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Introducing David Cameron's 'Privilege Spread'

2012-10-30T10:47:50Z

If you heard about David Cameron’s dream to spread privilege, and you heard everyone else wonder what on Earth he meant, then luxury department stor...

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Stephen Twigg: The Government's Narrow and Old Fashioned Approach to Education is Letting Down Young People

2012-10-18T09:00:15Z

This government is letting down our young people by failing to build a modern education system fit for the modern world.

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David Clark: Six Reasons Why Miliband Has the Edge Over Cameron

2012-10-18T06:21:21Z

Conservative strategists who assumed that the leadership question would hand them a decisive advantage at the next elections will be hoping this is a flash in the pan. Here are six reasons why they are likely to be disappointed and why Miliband now has the edge over Cameron.

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Gary Kent: Foreign Policy on the Fringe of the Conferences

2012-10-17T13:40:42Z

Leon Trotsky, not someone I usually quote, once said that people may not be interested in politics but politics is often interested in them. British people may be wary of foreign interventions but foreign crises can profoundly affect domestic politics. The suffering that we see every day in Syria won't go away and will have to be addressed, sooner rather than later.

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Rachael Toon: Labour v Conservative: My Party Conference Comparison 2012

2012-10-11T20:41:50Z

Labour are using opposition to their advantage, and members are responding to the rallying cries of those in charge. The Conservatives are sticking things out. Government is not proving easy but they seem to be taking people along with them - especially their young members, who could be the campaigning difference in 2015 between a Labour victory and a Labour defeat.

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Liam Thompson: Game of Thrones

2012-10-12T07:16:37Z

The Conservative Party Conference this week, as with the other two party conferences, was notable for a supreme lack of passion or insight. It seems that, faced with a world order in flux and a rapidly unravelling economic model, our political leaders really just don't know what to do. I for one would prefer it if they just told us this.

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Ed McRandal: To Be the 'Aspiration Nation' Conservatives Must Focus on Those at the Bottom Who Want to Get on But Can't

2012-10-11T12:52:53Z

In his conference speech, David Cameron fired the starting gun in the race to win over the aspirational, striving classes. To be the 'aspiration nation' and win a majority at the next election the Conservatives must ensure that they focus this message on those that want to get on, but can't.

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Neil Prothero: Rhetoric Over Reality

2012-10-12T05:34:12Z

Polls continue to show that voters prefer Mr Cameron as prime minister to Mr Miliband, but that they prefer Labour over the Conservatives. That might well change before the next election in 2015, but there is little to suggest that Mr Cameron's grand vision will be sufficient to persuade more voters to back his party.

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Joe O'Donnell: Owner-employees - Worse News Than Beecroft

2012-10-11T10:04:00Z

It would be sad to see hundreds of years of employment law progress being swapped for £2,000 worth of shares which can be bought back on dismissal 'at a reasonable price'.

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Simon Chouffot: Eleven Countries Back Financial Transaction Tax - UK Still Opposes

2012-10-11T09:44:39Z

The UK government should be asking itself whether it is right to continue protecting the City's gilded elite, whilst putting itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

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David Laurie: Incentivising Share Ownership and the John Lewis Economy

2012-10-10T12:09:41Z

Firms where employees own a chunk of the company simply perform better.

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Tom Smith: 'Borismania' Reveals Tory Doubts - But Is Boris Really a Credible Future PM?

2012-10-10T12:40:52Z

Unlike Cameron - unlike any other Conservative in the last 15 years - the Mayor of London is a winner. To get elected once in a Labour-leaning city is no mean feat. To do so twice is a very impressive achievement indeed (as is not totally cocking the job up in between).

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Philip White: A Better Boris: How the Mayor of London Proved His 10 Downing Street Potential Through Speechcraft at the Conservative Party Conference

2012-10-10T15:41:49Z

Despite Cameron exceeding expectations at the podium, he was upstaged by a man who might one day take his place (though of course, he won't overtly admit this): Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

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Emily Stacey: David Cameron and His 'Aspiration Nation' Take Centre Stage

2012-10-10T09:48:20Z

Articulate and confidently executed, Cameron's speech today proved that he is the Prime Minister, not Boris. There is certainly a place for Mr Johnson in the Conservative Party; however, the top job seems firmly in the hands of Cameron at present.

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WATCH: Boris Johnson And David Cameron, 'Gangnam Style'

2012-10-10T14:58:30Z

Anything Labour can do, the Tories can do... also. Boris Johnson told the Tory Party conference that he and David Cameron had "danced Gangnam Style". ...

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Bob Morgan: Chris Grayling, Self-defence and Politics

2012-10-10T07:39:41Z

The current law provides lots of protection for a householder acting honestly in self-defence and Chris Grayling's proposals will add nothing new and will only add to the confusion.

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Sam Fraser: Tough on Children; Tough on the Causes of Children

2012-10-08T16:33:12Z

Jeremy Hunt's 12 week limit would herald an inevitable rise in teen motherhood, exacerbated, in all likelihood, by patchy delivery of sex education in Michael Gove's new free schools and academies.

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Elliott Adair: A Big Return to Old Conservative Values

2012-10-08T13:46:56Z

This conference has surely been the conference of old Conservative values and a message to the country: we are still Conservative and we are still ready to fight!

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LOOK: The Freewheelin' David Cameron - PM Recreates Classic Bob Dylan Album Cover

2012-10-10T05:21:28Z

Ladies and gentlemen, we can only apologise in advance. Because what you're about to see is... The Freewheelin' David Cameron:

Will our Pri...

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WATCH: Boris Johnson Makes Spectacular Entrance At Tory Party Conference

2012-10-09T10:37:34Z

Wow, we didn't see this coming.

(Footage by David Schneider and Handface).

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Gove's GCSE Replacement Plan Unpopular WIth Teachers

2012-10-09T11:31:29Z

Less than one in four teachers are in favour of the government's plans to scrap GCSEs and replace them with a new English Baccalaureate Certificate, a...

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Emily Stacey: Eau de Boris Infuses the Air at the Conservative Party Conference

2012-10-09T08:43:35Z

Once again stealing the limelight on centre stage, Boris Johnson has lifted the spirit of the Tory party conference and has unsurprisingly hit the headlines whilst doing so. Does he secretly have ambitions of one day leading the Conservatives? Let's see where we are in 2016.

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Separated At Birth?

2012-10-09T08:44:03Z

If Michael Gove's words failed to captivate his audience at the Conservative Party Conference, then the new look he debuted on Tuesday certainly did.
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Jonathan Portes: What Explains Poor Growth in the UK? The IMF Thinks it's Fiscal Policy

2012-10-09T08:16:41Z

Everyone agrees growth since 2010 in the UK has been very disappointing. But there has been much debate about why - was it cutting the deficit too quickly, was it the spike in inflation resulting from commodity price rises, was it the impact on confidence from the eurozone?

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Ramesh Patel: Exposed! Osbornomics Via Childish Proverbs, Idioms, Soundbites, Tricks and Utter Bollocks!

2012-10-07T08:46:27Z

Its quite hilarious how George Osborne passes off proverbs and idioms as economic fact. What is more surprising is his use of childish tricks to mislead the country. Now either George Osborne really thinks idioms and proverbs is the basis of economic theory and fact or he is pulling a fast one to justify policies. Common sense tells us all it's the latter.

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