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? Owen Paterson,kate spade bags (http://www.cnnhkids.com/), the Northern Ireland secretary, has become the first cabinet minister to say he opposes gay marriage. As PoliticsHome reports, he sent a letter to a constituent saying: "Having considered this matter carefully, I am afraid I have come to the decision not to support gay marriage."? Nick Clegg has said that, even though legislation has not been passed changing the laws of succession, a first-born girl born to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would become Queen. During questions in the Commons, he said the new rules were already in place.If the birds and bees were to deliver that blessing to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and indeed the nation, then that little girl would be covered by the provisions of these changes of the rules of succession because they operate from the time of the declaration of the Commonwealth summit last October.
But it's always under threat, from the well meaning as well as the malign,marc jacobs outlet (http://www.ytcgzx.net/), and it has constantly to be defended from both.David Cameron on cutting welfare benefits: Politics live blog8.50am: Did someone announce the start of the 2015 general election campaign and I just not notice? Last week Michael Gove appeared to confirm reports that he wants to scrap GCSEs and replace them with a new version of O-levels and CSEs and, when the Lib Dems popped up to say "over our dead bodies" (of which there may be quite a few come 2015,ytcgzx (http://www.ytcgzx.net/), but that's another story), Tories briefed the papers to say that that did not matter much because this could be an idea for the 2015 manifesto. And today David Cameron is at it too.
10.51am: We learnt overnight that George Osborne is going to increase stamp duty on homes worth more than ￡2m. Here's a stamp duty reading list.? Polly Curtis at Reality Check says raising stamp duty to 7% for homes worth more than ￡2m would only raise an extra ￡56.6m.House sales fluctuate through the year but if you averaged what we know for those months already that would mean around 1422 houses worth more than ￡2m a year were sold at the cost of at the very least ￡2.84bn. I've good reason to believe that this figure is a fairly good estimate. Under the current system, if all those people pay stamp duty, it would raise ￡142.2m. At 7% it would raise ￡198.8m – an additional ￡56.6m. These are residential sales only – it's not clear whether Osborne's tax would apply to commercial properties too.
He wants to hear what the committee has to say about this.Harper says distinguished people would be capable of being elected under the STV system.6.52pm: Lord Richard is asking a question now.Q: Why is the government proposing a different disqualification mechanism for appointed members and elected members?Harper says there may be a case for saying different rules should apply to appointed peers who only attend part time. But he will write to the committee about this.6.55pm: Labour's Ann Coffey asks if the government will allow more time for legislation to be scrutinised.Harper says he hopes so. Other reforms have strengthened the Commons, he says.7.03pm: Harper says he does not see a problem with having Lords elections on the same day as Commons elections.
Nick Clegg stamps his foot on electoral reform, but it won't split coalitionWatching Nick Clegg delivering a speech or statement, I often itch to rewrite the script in order to make the deputy prime minister sound less full of righteous, injured innocence, the victim of his wicked political rivals' machinations. I felt it again today as Clegg stamped his foot on TV and promised revenge on the Tories over thwarted Lords reform.Will it break up the coalition? All sorts of excitable people will probably say so. I doubt it. It's only the latest of a series of rows since May 2010, not the most serious in my view, and both sides have too much at stake to precipitate an early rupture and dangerous election – at least over an issue such as this which most voters don't greatly care about.
Those who 'voted blue to go green' are rightly angry that we have a Tory government that is breaking more of its promises by the day.Labour are holding a debate on this issue on Wednesday.2.07pm: Here is some of the reaction that we've had to the publication of the government's housing strategy.From Campbell Robb, Shelter's chief executiveWhilst we welcome the government's commitment to tackle our housing crisis, today's announcement falls far short of the quarter of a million new homes we need each year just to meet demand.We are concerned that schemes to help first-time buyers and council tenants will simply encourage people to overextend themselves, while doing nothing to address the sky-high cost of housing.
"As I said in the house last week, I accept that it was a mistake for distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalty to a friend. I accepted then it was a mistake to attend a meeting with a potential supplier without an official present and, with hindsight, I should have been more willing to listen to those around me."But Fox also sounded like a man who still doesn't quite get it. So many questions remain to be asked about what Werritty did on those foreign trips – and why he did it. Did he think he was a latter-day Lord Palmerston?A James Bond or a George Smiley? A patriotic businessman? Or a smart hustler getting his bills paid by suckers? What about Israel? And Iran? What about lobbyists and financial backers who must have hoped to benefit at some stage? Not everyone is a noble patriot.