Tories push kids into poverty; Labour says "give up"
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Share prices are going up. Profits are increasing. Top bosses' pay is soaring. And child poverty is rising almost as fast.
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Royal Mail sold off in 2014
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The government plans to sell off Royal Mail, in what will be the largest privatisation since British Gas 26 years ago.
Labour councillor says: “You don’t stand as Labour to cut services”
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Geoff Lumley is Labour Councillor for Newport East on the Isle of Wight.
Thatcher saved their Britain, their privileges
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Andrew Gamble is professor of politics at Cambridge University, and author of the major left-wing analysis of Thatcherism, The Free Economy and the Strong State.
Blair calls Labour to “centre ground”
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Tony Blair, fresh from joining the praise for Margaret Thatcher and saying that as prime minister he sought to “build on” what she had done rather than reverse it, has again blasted Ed Miliband’s Labour leadership as being too left-wing.
Thatcher: now her politics must die
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If we believed in a hell, we would have no doubt Margaret Thatcher would now be in it.
Labour must make a positive case for welfare
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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, as the Kevin Spacey character argues in The Usual Suspects, is convincing the world that he doesn’t exist.
Better to break the whip than vote for cuts
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Gary Wareing is one of the “Hull Three”, three Labour councillors who voted against a cuts budget on the city’s Labour-controlled council. Along with Dean Kirk and Gill Kennett, Gary has been suspended from the Labour group.
Labour backs Tory unpaid labour scheme
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Labour MPs helped get the coalition off the hook over the “workfare” scandal that saw three appeal court judges rule that the work-for-free-or-lose-your-benefits schemes to which over 200,000 unemployed workers have been subjected are unlawful.
Public health, not private profit
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The government is continuing its attempts to formally privatise the National Health Service by stealth.