? Launching new transport schemes in cities to be made easier.? Cities to be allowed to create apprenticeship hubs.? Government to research where skill gaps are in cities.12.00pm: You can read all today's Guardian politics stories here. And all the politics stories filed yesterday, including some in today's paper,
kate spade outlet online, are here.As for the rest of the papers, here are some articles and stories that are particularly interesting.? Peter Oborne in the Daily Telegraph says David Cameron's career could be destroyed by Europe.The Prime Minister has a very dangerous party revolt on his hands. Yesterday, the flames of rebellion crossed the line from the backbenches into the Cabinet – a significant moment.
It led to famous libel suits from both Jonathan Aitken and Neil Hamilton against the Guardian, both dramatically lost, and to the creation of the standing committee on standards in public life.The "slagheaps affair" (1974) in which Harold Wilson's staff were supposed to be involved amounted to less than initially met the eye as they often do. Wilson's obsession with disloyal security apparatchiks though was later made more real by the Spycatcher affair, (1982) which symbolised another rich crop of postwar scandals: the loyalty and competence of MI5 and MI6.Ever since fellow travelling members of the 1930s Cambridge Apostles started giving Moscow secrets and later defecting – Burgess and Maclean, Philby etc – there has been a trickle of drama, climaxing in the belated public exposure of the arch-villain, art critic and establishment hypocrite, Anthony Blunt by Thatcher in the Commons in November 1979.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been criticised for failing to buy British-made cars for its major embassies overseas despite the ministry's own guidance to source vehicles in the UK wherever possible.When David Cameron arrived in Washington in March for a major official visit he was driven in a Mercedes, the German marque, prompting puzzlement from some observers,Freedom of information requests made by the Financial Times have established that only three out of 17 cars in the Brussels and Washington embassies were built in this country. The FCO subsequently admitted that fewer than a third of cars in its embassies around the world were made in Britain. ? Ruth Gledhill in the Times (paywall) says David Cameron will preach a message of benevolance towards one's enemies when he gives a reading at St Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.
This is at a time when despite the UK accounting for just 15 per cent of beer consumption in Europe, drinkers in the UK pay around 40 per cent of beer duty in Europe. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA 3.09pm: Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has also been reading the HMRC report on the 50p rate. (See 2.30pm.) Here's what he told the BBC. I've taken the quotes from PoliticsHome.It's really important to be absolutely clear what the government is doing here – what they are doing, and the document confirms – they are cutting the taxes for 300,000 top-rate taxpayers. And it confirms the cost of that next year will be ￡3bn – they're giving ￡10,
www.cnnhkids.com,000 to every top-rate taxpayer.They are gambling that if they give ￡10,000 to the richest people who currently pay tax, they'll somehow be able to recoup ￡2.
"The camp that has been set up a stone's throw from London Stock Exchange is an opportunity to explore a different kind of future to the one the mainstream political parties have constructed." She will visit the camp later today.? Bob Crow, the RMT general secretary, has accused MPs of being "on the skive" because the Commons will hold a mini recess in November. As the Press Association reports, the Commons will pack up on Tuesday November 15 and not return until the following Monday under a timetable published by Sir George Young, the leader of the Commons. This replaces the break traditionally held around that time of year ahead of the Queen's Speech, which has been postponed by the coalition until the spring.
20am: Mervyn King (left), the governor of the Bank of England, is giving evidence to the Commons Treasury committee now. You can watch it on the parliament website. He has just warned that "buying time" in Greece (which is seen by some as a fair description of the EU's latest bailout plan) will not provide a longterm solution.Buying time appears attractive very often,
www.ytcgzx.net, because the immediate crisis appears to go away. They will get to bed earlier. They relax more. But in fact if the underlying problems have not changed, the crisis comes back in an even more severe form. And that has been the case right through the past 18 months in trying to deal with Greece, Portugal and Ireland, and indeed in the problems for the euro area as a whole, which is why I say that there are dangers in just buying time, because if you forget the problem and say "well thank goodness, that's gone away for a few weeks", that could be a very dangerous attitude of mind.
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