs expenses proposals may be overruled

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The man appointed to oversee the future expenses regime for MPs will not necessarily implement the proposals published by Sir Christopher Kelly, but will instead conduct a wide-ranging review of his own. The three leaders of the main political parties and Kelly, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, ...
  4 days ago

• Imagine having a well-paid job for life

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 502
  So starts Nick Clegg’s comments in the latest Channel 4 Political Slot film from the party, featuring himself and Sarah Teather talking about changing our political system: You may find the opening contains an electoral statistic which sounds rather familiar . I wonder if this post will make it to national TV ...
  5 days ago

• Another corny Clegg headline

  
  Anders Hanson — Authority: 103
  Headline writers clearly love their play on words, but the latest one from the Sheffield Star in an article by the, (entirely unrelated), Rachael Clegg is another stunner: All work, rest and clay for leader Clegg The reason being that Nick Clegg apparently enjoys clay sculpting in his spare time.  As well as ...
  5 days ago

• Leaders back MPs expenses proposals

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg pledge their support for the recommendations of the chairman of the committee on standards in public life All three main party leaders today gave their backing to Sir Christopher Kellys proposals for a radical overhaul of MPs expenses as it was announced that the chairman ...
  6 days ago

• Our politicians all claim to be against the status quo. How ridiculous

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  In an age light on ideology, being against the staus quo is a position that can be held with fervour because no one claims to be the opposite I am haunted by visions of government by Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt . It is part of being a child of the late Seventies and early Eighties, coming of age alongside ...
  1 week ago

• The LDV Saturday caption competition - Nick Cleggs desk job

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Theres no prize at stake - just the opportunity to prove youre wittier than any other LDV reader ... [IMG: nickclegg-bradfordeast] Heres Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg campaigning in Bradford East – what do you think he might be saying/thinking? The winner of last weeks Nick Griffin caption competition (according to The ...
  1 week ago

• Politics and Money: Should the Big-Bucks US Campaigns Concern Britain?

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 633
  Receive our latest updates by email or RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help Enduring America Expand Its Coverage and Analysis In the 1940s and 1950s, my family looked forward to the arrival of so-called care packages from our better-off relatives in New York. The goodies were marvellous. ...
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• Clash of the Titans it aint! Teignbridge MP Richard Younger Ross on his week in Parliament

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Teignbridge MP Richard Younger Ross’s column on his week in Parliament. Privitisation, Equitable Life and Climate Change. What else goes on in Parliament? Oh yes, Double Talk. Double Talk One piece of curious double-talk last week came from Gordon Brown himself when he told Nick Clegg that the UK would make a ...
  1 week ago

• Tony Blair, Radovan Karadzic and the EU presidency

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  George Monbiots characteristic rant against Tony Blair ( Comment , 27 October) appeared on the same day you reported on the trial of Dr Radovan Karadzic. For much of the 1990s there was a general air of appeasement, not least in the House of Commons, about events in the former Yugoslavia and the siege of Sarajevo. ...
  1 week ago

• Nick Clegg interviewed by The Third Estate

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  The Third Estate has an exclusive interview with the Liberal Democrat leader: "None of these choices are easy, at any time," he says. "But weve got to be straight with people about what can be afforded right now. Ive set out a radical programme that would make our society fairer, and give every child - no matter their ...
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• PMQs – as it happened

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Minute-by-minute coverage from midday 11.31am: Gordon Brown will be in the Commons at noon for his usual half an hour of knockabout with the Conservative leader, David Cameron . The fate of Northern Rock is likely to surface, after the European commissions ruling on its breakup today. Some are arguing that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Speaker Bercow tells Nick: no inquiry into MPs flipping or CGT evasion

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Two weeks ago, Nick Clegg wrote to Sir Thomas Legg – in the wake of Sir Thomass decision to recommend MPs repay public money if they had been found to have overclaimed expenses for cleaning and gardening – asking that he examine the most serious allegations levelled against MPs: ... when your inquiry was first ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blair wrong man for EU job, says Clegg

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Tony Blairs chances of becoming the EU president were dealt a blow today when Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, rejected his candidacy and evidence emerged that Germany has been spooked by the scale of the hostility from David Cameron. Blair did however win the explicit backing of the French foreign minister, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Labour Government fail Equitable Life policy holders

  
  Andrew Reeves' Running Blog - but what am I running for..... — Authority: 542
  I appreciate that neither the Government nor the main Opposition Party are going to want to be seen supporting a Liberal Democrats Opposition day debate or motion, however, the two topics that Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats chose have only highlighted the sheer hypocricy on the other benches. Back in 2001 when ...
  2 weeks ago

• LDVideo - Nick, Nick and Nickers

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Okay, Ive bowed to popular opinion – the Hazel Blears-inspired title for our occasional video round-ups, YouTube cos we want to, is no more. Instead youre getting the drably named LDVideo. BUT just because youve made me drop my punning motif doesnt mean the videos that follow are anything less than scintillating. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nick Cleggs The Liberal Moment: Chapter 7

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  I said my last post on this pamphlet was the penultimate one. I was wrong. Because this one is about the "The Social Crisis" and I have just discovered there is another crisis after that. I suppose the social crisis counts a milder, Liberal Democrat version of David Camerons broken Britain. It seems to consist in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video: Simon Hughes on the Liberal Democrats 10:10 campaign motion

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  The 10:10 campaign is calling for a commitment to a 10% cut in the UKs carbon emissions in 2010. Its aimed at individuals, businesses, schools, politicians – in fact, everyone in the UK. At 4pm today, Parliament will be debating the following motion, submitted by Simon Hughes MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Energy ...
  2 weeks ago

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