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Nick Clegg unveils £450 million regional jobs boost

12.04.11
Nick Clegg joins former Cabinet minister Lord Heseltine to unveil plans to invest £450 million in businesses across England aimed at creating or safeguarding 100,000 jobs ... more

Labour fuels MPs’ rebellion over Royal Mail privatisation

12.01.11
Labour joins forces with dissident Coalition MPs to trigger the second Commons rebellion this week against flagship legislation... more

Big guns back Ed Miliband’s Labour policy review

22.11.10
Labour big guns rally behind Ed Miliband as he meets backbenchers in an attempt to rebuild confidence in his leadership... more

Green light for the £4.5bn rebuilding of Brent Cross

29.10.10
£4.5billion redevelopment of Brent Cross shopping centre has been given the go-ahead after the lifting of a Labour-imposed block... more

Council tax freeze in London

24.03.10
Londoners are to enjoy a freeze in average council tax - the first time it has not gone up in 16 years... more

Minister stalls £4.5bn Brent Cross project days after Mayor says yes

18.03.10
Major £4.5 billion London development has been thrown into doubt days after Mayor Boris Johnson approved the scheme... more

No Mr Denham, our lives are still blighted by racism

15.01.10
Communities Secretary John Denham’s claim that class, not race, is now our biggest social barrier is a cynical appeal to white voters... more

Cabinet minister John Denham: We must look beyond race

14.01.10
Some ethnic minority groups no longer face automatic disadvantage in Britain, with social class now a key factor in holding people back, Cabinet minister said... more

A better approach to airport security

14.01.10
The ordeal of getting through airport security could be less onerous in the future once security officials direct their attention to people showing suspect behaviour rather than at all passengers indiscriminately... more

Council and police salaries go public to halt pay boom

18.12.09
Crackdown on soaring pay rises and golden goodbyes to council chiefs was launched by the Government... more

Minister vetoes Foster 'penny whistle' tower backed by the Mayor

11.12.09
Lord Foster's plans for the 'penny whistle' tower in west London have been rejected by ministers... more

Middle class ‘do not grasp the problems of immigration’

01.12.09
Middle-class people are failing to understand the impact of migration on poorer workers because they are 'insulated' from competition for jobs and services, a government minister warns... more

War on Right-wing racism launched in ‘vulnerable’ areas

14.10.09
Ministers launch £12 million scheme to combat the spread of Right-wing extremism amid fears that the recession could create rising social tensions... more

Minister kills off Ugly Sisters in blow to Boris

09.10.09
£1billion scheme to build three towers next to the London Eye was today banned by the Government... more

Public sector staff warned 'gold-plated pensions are over'

26.08.09
Millions of public sector workers face having their pensions cut or being forced to increase their contributions... more

Minister warns equality drive will cost votes

01.07.09
Cabinet minister John Denham warns that Harriet Harman's equalities campaign risks alienating middle-class voters... more

Grants cut for 100,000 students

29.10.08
Up to 100,000 students will pay more for university after ministers slashed grants for middle-class families just weeks after they were introduced... more

Heathrow: MPs plot revolt against third runway

28.10.08
Plans for a third runway at Heathrow were threatened by a Cabinet revolt... more

Education

08.10.08
The struggle to turn around some failing institutions has seen community leaders and politicians willing to embrace radical new teaching and funding methods. ... more

Denham hits at Oxford chief

02.10.08
The war of words over Oxbridge admissions has escalated after the Universities Secretary accused Oxford's chancellor of having "outmoded" views... more

Universities pledge to interview state pupils

24.09.08
A group of leading universities will guarantee interviews to gifted working-class teenagers amid mounting government pressure to take more students from state schools... more

Minister: Oxford is not trying to widen access

19.09.08
The war of words between Britain's elite universities and the Government escalated as Cabinet minister John Denham launched an astonishing attack on Oxford... more

Minister tells Oxbridge: Do more to help poor students

11.09.08
Universities Secretary John Denham has sparked a new social class row with Oxbridge, demanding that "highly-selective" colleges do more to help poor students... more

University isn't always the way: just ask Sir Alan

06.06.08
More students are dropping out of university than ever before - and one writer whose son did so says the education system must stop betraying them... more

Minister: We must win in South or be doomed

08.05.08
Labour must win back support in London and the South or be doomed to political failure in future, according to a Cabinet minister... more

Balls is firing blanks in the class war over our schools

09.04.08
The Labour tribe has many prejudices against the privileged but not the one that would help Britain most... more

Capital's universities hit by below-average increase in grants

06.03.08
Universities in the capital are getting below-average increases in grants from the taxpayer this year... more


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