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Eric Pickles RSS feedKelly blasts Labour over expenses law
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Labour rocked after the man tasked with cleaning up MPs’ expenses attacked the Queen’s Speech for ignoring the issue2009-11-19T09:15:29ZThe Truss affair - and lessons for the Tories
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The more we hear about South West Norfolk Conservatives, the more the heart goes out to the poor candidates trying to penetrate the closed world of local Tory associations2009-11-18T08:55:49ZDavid Cameron: Would I sack George Osborne? Yes absolutely if I have to...
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Tory leader David Cameron talks revealingly about colleagues, policy and the faith that guides him2009-11-06T09:09:14ZBrown is accused of blocking TV debate
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Gordon Brown accused of scuppering the first appearance of all three major party leaders on live television2009-10-20T05:41:34ZParty is at that magical Blairy place where it applauds anything
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Here's one we tried earlier. William Hague arrived on the vast empty stage. “Let’s give a warm welcome to the shadow cabinet!” he cried. There followed an awkward moment, in which the shadow cabinet ambled on, looking splendidly ill-assorted, despite the best efforts of the stylists backstage. Eric Pickles had the lumbering walk of an alderman on school sports day2009-10-08T15:17:49ZTory accused of stealing champagne: I was foolish
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<b>Latest:</b> Tory arrested after being accused of stealing a £150 bottle of champagne at the conference admitted behaving 'rather foolishly'2009-10-08T10:15:38ZConservative Party conference diary
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2009-10-07T12:06:26ZBubbly curb day 2: Now David Cameron is seen champagne glass in hand
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David Cameron faces embarrassment after being pictured with a glass of champagne in
his hand at a party on the eve of shadow chancellor George Osborne’s austerity speech.2009-10-06T08:44:51ZDull is good for the Tories - but Boris Johnson is better
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A photograph in the Daily Mail of George Osborne appears next to one of Piers Morgan, inviting readers to spot the likeness2009-10-06T07:20:40ZConservative chairman bans champagne at conference
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Tory chairman Eric Pickles imposes a champagne ban on visitors to the party's annual conference2009-10-05T08:36:41ZTories need their own treaty over Europe
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It isn't as easy as it looks, is it? As the Conservative conference opens in Manchester today, David Cameron and his team have been given an unwelcome taste of what it is like to experience the full blast of pitiless scrutiny that comes with government - or, in their case, the assumption that you will very soon be in office. And, as ever with the Tory Party, it is Europe that has delivered the slap across the face.2009-10-05T08:29:04ZDavid Miliband: Tories turn blind eye to EU ‘Nazi’ friends
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David Miliband accused the Tories of condoning Nazism as he attacked David Cameron’s new European partners2009-10-01T12:55:39ZPlease don’t tell me my hero has feet of clay
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I am in mourning for one of my favourite Sixties pop songs, California Dreamin’, by The Mamas and the Papas2009-09-25T08:03:18ZWhy do so few politicians go to the Proms?
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It is always said that women have to worry about what they wear and men do not. Yet women are making decisions based on aesthetics whereas for men they touch a fundamental sense of identity2009-09-15T07:28:33ZTory battle looms over David Cameron's plan for supporters
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David Cameron is squaring up for a battle with grass roots Tories in a bid to plant supporters in around 30 plum Conservative seats2009-08-03T08:59:50Z‘Plot to rid council estates of poor’
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David Cameron's favourite Tory town hall is being accused of planning a "social cleansing" programme of demolishing council estates2009-07-09T10:26:14ZHolidaying MPs afraid to admit they’re taking exotic breaks
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MPs are refusing to own up to holidays outside Europe this summer in the wake of public fury over their expenses2009-07-08T08:10:34ZCommons drinks party ends in fighting and CS gas arrest
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A company director was being questioned by police after officers used CS spray to break up a fight in the Commons only yards from where MPs were holding a debate2009-03-31T09:09:01ZExploit No 10, Blears tells candidates
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Labour faced a new sleaze row after a Cabinet minister urged election candidates to use Downing Street to promote themselves2009-02-03T16:20:01ZExploit No 10, Blears tells candidates
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Labour faced a new sleaze row after a Cabinet minister urged election candidates to use Downing Street to promote themselves2009-02-03T16:00:51ZSleaze row peer claims £400,000 just in expenses
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One of the peers at the centre of corruption allegations has claimed nearly £400,000 of taxpayers' money in expenses, the Standard can reveal2009-01-27T14:50:26ZApologies, but we’re not in wrong say sleaze row peers
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Two of the Labour peers at the centre of sleaze allegations have apologised for potentially bringing Parliament into disrepute — but denied claims against them2009-01-26T16:44:43ZSleaze claims against Labour peers must be probed, says Brown
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Sleaze allegations against four Labour peers are “very serious” and need to be investigated, Gordon Brown said2009-01-26T10:30:13ZClarke’s back and promptly takes aim at Mandelson
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David Cameron has radically reshuffled his shadow Cabinet and brought back Ken Clarke as shadow business secretary2009-01-19T09:26:29ZTories plan to axe costly council chiefs
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Dozens of town hall chiefs on six-figure salaries could lose their jobs under Tory plans to shake up local government2008-12-30T09:46:08ZPrescott ‘told councils to invest for high interest’
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Tory councils are blaming John Prescott for encouraging them to invest in Icelandic banks with high rates of interest2008-10-10T08:23:34ZHealth and safety says gravestones have to go
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London councils were accused of "municipal vandalism" after it emerged they are spending millions to uproot gravestones seen as a threat to public health and safety2008-09-12T07:38:53ZTories to set out how they will run the country at party rally
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David Cameron will seek to propel the Tories towards government at his party's autumn rally by openly talking about how they would run Britain2008-08-11T08:40:01ZPutney MP is tipped for key role in Tory cabinet
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Two high-flying Tory women MPs are expected to be drafted into the shadow cabinet as David Cameron bids to build on his "feminist" credentials and sharpens up his team to face Gordon Brown2008-07-14T09:18:30ZPublic service workers' strike signals summer of discontent for Labour
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Hundreds of thousands of council workers are set to strike in what threatens to be a summer of discontent2008-06-23T16:01:05Z