The Labour party started life as the parliamentary division of the trade union movement. Judging by what Miliband has been saying in the last 48 hours, he now wants it to become the political wing of the Consumers' Association.10.20am: Is David Cameron going to call for Sir Fred Goodwin, the former RBS chief executive, to be stripped of his knighthood in his speech or (more likely) in the Q&A afterwards? Reading the Daily Mail spash, that seems likely. The Mail says Cameron is "sympathetic" to cross-party demands for Goodwin to be de-knighted, or whatever the word is. I thought that this was extremely rare but,
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If the Chancellor was to find other ways of taxing very wealthy people and raising more money from those people, that is surely the right thing to do.According to PoliticsHome, Laws also offered his version of the Lib Dem test for the budget.For us, the key issue is that there shouldn't be a net giveaway in tax to the wealthy during a time of austerity, but what we want to look at is the substance of this, not the symbolism. It is more important that the rich should be paying the same or preferably more after this budget than precisely which tax rate we tinker around with.This is broadly similar to what Tim Farron was saying (see 8.46am), but note the subtle difference. Farron said he wanted to know that the wealthy were paying more.
Cameron says this has been an issue for years. The government has said it will address the issue. Plans will be set out in November.12.20pm: Robert Halfon, a Conservative, asks Cameron to support the Fair Fuel UK campaign.Cameron says he would like lower wholesale prices to be passed on to the consumer. The govenment has already cut duty on fuel. The sector needs to be competitive and to pass on price cuts, he says.12.22pm: Gary Streeter, a Conservative, says Lord Bates is walking from Greece to London to highlight the Olympic truce (a plan to have a world ceasefire at the time of the Olympics).Cameron congratulates Lord Bates on his feat, which prompts laughter (feet,
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"The half-wit shut-ins speak: J.C. Watts as RNC Chairman? Republicans say no way," Steele tweeted,and linked to a news story in which members of the RNC laughed off Watts's prospects. "If you go back and look over my career," Watts says,citing Steele's insults,"you'll see that I've stayed away from that kind of language. But nevertheless I think Michael has seen up close and personal how you can get in that chair and you can get your legs chopped out from under you. He's got some personal experience."Why Did The Daily Die? The View From Inside the Collapse As staffers of the scuppered iPad "newspaper" The Daily emptied their desks and inquired about details of their severance packages,News Corp.
And all the politics stories filed yesterday,
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There are non-jobs on the rates and it's wrong that council tax should be used to subsidise trade union activity." ? Pickles has said that the government is considering giving councils new powers to deal with unauthorised protest camps. "We are reviewing what further steps can be taken to increase council powers to tackle unauthorised development and occupation," he said. "High-profile cases like Parliament Square and St Paul's show that the current system is far too slow and councils need stronger powers to protect local amenities." ? Cherie Booth has said women should have half the places in parliament and the boardroom. In a speech at Chatham House,
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I wouldn’t have voted for her,but I certainly don't celebrate her death. She was Britain's longest-serving Prime Minister of modern times and therefore deserved,I think,some sort of public recognition upon her passing. But it would be disrespectful to the memory of this great parliamentarian—this woman who used to revel in the cut and thrust of public debate—not to subject her legacy to?continued?public scrutiny. And I would like to do so as a Zionist.Thatcher—despite being a great friend of Israel (such that our Prime Minister attended her funeral),
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4.04pm: There's a twitter feed devoted to news from the Liverpool mayoral contest - @LplMayorWatch.4.43pm: Richard Kemp, the Lib Dem candidate for mayor and someone for whom the term "veteran" seems a bit of an understatement – he was first elected to Liverpool council in 1975 and his long career in local government has included a stint as vice chair of the Local Government Association – is skeptical about mayors. As we talked in his book-lined living room off Penny Lane, I read him the quote from the John Harris Guardian column I quoted earlier.Liverpool, though,
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