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David Cameron has pledged to support children's hospices in England. Good. And I say that without my usual cynicism.
Yesterday we learned there wil be 3 debates between 3 party leaders. What people want to see most is the debate between the Prime Minister and the man who could succeed him. The rules to qualify for the debate could be easy – the two top polling parties in the six months prior to the General Election.
A CAMPAIGN to get Dartford a directly elected council leader or mayor is set to be launched in the New Year.
Alex Salmond’s Government will have to go on “a diet”, with Holyrood having to endure a sharp spending squeeze in the years ahead, the Scottish Secretary has warned.
The prospect of a British football team appearing at the London Olympics in 2012 appears to have receded after David Cameron said a government led by him would not support the idea.
Most readers will by now know that Jack Straw issued a certificate yesterday under section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 overriding a decision made by the Information Commissioner under Part 4 of that Act that the 1997 minutes of the Cabinet Ministerial Committee on Devolution to Scotland and Wales and the English Regions should be released in response to an information request under the 2000 Act.
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Three union flags - rather than the current one - are to be flown above Parliament in future.
English cities have been described as "naughty" after using the London 2012 Olympics to pre-book holding camps for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games in 2014.
As one of Britain's top historians, Dominic Sandbrook has impeccable credentials, including a first-class history degree from Oxford and a prize-winning PhD from Cambridge. And as the author of two hugely acclaimed bestsellers on Britain, he ought to know as much as anybody about the society we live in. But when the Mail asked him to sit the official test for those wanting to become British citizens, the results weren't what he expected...
In the Scotsman yesterday David Cameron ruled out granting a referendum on Scottish independence, a decision which has been met with opposition from both Seperatists and Unionists. Fighting from a Unionist perspective, Tory Outcast wrote on his blog;
I’ve now enquired of the Equality and Human Rights Commission about the best course of action to take regarding what I consider to be the racially discriminatory aspects of the national-identity and ethnic-group questions in the 2011 Census for England and Wales (see last post). This was following a reply from the ONS to my previous email to them.
Earlier this week David McLetchie MSP was put in charge of the Conservative Party's campaign to elect eleven Scottish MPs. In reality four or five victories would delight the Tory leadership but publicly the party is hoping for more
DAVID Cameron yesterday backed boosting the powers of the Scottish Parliament, saying he would set out to enact reforms within a year of becoming prime minister.
A transcript of George Monbiot's speech to the Campaign for an English Parliament's Future of England debate.
The passports for all the drivers showed their nationality as “British” except for one Scottish driver who was “Scottish”.
Commenting on the publication of the UK Government’s recommendation of no change in response to House of Lords Select Committee report on the Barnett formula – which had called for the scrapping of the funding mechanism - SNP Treasury spokesperson Stewart Hosie MP said that with the Pre-Budget Report showing Scotland’s oil will pump £50 billion into the UK Treasury over the next six years the only acceptable alternative was full fiscal autonomy for Scotland - allowing the country to raise all the money it spends.
2012 items | 371 visits
Witanagemot Club links
Updated about 1 hour ago
Created on 2008-09-07
Category: Government & Politics
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