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"If business rates were completely localised, Westminster Council would gain over a billion pounds, the City of London would gain half a billion, but many other areas would lose hundreds of millions in vital funding," she said. "Until [Clegg] sets out in detail exactly how he will ensure that councils won't lose out under the localisation of business rates, we can't take his word seriously." (See 9.52am.)? William Hague, the foreign secretary, has said that two Britons were caught up in the Taliban attack on the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul. "I've spoken to one of the two British nationals involved on the telephone this morning," Hague said, as he made a statement updating MPs on developments in Libya.
Instead, the government was adopting a different approach to child poverty, he said.I don't believe that simply using a welfare system to move people from one side of a median income line to another is genuinely tackling poverty. If that approach had worked, then the previous Labour government, which build up these tax credits, would have succeeded. But actually the gap between the rich and the poor increased under that government. So we have got to try a different approach, which is life opportunities for people who currently don't have life opportunities. ? He said the coalition avoided the temptation to go for a "lowest common denominator" budget.We've not gone for the lowest common denominator with this budget, which you might have expected with a coalition two years in.
Our first challenge is to come up with a quote about reading, which may earn you a very special piece of posterity. For the time being, our lips are sealed - but enter your quote and watch this space. The task is to explain in a single sentence why reading matters to you.A couple of weeks ago we issued a Twitter challenge for six words summing up the best thing about reading, and had lots of responses which focused on escaping to other places:RT @soph_amelia: @GuardianBooks The best thing about reading is being able to do it on your own— Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) July 26,marc jacobs outlet (http://www.ytcgzx.net/), 2013@GuardianBooks The best thing about reading is the people you meet— Ruby Parker (@_bunnystalker) July 26, 2013@GuardianBooks knowing I'm either on holiday or in bed.
Think of the outrage of the trendy set in Hampstead when news broke a few years ago that McDonald's was establishing a branch in their hip corner of north London.Yet in recession-stricken Ireland the world is turned upside down. When Mayo county council blocked a planning application by McDonald's to open a drive-thru restaurant in Ballina the people rebelled… in favour of the burger chain.A petition has been gathered with more than 1,000 signatures demanding that the council reverse its decision and LET the fast food giant build its proposed takeaway. The pro-McDonald's lobby argues that it will bring construction and retail jobs at a time when both these parts of the Irish economy are in the doldrums.
And here are the items in the diary.10am: William Hague, the foreign secretary, hosts a UK/South Africa bilateral forum.10.30am: Damian Green, the immigration minister, publishes a "work routes to settlement" consultation.Around 12pm: Dominic Grieve, the attorney general,kate spade outlet online (http://www.cnnhkids.com/), announces his decision about whether or not to hold a full inquest into the death of David Kelly.Today as usual, I'll be covering all the breaking political news, as well as looking at the papers and bringing you the best politics from the web. I'll post a lunchtime summary at around 1pm, and another one in the afternoon. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA. 8.37am: The Times has published a wide-ranging interview with Tony Blair this morning (paywall), and the former prime minister has also been on BBC News and the Today programme.
No wonder respectable folk like Clem Attlee in postwar Britain looked at what Hitler and Mussolini had done with referendums and shuddered: "Not for us."But the referendum genie is out of the bottle, and we must live with the consequences. The blogosphere is awash with strident voices demanding DEMOCRACY NOW referendums. They think they speak for public opinion, but often don't.Julian Glover's valedictory column in today's Guardian – he's off to write speeches for David Cameron, who could use some smart help – offers a measured word of warning.If the Scots vote to leave, that's their choice – though I will regret it and think they eventually would, too. Ditto a changed relationship with Europe.
For example, after taking into account changes in prices, the poorest fifth of households spent, on average, around 250 per cent more on new cars, holidays abroad, meals out,cnnhkids.com (http://www.cnnhkids.com/), audio/visual goods (including TVs) and photographic equipment combined in 2009/10 than in 1986. This is compared with an increase of 20 per cent for the richest households.The analysis reveals that in 1986, the poorest fifth of households spent 55 per cent of their weekly expenditure on non-VATable items, compared with 45 per cent on VATable items. However, in 2001/02, this pattern had reversed. The poorest fifth of households spent, on average, 42 per cent on items which did not have any VAT levy compared with 58 per cent on items which did.
Cameron has already announced that shareholders will get the power to have binding votes on shareholder pay. What's not clear, yet, is whether the government will force companies to put workers on remuneration committees. Clegg talked about putting "much more power in the hands of other stakeholders in the economy - shareholders and employees - when it comes to setting top pay" but he did not directly address the workers-on-remuneration-committees issue.? He said that, over the long term, capitalism has been "one of history's great success stories".? He claimed that liberals had a particularly good record when it came to taking on "crony capitalism". That was because they had always championed free trade, he argued.