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Shadow Transport Secretary Sadiq Khan MP, responding to reports of the Coalition’s plan to raise the free bus pass age earlier than planned, said: “David Cameron owes the public an apology today. His mock outrage during the General Election campaign has ...Read More 19/07/2010 |
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"The Government's position on the cancer guarantee is now a complete shambles" - Burnham |
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Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP responding to the Government’s confusion over the cancer guarantee said: "This debacle confirms what we suspected - that the Tories are making up health policy as they go along. The Government's position on the cancer guarante ...Read More 17/07/2010 |
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Responding to this month’s unemployment figures, Yvette Cooper Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions said: “These figures show just why it is dangerous and callous to cut support for jobs and the economy. “May's small ...Read More 16/07/2010 |
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"Those who are fit for work should be working or seeking work" - Yvette Cooper MP |
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Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said in response to reports of possible Incapacity Benefit changes: "Those who are fit for work should be working or seeking work. “Labour's reforms were due to get around a million people ...Read More 29/06/2010 |
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Armed Forces Day a time to recognise their service to our country - Ainsworth |
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Bob Ainsworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary, on Armed Forces Day said: "Today is an opportunity for people up and down the country to recognise the achievements and sacrifices of our outstanding servicemen and women and veterans. Their bravery ...Read More 28/06/2010 |
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Philip Hammond's admission that families on £25-30k will lose tax credits - Yvette Cooper MP |
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Responding to Philip Hammond's admission on the Daily Politics on Wednesday 23 June that families earning between £25,000 and £30,000 will lose their tax credits as a result of the Budget, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper MP said: ...Read More 28/06/2010 |
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Labour's NEC agrees timetable for the election of next Leader of the Labour Party |
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Labour’s National Executive Committee has today agreed on a timetable for the election of the next leader of the Labour Party. Acting Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman MP, said: “Over the next few months, up to 4 million people will have the chance to help sha ...Read More 18/05/2010 |
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Gordon Brown today in Downing Street gave the following statement: "We have a parliamentary and not presidential system in this country and as I said on Friday, with no party able to command a parliamentary majority arising from the general election, my constitutiona ...Read More 10/05/2010 |
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Peter Mandelson, Labour's Chair of Election Strategy, has this evening issued his fifth "State of the Race" memo to Labour Party members and supporters. Around the country, party members are working furiously to get out the vote for tomorrow. It is st ...Read More 05/05/2010 |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, said in a speech at Bradford University:Tomorro ...Read More 05/05/2010 |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party said: "You know, it’s been pretty relentless. Non-stop, on the go, never a moment’s let up, working round the clock. I don’t mean the last four w ...Read More 05/05/2010 |
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Would you bet your future on the judgement of George Osborne? |
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Alistair Darling, Labour’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at the Centrepoint building in London this morning said: "The choice this week couldn't matter more. I can tell you from personal experience - when faced with the scale of ...Read More 05/05/2010 |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown was today joined by Olympic stars of the future at Loughborough University, one of the UK's leading sports science institutions, to launch Labour's Sports Manifesto. It explains Labour's plans for a golden decade of sport in Britain, and for young pe ...Read More 30/04/2010 |
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Tories' lack of judgement is a danger to Britain's economy - Alistair Darling |
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Alistair Darling, Labour's Chancellor, today in Edinburgh, gave a speech on the economy where he highlighted the danger posed by the Tories' lack of judgement: "It has not, I admit, been an easy time to be Chancellor – here in the UK or anywhere ...Read More 30/04/2010 |
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Alan Johnson, Labour’s Home Secretary, Peter Mandelson, Labour’s Business Secretary and John Denham, Labour's Communities Secretary, today set out Labour’s tough policies on CCTV, DNA evidence, Community Payback and Labour’s crack-down on anti-social behaviour ...Read More 30/04/2010 |
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Yvette Cooper, Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to David Cameron’s speech this morning and the IFS’s criticism of Tory policy on tax credits, said: "David Cameron talks down Britain by claiming we are broken - but how ...Read More 27/04/2010 |
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Labour’s fourth election film shifts the focus of the election campaign onto Conservative policies and how they would make families worse off. The broadcast is a nightmare vision of the future following the election of a Conservative government. ...Read More 27/04/2010 |
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Labour’s manifesto for families – “Your Family, Your Choice" |
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Peter Mandelson, Labour's Chair of Election Strategy, Ed Balls, Labour's Schools Secretary, and Yvette Cooper, Labour's Work and Pensions Secretary today set out Labour’s manifesto for families at a press conference in London. Peter Mande ...Read More 27/04/2010 |
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Harriet Harman and David Miliband today joined leading Labour BAME candidates, including Keith Vaz, Chuka Umunna, Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler, to launch Labour’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) manifesto. The BAME manifes ...Read More 26/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, speaking today at the RCN Conference in Bournemouth, said: “Last summer, a campaign built up in response to comments by a member of the European Parliament who said the NHS was a sixty ...Read More 24/04/2010 |
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Labour launches Health Manifesto: an NHS guaranteed to all, personal to each |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has today launched Labour's Health Manifesto, Your Personal NHS Guarantee. Labour outlines our plan for a better NHS. An NHS that is on the side of the patient, not the system. ...Read More 24/04/2010 |
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Tory school plans can only mean cuts to other schools – Ed Balls |
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Ed Balls, Labour’s Schools Secretary responding to comments from the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Conservative Cabinet Member for schools in Hampshire said: "These leading Conservative councillors with real experience ...Read More 24/04/2010 |
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Peter Mandelson, Labour's Chair of Election Strategy, has this evening issued his fourth "State of the Race" memo to Labour Party members and supporters. From: Peter Mandelson To: Labour members, supporters and other interested parties ...Read More 26/04/2010 |
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Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, speaking at a young people's mobilisation event in Central London said today: "You know it is one of the great myths perpetrated by the media that young people do not care about politics. But my experience is ...Read More 26/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband launch Labour's Green Manifesto |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, Labour’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, today launched Labour’s Green Manifesto at a young people’s mobilisation event in London. The Green Manifesto shows how Labour wou ...Read More 26/04/2010 |
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Liam Byrne, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to David Cameron's interview with Jeremy Paxman tonight: "Tonight under Jeremy Paxman's scrutiny David Cameron couldn't give one example of where his savings would come from or wher ...Read More 24/04/2010 |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown and John Healey, Labour's Housing Minister, today launched Labour's housing manifesto, setting out how Labour will help provide everyone with a secure, decent and affordable home in a safe community. ...Read More 24/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has made a speech on the economy at City College, Coventry: "It is a huge pleasure to be here with you today, with young people, with your working lives ahead of you. I am proud of the role t ...Read More 24/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today held a press conference at Labour HQ on the future of the economy. Gordon Brown said: "This is not a game show, or just a ...Read More 23/04/2010 |
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Tonight the three leaders of the main parties will debate foreign affairs. In our country, that means a heated debate about Europe, and it is Europe that I want to address today. The argument is simple. It is that Europe is a good litmus test for wheth ...Read More 22/04/2010 |
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Ed Balls, Labour’s Schools Secretary, today responded to the Tory shadow schools minister’s admission that more than 750 new school building projects in 90 local authorities across England could be scrapped if the Tories are elected. These form part of Labour’s ambi ...Read More 22/04/2010 |
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Alan Johnson, Labour's Home Secretary, commenting on quarterly crime statistics for England and Wales that were published today, said: "Today's figures show that crime has fallen. "If we are going to have an honest debate o ...Read More 21/04/2010 |
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Labour today set out new plans for a job guarantee for the long term unemployed and vowed to continue support for jobs and the economy until the recovery is secure. Latest figures show overall unemployment increased in the three months to February, whilst the claimant count fell in M ...Read More 20/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, was joined by Peter Mandelson and Ed Miliband today to launch Labour's Plan for Growth. The launch took place at BMW's MINI car plant in Oxford, which benefited from the Gover ...Read More 20/04/2010 |
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Labour fields more women candidates than ever before. Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, today joined Stella Creasy and women parliamentary candidates in Walthamstow to release 'Your voice, Your choice' profiling Labour's women candidates and setting out the ...Read More 19/04/2010 |
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Labour is the Party of recovery - Conservative plans pose great risk |
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At a press conference in the City today, Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, Chancellor, Alistair Darling and Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson, reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to securing the economic recovery. Alistair Darling gave journalists a glimpse of a future unf ...Read More 19/04/2010 |
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Labour announces Forces Charter to guarantee rights of Britain’s troops and Veterans |
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Labour will today set out its commitment to protecting Britain's security and supporting our troops. The Defence, Veterans and National Security manifesto places these issues at the heart of Labour's plan for Britain's future. The manifesto will ...Read More 17/04/2010 |
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Douglas Alexander, Labour's General Election Coordinator, today made a speech to activists and staff and London Labour Headquarters: Thank you. It’s great to be here at the headquarters of Labour’s London campaign. ...Read More 16/04/2010 |
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During the Leaders’ debate this evening there was one man giving all the answers and one man only able to ask questions. Gordon Brown responded to questions on crime, immigration, health and education. David Cameron a ...Read More 15/04/2010 |
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Project to change the Conservative Party has failed - Miliband |
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In a speech today Labour’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, welcomed two former Conservative Party activists to the Labour Party and said the project to change the Conservative Party had failed. David Miliband said: “The Tory head and the ...Read More 14/04/2010 |
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On Monday, Labour set out our manifesto. We put forward a programme that will empower the people who use and pay for public services: patients and parents. On Tuesday, the Tories set out their manifesto. They talked a great deal about empowerment ...Read More 14/04/2010 |
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Peter Mandelson, Labour’s Chair of Election Strategy responding to the launch of the Tory manifesto said: "When the Tories say 'we’re all in this together', what they really mean is 'you’re on your own'. "This is not an agenda for empowerment &nd ...Read More 13/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today launched Labour's 2010 General Election Manifesto, together with the Cabinet, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Labour believes our programme for further national ...Read More 12/04/2010 |
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Peter Mandelson, Labour's Chair of Election Strategy, has this evening issued his second "State of the Race" memo to Labour Party members and supporters. ...Read More 12/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party tonight spoke at his formal adoption as the Labour candidate in his constituency, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. Addressing local Party members at the meeting, he s ...Read More 12/04/2010 |
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The Tories might try and talk tough on crime but their actions are weak - Johnson |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, and Alan Johnson MP, Labour's Home Secretary, will today make a campaign visit to highlight the vital role that DNA plays in tackling violent crime and why Labour has been fighting Tory plans to downgrade the DNA databas ...Read More 12/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, tonight spoke about Labour's forthcoming manifesto commitments to encourage responsibility in the banking system. At the live and online event, based on the TED conferences, the first of i ...Read More 12/04/2010 |
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I would first like to start with a plea: whatever you think of politics for the sake of democracy please use your vote. Sunderland is a unique place in many ways; with a modern heritage of industrialisation. Building sites, shipyards, pits, foundries, ...Read More 08/04/2010 |
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Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Schools Secretary responding to David Cameron’s speech today said: "Another glitzy David Cameron launch can't hide the fact that this is yet another spending commitment from the Tories with the flakiest of funding solutions. "Last ...Read More 08/04/2010 |
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The Tories Economic Plan has the strength of a house of cards |
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At Labour's first press conference of the general election campaign, Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and Peter Mandelson issued a stark warning to voters that the Tories' economic plan has the strength of a house of cards which would risk the recovery. They will detail how the key plank of ...Read More 08/04/2010 |
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Direct and down the phone line: Labour's top team takes message to voters |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, and Sarah Brown, were joined by Cabinet colleagues today to personally canvass voters, up and down the country, by phone from Labour’s head office in London, as part of a mass canvass with thousands of supporters on the ...Read More 08/04/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, said today in a speech on new politics at Centre Point: It is time to see an end to the old politics and to change our politics for good. In the weeks to come, I will travel the country, speaking with ...Read More 07/04/2010 |
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Peter Mandelson, Labour's Business Secretary, has given a speech to Progress and the Foreign Press Association: My argument today is that the challenges we face in 2010 make a far stronger case for the election of a Labour Government than at any time in the past thirty ye ...Read More 07/04/2010 |
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Tory election headlines are being achieved at the cost of economic credibility - Alexander |
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Douglas Alexander MP, Labour’s General Election Coordinator, in a briefing to Labour Party campaign staff and volunteers today said if David Cameron thinks the “message matters more than the money” – he’s wrong. He said: “This election ...Read More 06/04/2010 |
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Labour is today joining forces with families across England in a campaign to Save Our Sure Start children's centres from David Cameron's plans to cut their funding and prevent access to these valuable services for families on middle and modest incomes. & ...Read More 20/03/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, commenting on the news that Michael Foot has passed away, said: "Michael Foot was a man of deep principle and passionate idealism and one of the most eloquent speakers Britain has ever hea ...Read More 06/03/2010 |
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For the last ten years the Conservatives have been concealing the truth - Straw |
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Jack Straw MP, Labour's Justice Secretary, said: "Lord Ashcroft was initially turned down for a peerage. He was only granted his peerage on the basis that he would return to live in the UK, become fully resident, and that he would pay tax in the UK on ...Read More 01/03/2010 |
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Labour’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has set out the how the Government will step up the fight against crime and anti-social behaviour. Labour has taken tough action to bring down crime by over a third since 1997 but the Prime Minister said that ther ...Read More 01/03/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today addressed the Welsh Labour Conference. Gordon Brown said: Thank you friends – and let me say today that our thoughts an ...Read More 27/02.2010 |
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Today's Conservatism looks more and more like a toxic cocktail of Tory traditions - David Miliband |
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David Miliband MP, Labour's Foreign Secretary, today continued the themes of Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party's Spring Event in Warwick last weekend and exposed the lack of vision and change at the heart of the Tory Party. In a speech to ...Read More 26/02/2010 |
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Tories plans will block investment and wreck the recovery - Healey |
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John Healey MP, Labour’s Housing and Planning Minister responding to the Tories' planning green paper released today, said: "David Cameron can dress it up in whatever post-bureaucratic rhetoric he chooses. But when it comes to the crunch, t ...Read More 23/02/2010 |
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Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today addressed the Labour Party's Spring Campaign Event. Gordon Brown said: You know somebo ...Read More 22/02/2010 |
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Gordon Brown's speech to the Progressive Governance Conference |
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Speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party at the Progressive Governance Conference Over the last decade Policy Network has performed a momentous role in the development of progressive thinking, bringing us together as a global progressive family. ...Read More 19/02/2010 |
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Thousands of people who back the ban on fox hunting today joined Hilary Benn MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, in signing an open letter to David Cameron calling on him to drop his pledge to abolish the ban and to make clear if he also plans to repeal the ban on stag hunting and ha ...Read More 18/02/2010 |
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People want to see the substance of David Cameron's policies, not more glossy posters - Miliband |
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Ed Miliband MP, Labour’s Environment Secretary and Manifesto co-ordinator responding to the Tories' poster launch today said: "People want to see the substance of David Cameron's policies, not more glossy posters. “As ...Read More 15/02/2010 |
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Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Health Secretary and Douglas Alexander MP, Labour's General Election co-ordinator have today launched voteNHS.com to outline Labour’s health campaign. The ...Read More 11/02/2010 |
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A new report shows that George Osborne's plans are badly flawed and would mean taking child tax credits away from couples each earning over £31,000 per year A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown that families on modest and mid ...Read More 06/02/2010 |
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A new report shows how the Conservatives' plans for immediate cuts could damage the economic recovery, as well as hitting families hard. Warnings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the National Institute for Social Research (NIESR) call into question To ...Read More 03/02/2010 |
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Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Annie Lennox, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal are among the big names launching a new poverty campaign today, the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Make Poverty History speech in Trafalgar Square. In a campaign video released today, the ...Read More 03/02/2010 |
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Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury responding to George Osborne's speech today said:“Today George Osborne made credibility the test and then failed it. The only thing he succeeded in doing was to talk Britain down.“In ...Read More 02/02/2010 |
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Instead of bobbing around like a cork in water David Cameron should level with the British people - Mandelson After the disarray in the Conservatives' position over the last few days, Labour’s Business Secretary Peter Mandelson will today challenge David Cameron to ...Read More 02/02/2010 |
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New figures show Britain has come out of recession – credit to the families and businesses who have worked hard through the downturn. It was right for Labour to support families and the economy – sustaining jobs by giving businesses time to pay tax; introducing a scrappage sch ...Read More 26/01/2010 |
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New figures from the Treasury today reveal that only 6% of married couples would benefit from the Tories' new married couples plan. Far from his commitment to ‘recognise all marriages', 94% of married couples would get nothing. In fact, in o ...Read More 25/01/2010 |
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Labour's Work and Pensions Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has welcomed news that unemployment has fallen - with a 7,600 drop in youth unemployment. While the jobs market is still tough, Labour’s £5bn investment in expanding education and trainin ...Read More 20/01/2010 |
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Labour’s Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced new measures to tackle irresponsible drinking.Measures announced today will include banning irresponsible promotions such as “all you can drink” offers, ensuring free tap water is available for cus ...Read More 19/01/2010 |
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International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, has announced that the Labour Government will treble its funding for humanitarian relief in response to the Haiti earthquake. Based on assessments on the scale of the disaster, aid will rise from ...Read More 19/01/2010 |
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Let me say first, that today the concerns of the people of Haiti are now a cause for the whole earth, their tragedy a summons to action for every continent. And I want to thank the British people; the generosity of their spirit, our willingness to give ...Read More 17/01/2010 |
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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. Earlier this week, it was struck by an earthquake about 10 miles south-west of the capital Port-Au-Prince and is facing a major humanitarian crisis. Initial estimates are that some six million people live in ...Read More 16/01/2010 |
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Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to David Cameron's speech to Conservative Party conference: "This was an emotive but deceptive speech. It concealed the judgement calls he has consistently got wrong and the real threat of what he would do. ...Read More 16/01/2010 |
