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Labour big beasts fall but Balls and Blears battle on

07.05.10
Voters finally have their revenge for the expenses scandal as Jacqui Smith and a string of other Labour MPs with exorbitant claims are ousted... more

String of lost seats shatters Nick Clegg’s dream of a dramatic election win

07.05.10
Nick Clegg tells of his 'great regret' after the party failed to make dramatic election wins... more

Police take no action against dog mess-row minister

18.12.09
Government's most senior Commons lawyer faced embarrassment today after it emerged that police investigated a row over her puppy fouling a railway station platform... more

Rhys gangster has jail term doubled

28.10.09
Gangster who armed the killer of Rhys Jones had his sentence almost doubled by the Court of Appeal... more

Lady Scotland fights for survival as Brown plots mini-reshuffle

21.09.09
Attorney General Baroness Scotland is battling to save her job as it emerged that Gordon Brown is preparing to carry out a mini-reshuffle... more

Obama's Middle East peace plan runs into trouble

15.06.09
The good news is that the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has said that he will accept an independent Palestinian state - the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's new effort to make peace in the Middle East. The bad news is that he has hedged this concession with insuperable preconditions... more

Jacqui Smith campaign is a gimmick says women's charity

09.03.09
Jacqui Smith was embarrassed by a campaigner who accused her of using "gimmicks" and "spin" as she launched the Government's domestic violence campaign... more

Ministers are urged to shame employers into closing gender pay gap

06.01.09
Companies face being shamed into closing the pay gap between men and women... more

Firms could be outed over low pay for women

06.01.09
Companies face being shamed into closing the pay gap between men and women... more

When a rape case should not go to court, by Helen Mirren

01.09.08
The 63-year-old, who won an Oscar last year for playing the Queen, said date-rape was a 'tricky area' and something men and women had to work out between themselves.... more

Mirren under fire for date rape views

01.09.08
Dame Helen Mirren is under fire after saying date rapists should not always be prosecuted... more

Cameron: Insane to move northerners to London

13.08.08
David Cameron lashed out at "insane" calls by his favourite think tank for a million northerners to migrate to London... more


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