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European election results by votes and seats
Read more: European election results by votes and seatsWith 63 of 69 seats declared: As Mark Mardell writes: It’s an important result. As a whole it confirms the mood of the British electorate towards the EU. It is also significant in terms of its impact on…
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Britain can’t afford another year of Labour
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[bumped up] The economic debate becomes more fundamental
Read more: [bumped up] The economic debate becomes more fundamentalThis post has been brought forward for those people who asked me today about money, bank credit and economic cycles while I was telling for the EU and local elections. As the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle…
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Speech of the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus in the European Parliament
Read more: Speech of the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus in the European ParliamentAs we approach leaving the EPP, let’s remember someone else who gets it: We must say openly that the present economic system of the EU is a system of a suppressed market, a system of a permanently strengthening…
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Why the Conservatives are right for the European Union
Read more: Why the Conservatives are right for the European UnionThe Tory leader also turned his fire on bureaucratic over-reach in the EU, which he said was driven by “the desire for harmonisation and homogenisation – on tax, on regulation, on so many aspects of public and private…
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Casualty evacuation: Beth in Iraq
Read more: Casualty evacuation: Beth in IraqBeth leading the evacuation of a casualty of the Iraq war (we obtained a number of these press photos just today): Click the photo for a larger image.
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UK ‘needs emergency Budget’ – Telegraph
Read more: UK ‘needs emergency Budget’ – TelegraphThe Policy Exchange has advised the next government that it must be prepared to make radical and immediate cuts to spending plans or face a serious risk of a full-scale sovereign debt crisis. In a new paper, it…
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Gordon Brown: Labour’s dilemma | Editorial | The Guardian
Read more: Gordon Brown: Labour’s dilemma | Editorial | The GuardianEven The Guardian has had enough of Gordon Brown: Political reform can no longer be put aside as an abstract idea, of appeal to dreamers but not to voters who face the harder realities of life. The public…
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FT.com / UK – Labour in chaos as ministers jump ship
Read more: FT.com / UK – Labour in chaos as ministers jump shipWhy we need a general election now: Gordon Brown’s government was in disarray on Tuesday night as Jacqui Smith, home secretary, led a wave of resignations ahead of what is expected to be a dismal performance by Labour…