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Danny Alexander squirms when pressed on tuition fees vote

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander became the latest senior Liberal Democrat cabinet minister to fail to declare his hand on Question Time last night – repeatedly refusing to say whether...

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Coalition savaged by dead sheep and Salmond

One of the Conservative party’s elder statesmen has used an interview with BBC Radio Wales to accuse the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition of not being stable As David Cameron sought to give a boost to...

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Warnings of “perfect storm” of industrial action in Scotland

Scottish finance secretary John Swinney is this week expected to make a statement to MSPs criticising the UK government’s reforms to public service pensions and to outline the SNP’s own plans for...

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Danny Alexander repeats the ‘big lie’ that pension reform needed to stop...

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has defended the Coalition’s intentions to ask public sector workers to pay up to £3,000 per year more for their pensions this morning, on the old...

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Only quarter of voters want to scrap 50p tax

A new poll shows that just 25 per cent of voters – including only a third of Tory voters – would support the abolition of the 50p tax rate. The findings suggest that Chief Secretary to the Treasury,...

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IFS: Education spending will “shrink” at fastest rate “since at least the 1950s”

A new report today reveals education spending will be slashed by more than 13 per cent over this parliament – the largest cut since at least the fifties. Contrasting the cuts ahead with Labour’s record...

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French leaders attack Cameron’s “red carpet” invite to tax exiles as Carr...

  . George Osborne may have called tax avoiders “morally repugnant” in the budget, with his deputy Danny Alexander today describing them (£) as the “moral equivalent of benefit cheats”, but for their...

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The Coalition is too timid and too tame – Wales deserves better

  . Owen Smith MP (Labour, Pontypridd) is shadow secretary of State for Wales. So, it started in earnest, the latest Coalition re-launch, and this time they’ve started on page 6 of the standard...

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Alexander at odds with Osborne over UK credit rating

  . What a difference a year makes. A year ago George Osborne hailed the UK’s AAA credit rating as a reaffirmation of the government’s economic policy but today his deputy at the Treasury, Danny...

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And the next leader of the Liberal Democrats is…

One tipped as a future leader of the Liberal Democrats, Chris Huhne’s political career is all but over. It would require a Lazarus-style comeback for him to get anywhere near the leadership of the Lib...

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Government accused of stealing over £90m of funding for new council homes

  Tom Copley, the housing spokesperson for the Labour London Assembly, has accused the government of ‘stealing’ over £90m of funding for new council homes in the capital. In November, Copley wrote a...

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Coalition savaged by dead sheep and Salmond

One of the Conservative party’s elder statesmen has used an interview with BBC Radio Wales to accuse the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition of not being stable As David Cameron sought to give a boost to...

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Warnings of “perfect storm” of industrial action in Scotland

Scottish finance secretary John Swinney is this week expected to make a statement to MSPs criticising the UK government’s reforms to public service pensions and to outline the SNP’s own plans for...

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Danny Alexander repeats the ‘big lie’ that pension reform needed to stop...

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has defended the Coalition’s intentions to ask public sector workers to pay up to £3,000 per year more for their pensions this morning, on the old...

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Only quarter of voters want to scrap 50p tax

A new poll shows that just 25 per cent of voters – including only a third of Tory voters – would support the abolition of the 50p tax rate. The findings suggest that Chief Secretary to the Treasury,...

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IFS: Education spending will “shrink” at fastest rate “since at least the 1950s”

A new report today reveals education spending will be slashed by more than 13 per cent over this parliament – the largest cut since at least the fifties. Contrasting the cuts ahead with Labour’s record...

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French leaders attack Cameron’s “red carpet” invite to tax exiles as Carr...

  . George Osborne may have called tax avoiders “morally repugnant” in the budget, with his deputy Danny Alexander today describing them (£) as the “moral equivalent of benefit cheats”, but for their...

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The Coalition is too timid and too tame – Wales deserves better

  . Owen Smith MP (Labour, Pontypridd) is shadow secretary of State for Wales. So, it started in earnest, the latest Coalition re-launch, and this time they’ve started on page 6 of the standard...

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Alexander at odds with Osborne over UK credit rating

  . What a difference a year makes. A year ago George Osborne hailed the UK’s AAA credit rating as a reaffirmation of the government’s economic policy but today his deputy at the Treasury, Danny...

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And the next leader of the Liberal Democrats is…

One tipped as a future leader of the Liberal Democrats, Chris Huhne’s political career is all but over. It would require a Lazarus-style comeback for him to get anywhere near the leadership of the Lib...

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