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Jan 27

Shifting the deckchairs on RMS Europe as the iceberg approaches

The delivery was delayed by the Algerian hostage crisis but David Cameron finally gave his much trailed speech on the future of Britain in the European Union this week. As is often the way with the pronouncements of Citizen Dave it stirred up a fresh set of problems. Amidst much waffle about giving the British …

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Nov 26

Osborne to halt 3p fuel duty rise

Chancellor to cancel 3p increase planned for January after coming under pressure from campaigners and backbenchers

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Nov 04

Fancy footwork over Europe won’t win the next election for Labour

This has been another bad week for David Cameron’s beleaguered government. On Wednesday they suffered a humiliating defeat in the commons over the EU budget at the hands of a coalition of Tory rebels and Labour MPs. The Tory rebels wanted a real terms budget cut for 2014/2020; the Labour Party wanted to land a …

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Oct 30

County and City in £1bn Bid for Jobs

Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent City Councils are to asking for greater power and finance from Government to drive economic growth and create thousands of new jobs in a £1bn bid. Representatives from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent travelled to London yesterday as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and local government minister Mark Prisk formally announced a second …

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Sep 30

Is this the death knell for the Lib Dems?

At a time when the country needs them, the party seems intent on self-destruction

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Sep 29

First-time buyers increasingly rely on the bank of mum and dad

Tough mortgage criteria and high house prices mean family help is the only way many people can get a mortgage

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Sep 23

Michael Gove- the man who shot GCSE’s just to watch them die

The GCSE is no more, killed off by endlessly busy Education Secretary Michael Gove, it will be replaced in 2015 by the English Baccalaureate, or EBacc to its friends.  The new qualification will do away with modules, most re-sits and see grades decided by a single exam at the end of two years study. There …

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