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Bankers 'vital' for recovery, says Johnson
The mayor warned against the dangers that high taxation and over-regulation would pose to the economic recovery.
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Cameron unveils 'boldest' jobs package new
Monday, 5 October 2009
The Conservative leader's promises include waiving employer National Insurance on the first 10 staff for any new business created in the first two years of a Tory government.
Tories warned: a mountain to climb
Monday, 5 October 2009
Tory supporters were warned today the party still had a "mountain to climb" to win the next General Election.
Hague warns against complacency new
Monday, 5 October 2009
The shadow foreign secretary told Tory party activists that Labour would run a 'wholly negative' campaign playing on people's fears.
Cameron feels Eurosceptic heat ahead of conference
Monday, 5 October 2009
Nigel Morris: Hopes of party unity undermined by calls for commitment to referendum on Lisbon Treaty.
Britain offered Gaddafi £14m to stop IRA support
Monday, 5 October 2009
Robert Verkaik unearths secrets that reveal an extraordinary proposal
Cameron spells out plans to cut incapacity benefit claims
Monday, 5 October 2009
22.6 million claimants face stringent tests and possible £25 reduction per week
Osborne plans employer tax cut to create jobs new
Monday, 5 October 2009
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne today announced plans to create 60,000 new jobs at the start of a new Tory Government by cutting taxes on employment.
SNP legal threat over TV debate
Monday, 5 October 2009
The Scottish National Party has threatened legal action if Alex Salmond is forbidden from participating in the proposed television debate between the main UK party leaders.
Andrew Grice: Cameron's European headache new
Monday, 5 October 2009
Andrew Grice: Cameron's European headache new
Monday, 5 October 2009
The Tories are in confident mood as their conference gets underway here in Manchester. They've even been instructed to be smiley and nice to the journalists. Behind the painted smiles, there is deep frustration that the media has got its teeth into its favourite bone: Europe.
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1 Britain offered Gaddafi £14m to stop supporting the IRA
2 New Jack the Ripper suspect unveiled new
3 Minor British Institutions: The Bay City Rollers
4 Bankers 'vital' for recovery, says Johnson
5 Tories vow to create 10,000 more university places
6 Whatever James wants, James gets – and that includes bringing 'The Sun' out for the Tories
7 Cameron spells out plans to cut incapacity benefit claims
8 Myth of ancient Greece's 'heroes' blown away
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12 Stop going on about women's rights, Prescott tells Harman
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2Is Monty Python's Flying Circus dead as a parrot?
3Ministers take flak from the Army on visit to Afghanistan
4Cameron feels Eurosceptic heat ahead of conference
5Vital embryo research driven out of Britain
6Cameron spells out plans to cut incapacity benefit claims
7Potter star's film secures release after fan pressure
8Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It's time to stand up and fight the new misogyny
9Jenny Colgan: I absolutely love books. That's why I hate the Booker
Columnist Comments
• Bruce Anderson: Europe must be a priority for the Tories
There must be a full-scale renegotiation of our relations with the EU
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Stand up and fight the new misogyny
Ours is the age of libertine sexism and verbal debauchery
• Philip Hensher: The Cameron dilemma for impressionists
Our respectable, well-scrubbed politicians have cartoonists in despair
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