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Your fashion starter for ten: specialist pub quizzes

01.02.10
The capital’s whizz-kids are beating the recession blues by setting up their own specialist pub quizzes. Liz Hoggard reports... more

90 per cent rise in women claiming dole as recession takes toll in London suburbs

18.01.10
Women in London have been hardest hit by the recession with a 90 per cent increase in the number claiming the dole since the credit crisis hit, the Standard has found... more

David Cameron’s shadow cabinet team to repay £24,782 in expenses

18.12.09
David Cameron’s shadow cabinet team agrees to repay a total of £24,782 in over-claimed expenses, as Labour minister faces expenses probe... more

Youth unemployment hits record high

16.12.09
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The Truss affair - and lessons for the Tories

18.11.09
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 associations... more

Victims of the white collar recession as professionals sign on the dole

13.11.09
Unemployment is spiralling among white collar workers in the capital as the new number of professionals signing on to the dole leaps... more

300,000 homes get £20,000 in welfare benefits

12.11.09
More than 300,000 families receive welfare benefits of more than £20,000 a year, latest figures reveal... more

40% of London families on housing benefit

02.11.09
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MPs disclose contents of expenses letters

14.10.09
These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004-5 and 2008-9... more

Party is at that magical Blairy place where it applauds anything

08.10.09
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 day... more

Conservative conference diary

06.10.09
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David Cameron: We won’t make women retire at 66

06.10.09
Tory party conference: David Cameron forced to clarify plans to the retirement age to 66, amid claims that millions of women could have to work for three years longer... more

We're dying later; we should work longer

06.10.09
The only question about the plan by the shadow chancellor George Osborne to raise the pensions age is: what took him so long?... more

The week ahead at the Conservative conference

05.10.09
Today: Boris Johnson is guaranteed to boost morale as he kicks the week off. William Hague is drafted in to soothe fury about the Commons expenses scandal... more

Londoners fail to name Conservative cabinet

02.10.09
They are on course to run the country as the next Conservative government. Yet the men and women who form the Tory shadow cabinet are almost unrecognisable to many Londoners. ... more

From school to dole: young swell ranks of unemployed

16.09.09
Youth unemployment crisis deepened as the jobless rate among under 25s looking for work hit one in five... more

Tories attack 'vicious cycle' of unemployment

27.08.09
Tories step up their attack on the 'failure' of Labour's welfare state, revealing that worklessness has cost more than £340 billion in benefits since 1997... more

This Saga spells more Labour woe

14.05.09
The Government is getting itself into a right mess (again) with some ill-thought-through legislation that plays straight into Tory hands. "Save Our Saga" is the latest rallying cry among traditional Conservative supporters of, ahem, a certain age ... more

Tories 'need more top women'

28.04.09
Pressure to appoint more women to the Conservative Party's top team was growing today... more

£2.5bn to cut dole queues as unemployment hits new high

22.04.09
Hundreds of thousands of young people will not be abandoned as a “lost generation” without jobs, Alistair Darling vowed... more

Easter egg hunt at skills centre ‘insults jobless’

06.04.09
Ministers faced ridicule after it emerged that Jobcentre bosses in London have organised a jobseekers’ Easter egg hunt... more

Cameron attacks 'phoney' Brown's claims of recovery from recession

18.03.09
David Cameron has accused Gordon Brown of being a "complete phoney" as the pair clashed over the jobless figures and state of the economy... more

MPs rebel over making single parents work

17.03.09
Ministers scrambled to avoid defeat on the Government’s flagship welfare bill after the Tories and Labour rebels opposed moves to force single parents to look for work... more

Minister in new 'green shoots' gaffe

21.01.09
Gordon Brown faced fresh accusations of "complacency" over the dire state of the economy after a minister claimed there was "light at the end of the tunnel" for Britain's jobless... more

Clarke’s back and promptly takes aim at Mandelson

19.01.09
David Cameron has radically reshuffled his shadow Cabinet and brought back Ken Clarke as shadow business secretary... more

Inequality at the Equalities Office as Harman's staff get paid £12,000 more

05.12.08
Harriet Harman has come under fire after it emerged that her department spent £3 out of £4 on administration in its first six months... more

Unease over tax break for married couples

30.09.08
David Cameron is facing unrest among senior MPs over his pledge to give tax breaks to encourage marriage... more

Don’t cry for me Dame Marjorie

05.09.08
A report yesterday claimed the number of women in top jobs had fallen. But Antonia Cox argues not all women want to enter the corporate battlefield... more

Tories plan £2million break on inheritance tax

02.09.08
The Tories were accused of offering "tax cuts for millionaires" as it emerged they plan to allow families to inherit up to £2 million tax-free... more

Above-inflation pay rise for 13 in the Government

11.08.08
Thirteen government members including Harriet Harman will get an inflation-busting pay rise next year, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

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