David Cameron

While we rail at MPs, the City gets away with murder | Nick Cohen

Nobody benefits more from our emasculated MPs than tax-avoiding plutocrats and bonus bandits Luck rather than a conspiracy explains why the newspaper that broke the expenses scandal is the property of billionaire recluses, who...

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John Rentoul: Cameron is the new Blair

"What are Cameron's 10 Bills for his first Queen's Speech?" a Cabinet minister asked me recently in disbelieving frustration. "The Swedish Schools Bill, and what else?" This could be a consistent theme of Labour attacks on the...

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Tory Eurosceptics threaten 'all-out war' over Brussels

David Cameron has been given an 18-month deadline by a powerful band of Eurosceptic Tory MPs to renegotiate Britain's relationship with Brussels or face an "all-out war" for a referendum, it emerged yesterday.

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Tories 'risk a new Costa del Crime'

David Cameron's concern over loss of sovereignty has led opponents to accuse him of endangering public safety by questioning the European arrest warrants that fast-track extradition requests The Tories are to consider pulling...

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Having an affair 'not a barrier to being MP' says shadow women's minister

Having an extramarital affair should not stand in the way of someone becoming an MP the Tory's shadow women's minister Baroness Morris of Bolton said as she intervened in the row over the selection of Elizabeth Truss.

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Liam Fox: Why the Conservatives say we must stay on in Afghanistan

It has not been an easy week for British troops in Afghanistan. Two soldiers were killed by improvised explosive devices, which cause more than 80 per cent of our fatalities in Afghanistan. Five more were killed when an Afghan...

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The ministry of silly ministry names

After Lisbon, ministers will have little left to do but tinker with the titles of their departments, says Christopher Booker If David Cameron wants to do something useful when he arrives in Downing Street (while the EU gets on...

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Gordon Brown takes up jogging as part of new daily exercise regime

Gordon Brown has joined other world leaders in taking up running as part of a new exercise regime, with early morning jogs through Westminster. Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor Aides stress Gordon Brown is in good general...

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David Cameron's big tent catches eye of Tony Benn and Claire Short

Jonathan Oliver and Maureen Paton TWO prominent leftwingers, former cabinet ministers Clare Short and Tony Benn, have spoken out in support of David Cameron’s Conservatives. Short, international development secretary for six...

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Katy Guest: Can't sing, really annoying... Jedward are bound to win

For every trash culture format in our post-postmodern, multimedia world, there are at least two ways in which one can choose to view it. One group of over-analytical people, for instance, still insists on seeing Big Brother as...

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