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David Laws: We can cut taxes for middle- and lower-income Britain while asking for a bigger contribution from the top 1%-5% of earners [...] Read more ...
David Laws: We can cut taxes for middle- and lower-income Britain while asking for a bigger contribution from the top 1%-5% of earners [...] Read more ...
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The focus of Labour’s defence policy is the protection of our citizens and interests at home and overseas. The context in which we undertake [...] Read more ...
Chester MP Stephen Mosley has opened a debate in Parliament about the death of 15 year old Kevin Williams at the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. The debate was triggered after Kevin’s mother, Chester resident Anne Williams, started an e-petition that received over 100,000 signatures and called on the Attorney General to order a new inquest into Kevin [...] Read more ...
Douglas Carswell MP discusses the government monopoly of the money supply and how the internet could pave the way for new possibilities in alternative currencies and legal tender. Whilst at The Real Asset Co we would recommend the return to a fully-backed sound money system, Mr Carswell’s proposals go a long way to confronting the actions of cent [...] Read more ...
That this House expects the Government to respect the ruling by the Information Commissioner and to publish the risk register associated with the Health and Social Care Bill reforms in advance of Report Stage in the House of Lords in order to ensure that [...] Read more ...
"Pressure on family finances is reaching boiling point and people need help. That is why Liberal Democrats believe we should be cutting taxes for millions of working people across this country. "The Liberal Democrat plan to make the first £10,000 you earn tax-free would deliver a £700 tax cut for ordinary working people -- that's an extra £60 of [...] Read more ...
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Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con): This debate is on behalf of my constituent, Mrs Anne Williams, to help seek the truth about what happened to her 15-year-old son, Kevin, at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. All that Mrs Williams asks for is the truth, and I hope that that message is given loud and clear to my right hon. and learned Friend th [...] Read more ...
In Tatton, Cheshire, the constituency of Chancellor George Osborne, 235 families with 270 kids are affected, while in Prime Minister David Cameron’s constituency of Witney, Oxfordshire, 200 parents with 395 children will lose out. He said: “At a time when many Glaswegians are finding it tough to work, this is an disgraceful attack on working f [...] Read more ...
Hamas official: Movement's leadership agrees to stick to unity deal, settles internal row [...] Read more ...
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There are problems with the current system of voting, and I have tried to outline these issues while explaining how a ‘One Member, One Vote’ (OMOV) system can address them. Currently, each affiliated club can send delegates to National Conference with voting rights. All members are told how they can apply to be a delegate: they must email their [...] Read more ...
THE marathon fight for cash pledged to more than 6,500 former Longbridge workers reaches court next week – nearly seven years after MG Rover collapsed. Read more ...
ROLLS-ROYCE has announced profits in excess of £1 billion for the first time. The firm has detailed its record order book and record underlying revenue and profit in its full year report. In its Civil Aerospace division, Rolls reported an order book of nearly £52 billion, 7% up on 2010. Read more ...
This morning I was on BBC Essex talking about Britain's problems with youth unemployment, and my plan to create 120,00 new apprentices - by asking Government suppliers to employ them. We also talked about the Parliamentary Academy - a school that I have set up with the charity New Deal of the Mind, [...] Read more ...
Call comes as Lib Dem activists table Spring Conference motion calling for section of Health Bill to be scrapped Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, speaking ahead of Labour’s [...] Read more ...
Earlier this evening I was proud to be at Wallasey Town Hall to hear Cllr Jeff Green, Conservative Leader of the Council deliver a budget th [...] Read more ...
On Monday, Inside Out London featured the shops on Goldhawk Road and Shepherds Bush Market that – if the council get their way – will be demolished to make way for developer Orion’s 212 luxury flats. This represents one of [...] Read more ...
Birmingham Chamber hasn't just come off the fence on elected mayors, it's become the campaign's cheerleader-in-chief. The organisation that represents the interests of thousands of small and med [...] Read more ...
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Great event in Wandsworth with @seemamalhotra1 @annaturley and gla candidate @leoniec for fab Labour women! http://t.co/PMlObMYW [...] Read more ...
The slugfest continues between Chevron and lawyers representing a group of Amazon Indians in Ecuador. But after one of the largest court judgments for environmental damage in history, a growing number of shareholders are asking the board to back off. Read more ...
The Wrexham branch of clothing chain Peacocks has closed its doors for the last time today it has been announced. The troubled firm was brought out of administration by Edinburgh Woollen Mill earlier today saving 388 stores in the process. However, administrators KPMG confirmed that the Wrexham branch was one of the 224 which would be closing resul [...] Read more ...
The Tax Incentivised Savings Association is to spearhead a cross industry research project aimed at finding a solution to small pot transfers, as divisions emerged between leading pension trade bodies. Read more ...
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Dolphins and whales should be considered non-human “persons” with basic rights such as life, liberty and well-being, the world’s largest science conference heard in Vancouver [...] Read more ...
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The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee on Wednesday urged Germany to abolish the surgical castration of sex offenders, warning that the operation could amount to "degrading treatment." [...] Read more ...
The way was now clear for EDF to buy nuclear reactors from Areva to build in Britain. If they decide not to go ahead, DECC’s current low carbon energy policy collapses in ruins. Taking up their option in the deal with EDF would cost some £5 billion. This is fortunate as it is now looking increasingly likely that there will be no new nuclear powe [...] Read more ...
All men should be routinely tested for prostate cancer every three years the same as women have mammograms for breast cancer.This is done by a simple blood test to check P.S.A.levels .It could save hundreds of lives [...] Read more ...
Still, the concept of human race as an objective biological reality persists in science and in society. What he found was unambiguous—and the inverse of what one would expect if such races had any biological reality: The great majority of genetic variation (85.4 percent) was within so-called races, not between them. The genetic divergence between [...] Read more ...
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With the City Council both freezing its Council Tax and freezing the allowances paid to City Councillors it is troubling that the County Council is still running a "public consultation" exercise on the current levels of remuneration for County Councillors. As you know the previous "Independent Remuneration Panel" (IRP) advised the Council that [...] Read more ...
