Cameron says tough agenda needs majority win

Categories: U.K.| Nov 22, 2009

Cameron says tough agenda needs majority win LONDON (Reuters) - Opposition leader David Cameron said on Sunday his Conservative Party needs a clear majority in the next general election to push through painful measures to get the recession-hit economy back on track. Cameron was speaking after the latest ...Read More

Boost for Brown as new poll puts Labour just six points behind Tories

Categories: U.K.| Nov 22, 2009

Boost for Brown as new poll puts Labour just six points behind Tories Gordon Brown was boosted today by a poll suggesting the Tories' lead has been slashed. An Ipsos Mori survey has put David Cameron's party on 37 per cent - just six points ahead of Labour. The gap is the narrowest between the ...Read More

David Cameron planning post-election emergency budget

Categories: U.K.| Nov 22, 2009

David Cameron planning post-election emergency budget Mr Cameron's budget would seek to get the economy moving Conservative leader David Cameron has told the BBC he plans to hold an emergency budget within 50 days if his party wins the next general election. Mr Cameron told BBC One's ...Read More

New poll says Labour has closed the gap on Tories

Categories: U.K.| Nov 21, 2009

The Prime Minister's attempts to stage a fightback in the run-up to the general election were boosted last night after a new opinion poll suggested that Labour had closed the gap on the Conservatives to just six percentage points. In the ...Read More

Tories Would Pull British Troops From Germany

Categories: U.K.| Nov 21, 2009

Tories Would Pull British Troops From Germany British troops could be withdrawn from Germany for good under Conservative plans to "recast" defence policy if they win the next General Election. Tories want troops to focus on operations outside Europe, like the Afghan conflict The shadow defence secretary said ...Read More

Sikh campaigner for BNP set to become party's first non-white member

Categories: U.K.| Nov 20, 2009

A Sikh man who has campaigned for the BNP in support of its anti-Islam stance has been put forward to be the party's first non-white member. Rajinder Singh, who is in his late 70s, has twice lent support to Nick Griffin ...Read More

Iraq MPs to reconsider vote law on Saturday

Categories: World| Nov 19, 2009

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi parliament will onSaturday attempt to finally pass an electoral law jeopardised by Vice PresidentTarek al-Hashemi's demand that it be changed before a general election can goahead. Iraq's presidential council, composed of President JalalTalabani, a Kurd, and two vice ...Read More

Sats tests 'may be scrapped', hints Ed Balls

Categories: U.K.| Nov 19, 2009

Sats tests 'may be scrapped', hints Ed Balls Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, said he was “not closing the door” to the abolition of exams following a major review. The move will be seen as an attempt to appease classroom unions which have threatened to boycott Sats in English ...Read More

Gordon Brown: The country has a stark choice to make

Categories: U.K.| Nov 19, 2009

Gordon Brown last night warned there was now a stark choice facing the country as he set out battle lines for the general election. In an exclusive article for the Mirror he said the Tories tried to claim yesterday's Queen's Speech ...Read More

MPs' expenses: fraud charges for six MPs and lords

Categories: U.K.| Nov 19, 2009

MPs' expenses: fraud charges for six MPs and lords Detectives will pass files imminently on the Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead to the Crown Prosecution Service, Westminster sources have said. Keir Starmer, the Director of ...Read More