Here's an extract from his speech.It is to the eternal credit of this government – our government – that more progress was made on Lords reform in their first 13 months than happened in 13 years under Labour.But now there are firm proposals from the Coalition to lift our Parliament finally into the 21st century, the cynics and the diehards are preparing once again to block any change at all.They hope that simply by grumbling, by naysaying, by cavilling about the detail, and by prophesising failure, that they will achieve failure. For that is what they want.Nowhere is this tendency more prevalent than on the Labour benches in the Lords. One time bastions of socialism now not just pillars, but supporting walls in the House of the Establishment.
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But he said his proposals would force politicians to be less dogmatic. I've taken the quote from PoliticsHome.You can't strip the politics out of education. However, I looked at the last 20 years – there have been ten different education secretaries in the last two decades, and what everyone in education says to me is there's too much chopping and changing, a lot of people say to me there's too much dogma. Politics is about the resources we put in, it's about the values that underlay our approach to education, but what often disrupts education is a dogmatic approach that isn't based on evidence, and I think people will welcome something that says in addition to the politics,
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Which other nations' depositors might have to take a similar haircut in the future? Hopefully,savers will view Cyprus as an extreme one-off: a tiny nation whose banking system was unsustainably oversized for its economy,and whose substantial depositor base of kleptocratic foreigners made it uniquely difficult to deliver government support. The problem is,Europe seems to be chock full of unique,one time problems with its banking system. ?There's a real risk that investors will decide that they'd rather not stick around to see what one-of-a-kind,custom-crafted solution the European ministers come up with next.Former Ambassador Miguel Díaz on Pope Francis Pope Benedict XVI speaks with Miguel Díaz,ambassador of United States to the Vatican,during a meeting there in October 2009.
So here's the Commons running order.10.30am: Environment questions.11.30am: Hunt responds to the BSkyB question.Around 12pm: Business questions.Around 12.45pm: Nick Herbert statement about police bail.10.49am: Here's some more political comment on today's strikes. I've taken the quotes from PoliticsHome.From Ed MilibandThese strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are still going on, but parents and the public have been let down by both sides because the government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner. After today's disruption, I urge both sides to put aside the rhetoric,
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It is a source of "national shame" that only 60 children a year under the age of one are adopted when there are more than 3,000 children of that age in care.12.28pm: Cameron has a dig at Ed Balls. He is wrong when he's sitting down,
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In addition, there is conclusive evidence that these gains were real and sustained, and not merely a matter of small improvements occurring at the threshold of poverty. As Mike Brewer shows in Chapter Five, child poverty would have been reduced if the poverty line had been drawn anywhere from 43 to 100 per cent of median income. As a result, the 'poverty plus a pound' thesis is decisively disproved. This is particularly embarrassing for the coalition because ministers like David Cameron (here) and George Osborne (here) have repeatedly argued that Labour's child poverty policy just involved moving children from one side of an arbitrary poverty line to another.Stephen Timms (pictured),
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