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There's no secret about Labour and immigration

27.10.09
Myths can be halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on. So it is with the great weekend story that in 2000 Labour ministers had "a deliberate policy" but a concealed one to "open up the UK to mass migration"... more

Young homebuyers face legal action and bankruptcy after off-plan flats plunge in value

07.09.09
Young Londoners facing financial hardship because they can no longer afford homes they agreed to buy off-plan during the boom... more

New rights over eviction for tenants of bad landlords

06.08.09
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Crime boss keeps £3million in courts fiasco

06.08.09
Organised crime boss has failed to pay a penny of the £3.26million he was ordered to hand over seven years ago, the Evening Standard reveals... more

Labour launches attack on benefit cheats to woo working families

31.07.09
Crackdown on cheats and scroungers was launched as Labour tried to revive its support among beleaguered working families... more

London loses out in £925m plan to kickstart house building

28.07.09
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London is cut out of £1.5bn housebuilding bonanza

20.07.09
BORIS JOHNSON lashed out at the Government today as it emerged that London faces £200million of housing cuts while the rest of the country benefits from Gordon Brown's building spree.... more

London gets taskforce to secure share of £1.5bn homes plans

17.07.09
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New immigrants occupy just two per cent of social housing

07.07.09
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Don’t spare ‘inefficient’ schools and NHS from spending cuts, says audit watchdog

01.07.09
Frontline NHS and education services are "inefficient" and should not be exempt from spending cuts, Britain's public services watchdog has warned... more

Brown struggles as Tories laugh at his 'zero spending rise'

01.07.09
Gordon Brown's key election claim that spending will keep rising under Labour came under fresh strain tonight after a blistering clash in the Commons with David Cameron... more

Lord Mandelson and George Osborne clash again in Yachtgate II

01.07.09
Lord Mandelson resurrected his feud with shadow chancellor George Osborne today by accusing him of lying... more

MPs attack £1.5bn local homes plan

30.06.09
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Brown sets out manifesto with vision of new rights

29.06.09
Gordon Brown pledged to give parents and patients a raft of new rights to personalised services as he finally outlined his “vision” for Britain’s future... more

Lib-Dems and Tories gain ground as Labour is hit heavily at polls

05.06.09
Labour suffered a fresh blow as the first local election results showed it was sustaining heavy losses across the country ... more

Firms outside London face levy to help fund £16bn Crossrail

19.05.09
Businesses outside the capital could be forced to pay towards Crossrail under plans being pushed by the London Mayor... more

London flu pandemic could kill 94,000

15.04.09
Experts are predicting that a London flu pandemic could kill anything from 7,542 people to 94,270 depending on how many “waves” of infection there are... more

Cheering news on pensions: our experts have some bright ideas

26.03.09
London's £10 billion pensions deficit crisis could be solved by raising the retirement age and forcing workers to pay more each month... more

Anger over massive pensions gulf between local authority bosses and ordinary workers

24.03.09
At least seven London local government bosses are heading for final salary pensions of more than £100,000 a year, the Evening Standard has learned... more

Labour faces local polls defeat

11.03.09
Labour MPs are braced for heavy losses in the summer local elections which would further weaken Gordon Brown's grip on power... more

Green is planning to link Arcadia and Bhs

25.02.09
Retail: RAG trade tycoon Philip Green is to merge his two High Street businesses Bhs and the Arcadia group of companies led by Topshop... more

Elderly Britons given help to leave Zimbabwe

18.02.09
Hundreds of Britons are to be offered government assistance to leave Zimbabwe as conditions there deteriorate... more

Crackdown on councils' 'fat cat' bosses

21.01.09
"Fat-cat" town hall chiefs are facing a crackdown over their huge salaries under plans to keep a lid on council taxes, local government minister John Healey warned... more

'Full speed ahead' for Crossrail despite business levy protests

04.12.08
Boris Johnson said Crossrail is on the fast track to completion despite protests from business chiefs at being forced to pay towards the £16billion project... more

London councils to slash services in cash squeeze

26.11.08
Key council services face the axe because of low levels of government funding... more

Prescott ‘told councils to invest for high interest’

10.10.08
Tory councils are blaming John Prescott for encouraging them to invest in Icelandic banks with high rates of interest... more

London councils suffer from Iceland banking crash

09.10.08
London town halls face raising council taxes and cutting spending in the wake of the Icelandic banking crash... more

No prison for rebel council tax pensioners

02.07.08
Pensioners who refuse to pay council tax are to be spared jail - but will have the debt seized directly from their bank accounts instead... more

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