...would he concede that Mr Brown has not always looked like a winning PM? "This has been a very difficult time to be in government. Even for governments as brilliant as the Obama administration, 2009 was a...

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...a lordship as a party donor. MPs howled. Hague retorted that she had wangled her husband, Jack Dromey, a safe MP-ship as a boss of the Unite union, a Labour donor. The House went puce. They were supposed to be...

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...public school background. In a nod towards impending constraints on public spending, Mr Jones called for more efficient ways of running public services to avoid cutting jobs. Mr Jones urged voters not to...

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...the charge. He attacks the Tories for changing their position on the deficit. 12.11pm: Cameron says he can talk about the economy. But he wants to know why "the prime minister and the chancellor are at war with...

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...put the economy "at risk". Tory leader David Cameron said Labour had "badly damaged" the UK, while the Lib Dems said there had been a "total failure to make Britain fairer". 'Team of one' Mr Brown opened...

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...donor, and said Tory leader David Cameron had called every major decision on the economy "wrong. " The Mail on Sunday reported an ITV Plc interview with Brown, due to be televised Feb. 14, in which the...

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He attacked the Tories for what they were saying about the economy. It is talking Britain down when David Cameron compares Britain ludicrously in everyone's eyes to Greece, and when George Osborne describes...

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...notes on his lap, insisting Labour must stop attacking Tories on class and privilege. 'I think it's wrong,' he says. 'I also think it's a political mistake. I think it's wrong because you shouldn't condemn...

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...best universities. She said: "This policy is short-sighted at best and shows that the Tories have completely failed to understand the needs and demands of teachers and the teaching sector. We should be looking...

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...the Commons, in stark contrast to David Cameron, who was lightweight." In the 2009 controversy over MP's expenses the Daily Telegraph revealed that Ms Lones had "After claiming expenses for one London flat,...

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...Cameron's draft manifesto was attacked for failing to cost his plans to slash the budget deficit. Photo: Reuters With the publication of their near-150 page dossier dissecting the Conservative tax and spending...

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...wealth, private education and conspicuous affluence." Labour is these days not much of a working-class operation, but Mr. Johnson is impeccably proletarian. His Cockney accent is a good deal more authentic than...

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...announced by the Chancellor. "It is quite ridiculous for them to oppose that rise and then say they will ring-fence NHS funding without saying where the money will come from. They should not be allowed to get...

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...such a strategy would put the recovery at risk. 'David Cameron is wrong when he calls for going further with a faster and far greater reduction,' he said. 'I think that would seriously damage our prospects...

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...the issue in the coming months. However, one senior government source distanced himself from claims that Mr Darling would "punish" the very rich to help kick-start recovery. He suggested that the burden of...

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...Eton'. The jibe - the first time Mr Brown has attacked the Conservative leader's schooling - was the centrepiece of what was widely seen as the Prime Minister's best Commons performance in months. Labour MPs...

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...the SNP for proposing to take control of the North Sea in an energy document published last week. Readers' Comments To post a comment, please login using the form at the top of the page, or click to register.

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Nov 13 2009 by Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail TORY MPs resemble a "bag full of cats" bickering over David Cameron's EU policy, Europe Minister Chris Bryant said last night. He claimed a Conservative government...

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...the Tories). Miliband has surely been unscrupulous and is open to charges that he has subordinated British foreign policy to naked partisanship in attacking David Cameron's European partners. The Latvian...

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...their candidate for the 1992 general election . Relf suggested that those who had chosen Taylor should be 'strung up' because Taylor wanted 'a nation of half breeds'. Taylor failed to win the traditionally...

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