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Labour declares byelection fightback

Labour moved to recover lost ground yesterday in the Glasgow East byelection when its candidate launched the campaign with a declaration that the "Labour fightback starts right here, right now". Late on Monday night the party...

Democrat Obama rejects charges of flip-flopping

reuters.co.uk     3 hrs ago   47 related          

POWDER SPRINGS, Georgia (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama rejected charges on Tuesday that he has shifted positions on Iraq and other issues as part of a move to the political centre now that he is his...

Former officials on war powers act

reuters.com     5 hrs ago   78 related          

Jul 8 - A panel led by former Secretaries of State say the 1973 War Power Resolution is ineffective and that a new law should force the U.S. president to consult with Congress before going to war. The commission led by former...

Unlikely Serb allies put to the test

bbc.co.uk     9 hrs ago   65 related          

The prime minister will find it hard to keep the coalition on message Back in 2000, no-one could have predicted that those ousted from office in a popular uprising would overcome their Balkan pride to work with the very men...

Jonathan Freedland: Why back David Cameron, a man who claims society is broken but admits he...

An inadvertently amusing headline appeared on the front page of the Times yesterday. "Help yourselves, Cameron tells the fat and the poor," suggesting that the Tory leader had been generously nodding the overweight towards the...

By-election nominations to close

bbc.co.uk     4 hrs ago   20 related          

Nominations will close for the Glasgow East by-election on Wednesday after seven parties kick-started their campaigns for the Westminster seat. Glasgow City Council hopes to publish a full list of candidates by 1700 BST. Labour...

Hunger for victory defines Obama

ft.com     8 hrs ago   25 related          

Recent history says that Barack Obama will have to fight a bitter campaign if he is to scrape a narrow victory for the White House. But a number of independent operatives believe an Obama landslide is a growing possibility

Eliza Manningham-Buller, former MI5 chief, savages 42-day detention plan

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, has dealt a huge blow to Gordon Brown's plans to extend the detention of terrorist suspects to 42 days. Making her first speech as a...

Economist heads funding inquiry

bbc.co.uk     11 hrs ago   7 related          

Gerald Holtham is a visiting professor at the Cardiff Business School An economist will lead an inquiry into how the Welsh Assembly Government receives money from the UK Treasury. Aberdare-born Gerald Holtham will chair a...

Leading article: Mr Cameron road-tests the politics of responsibility

It is a brave politician who utters the words "personal" and "responsibility" in the same sentence, and an even braver one who, without wincing, adds "morality". But David Cameron knew exactly what he was doing in Gallowgate...

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