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Hate the EU? Then I beg you to vote Tory

David Cameron may have backed down on the Lisbon Treaty, but in power the Conservatives will work hard to decrease the power of Brussels, says Janet Daley. Not just undemocratic but positively, deliberately anti-democratic:...

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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush

Barack Obama's reaction to bad news is to play it so cool that Americans yearn for a bit more drama - and some even for his predecessor, writes Toby Harnden in Washington. Photo: GETTY During the election campaign, Barack...

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Brown attacks SNP over Glasgow airport link

Campaigning in Glasgow North East, Gordon Brown described as “inexplicable” the decision by the SNP to scrap the £170 million rail link to the city’s airport Angus Macleod Scottish Political Editor Gordon Brown joined the...

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Contender says yes to power vote

Carwyn Jones has said he is committed to the One Wales agreement Welsh Labour leadership candidate Carwyn Jones has reiterated his commitment to holding a referendum on full law-making powers for Wales. It comes after he hinted...

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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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Obama in 11th-hour health plea

Mr Obama has made healthcare reform a central plank of his domestic agenda US President Barack Obama is due to make an 11th-hour plea in person to lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote on his landmark healthcare reforms. Mr Obama...

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WILLIAM REES-MOGG: The decline and fall of the EU empire

The Lisbon Treaty was finally brought to ratification last week. Just as a visitor to the Coronation Durbar in Delhi in 1911 might have known at a glance that the British Empire in India was on its last legs, so a cursory...

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Parking scheme D-day

A CRUCIAL meeting to sort out the vexed question of parking in and around Hollingworth Lake takes place next Tuesday. However, controversy surrounds the outcome of the poll, which showed 63.6 per cent of residents from...

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Memo to Cameron: no more promises

By tradition doctors were supposed to promise that they would “first do no harm”, although the phrase does not appear in the Hippocratic oath. Last week David Cameron was forced to withdraw his “cast-iron” pledge to hold a...

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Frank Field: The heat is now on Labour to rethink Euro strategy

IF ANYONE on the Labour side thinks the Tories are not serious about winning the next election, then that party’s reaction to the last signature to the Lisbon Treaty being signed should make them think again.

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