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GUARDIAN Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:52:11 GMT
Seema Malhotra becomes MP in west London byelection after death of Alan Keen, increasing party's majority
Labour comfortably held onto the west London seat of Feltham and Heston in a byelection early on Friday morning, raising hopes among supporters of Ed Miliband that a whispering campaign against his leadership will die down over Christmas.
Seema Malhotra, a former adviser to Harriet Harman, retained the seat for Labour after a swing of 8.56% points from the Tories.
Malhotra increased Labour's majority from 4,658 to 6,203 when she won with 12,639 votes. Mark Bowen, the Conservative candidate, came second with 6,436 votes. Roger Crouch, the Liberal Democrat, fought off a challenge from the UK Independence Party to hold third place with 1,364 votes. UKIP won 1,276 votes.
The actual Labour vote fell noticeably after a low turnout of 28.7% – thirty points below the figure for the general election and the lowest in a byelection in eleven years.
The byelection was caused by the....
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GUARDIAN Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:53:35 GMT
Judge to decide on whether former Labour MP accused of falsely claiming £80,000 expenses should face trial
Margaret Moran, the former Labour MP accused of falsely claiming £80,000 in expenses, may not face trial after a court heard legal proceedings were a "threat to her life, not just to her liberty".
A Southwark crown court judge heard yesterday that three psychiatric experts all agree the ex-Luton South MP, who faces 21 charges, is currently unfit to plead.
Mr Justice Saunders will make a decision on whether the 56-year-old should be tried after hearing evidence from doctors at a hearing before 18 April next year.
Jim Sturman QC, for Moran, urged a swift decision on the case, saying: "These proceedings are a continual threat to her life, not just to her liberty, and the experts agree that she is unfit to plead."
He said he would ask the attorney general to apply for a "nolle", a rarely used power to allow the case to discontinue on exceptional grounds. He told the judge:....
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GUARDIAN Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:11:13 GMT
Judge says case involving Labour MPs David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine established an important point of law
Three MPs convicted of making false expenses claims do not have to pay back legal costs incurred in their battle to avoid criminal trial by claiming parliamentary privilege.
A judge ruled it would not be "reasonable" to expect David Chaytor, 62, Elliot Morley, 59 and Jim Devine, 58, to pay the £140,000 defence costs of hearings at the court of appeal and supreme court because the point of law established was "of public importance".
Chaytor, former Labour MP for Bury North, and Morley, a former Labour environment minister, were ordered to repay other legal aid sums granted for their hearings and subsequent convictions at Southwark crown court.
Chaytor, jailed for 18 months after admitting three charges of false accounting, was ordered to repay £23,036 out of a total of £80,932, as well as £23,176 prosecution costs.
Morley, the former MP for Scunthorpe, was......
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GUARDIAN Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:42:00 GMT
56% of UK population wants to see more investment in wind power, finds a YouGov survey
Does the UK have a "silent majority" in support of further investment in renewables? You wouldn't necessarily think so if you listen to the very vocal, media-driven opposition against, say, wind power, but a recent YouGov survey commissioned by the Sunday Times suggests the true picture might be a little different.
The Sunday Times itself chose not to report the YouGov findings related to renewables (you can draw your own conclusions as to why), but if you look beyond the headline polling about the 1,696 respondents' political leanings you start to reach some rather intriguing environmentally themed results from page seven onwards (pdf).
For example, asked (over the period 24-25 November) if they would support or oppose a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, the response was 54% in support and 27% in opposition. For a new airport in the Thames Estuary, 30%..
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GUARDIAN Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:25:00 GMT
Unemployment across the UK has risen again, and once more London has not escaped the national trend. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show the seasonally-adjusted rate for the capital for August to October to be a fraction short of 10%, the worst of any region apart from the north east of England and an increase of 0.3% from the previous quarter. November's ONS figures for claimants in London, which don't include all unemployment people, underline the continuing bad news. The total is 234,699, representing an 11.9% increase over the past year.
At constituency level, the highest percentages of claimants are in Hackney South and Shoreditch (8.6%), Tottenham (8.3%), West Ham (7.6%), Walthamstow (7.4%), Edmonton (7.3%) and Bethnal Green and Bow (7.3%). These locations prompt a certain bleak reflection: four are in Olympic host boroughs; two sit alongside the Square Mile; one is where the summer's riots began and another is its next door neighbour, a place grimly........
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GUARDIAN Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:09:46 GMT
Former Labour minister and coalition adviser says information on class should be collected as it is on gender and race
Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister advising the government on poverty and social mobility, has called on all professions to monitor the class of all job applicants, arguing that society needed to "shine a spotlight to change behaviour" and increase social mobility.
In a speech on Wednesday outlining his initial findings for ministers, Milburn, who will become the first chairman of the coalition's social mobility and child poverty commission next year, called for a radical shake up of "education and employability" policies. In the next six months he will produce three key reports: into social mobility and universities, access to professional jobs, and child poverty.
The Blairite former minister has had a busy week. This is his third policy intervention in three days, and marks a renewed urgency about his role as coalition adviser.
His major........
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GUARDIAN Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:30:02 GMT
Doctors, nurses and midwives are urged to join campaign for 'stability plan' – Labour's alternative to NHS shakeup
Labour is urging key medical leaders to back a plan B to shake up the NHS without using Andrew Lansley's controversial proposals, in a last-ditch attempt to scupper the health and social care bill.
The party is hoping to persuade leaders of Britain's doctors, nurses and midwives to join a campaign that would derail the health secretary's plan by persuading enough MPs and peers to back their alternative, which they call their "stability plan".
Andy Burnham, Lansley's Labour party shadow, met about 40 presidents and chief executives of key organisations such as the British Medical Association, NHS Confederation and royal colleges representing nurses, surgeons and midwives on Wednesday as a first step to try to win their support.
Burnham hopes to capitalise on the huge concerns about the bill, and is trying to form a united front to argue for proceeding with some......
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GUARDIAN Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:14:30 GMT
At both RBS and the News of the World bad practices were badly supervised and inadequately regulated
We live in a blame culture, where everyone instinctively looks for someone to pillory for disasters, real or imagined. So today's press provide a vintage crop of opportunities for witch-hunting.
No, not just David Cameron, George Osborne or Nick Clegg (take your pick) for screwing up the EU summit negotiations, there's also blame to be apportioned today for the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and the News of the World.
Let's talk the big money first. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) had to be bullied by MPs and the media into investigating the collapse of RBS as global liquidity dried up in the summer of 2008, leaving the over-ambitious and badly managed bank exposed to its cruel debt burden. It cost the taxpayer a £45bn bailout, half of which we may not get back.
Who was to blame? Labour ministers, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, who all favoured.......
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GUARDIAN Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:00:04 GMT
The coalition's policies could do more harm even than Thatcher, says Alison Garnham, head of the Child Poverty Action Group
Alison Garnham believes that the coalition government is in danger of emulating Margaret Thatcher's record on poverty. "It has been said her governments did two things for poverty: they increased it, then they pretended it did not exist. The coalition must avoid a similar, devastating legacy," she warns.
Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), acknowledges that the signs do not look promising for struggling families. Following the chancellor's autumn statement, the Treasury was forced to admit that another 100,000 children would be pushed into poverty as a result of the government's policies, such as freezing the child element of the working tax credit. A month earlier, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast that the number of children in poverty would rise by 800,000 by 2020 – despite the government signing up to....
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GUARDIAN Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:37:19 GMT
Even after 70 years, it doesn't take much to get the British press to refight the second world war
Even after 70 years, it doesn't take much to get the British press to refight the second world war. So, when David Cameron walked away from the table in Brussels last week, he triggered a predictable torrent of wartime rhetoric and headlines. On the Today programme, perhaps prompted by a Daily Mail article, John Humphrys put one of the most famous wartime images to Labour's David Miliband in a discussion about the single currency. "Very well – alone," suggested Mr Humphrys, referring to David Low's iconic 1940 Evening Standard cartoon after Dunkirk in which a solitary British soldier shakes his fist at the approaching Luftwaffe, implying that something similar now faces Britain after Mr Cameron's walkout. To his credit, Mr Miliband dismissed the parallel between fascist assault and the efforts to save the eurozone as the delusional comparison it is. Yet the fact the parallel was......
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GUARDIAN Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:23:29 GMT
Ex-Labour cabinet minister gets settlement after police said her phone had been hacked by News of the World
The former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell has accepted a £200,000 settlement from Rupert Murdoch's News International over the hacking of her phone.
Jowell's lawyers, Bindmans, confirmed on Monday that the News International subsidiary News Group, which used to publish the News of the World, had agreed to £200,000 in damages for breach of privacy and harassment.
Of this, £100,000 will be paid to a charity of her choice, with which she has worked closely and which will benefit young people in her south London constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood.
Another condition agreed with NI is that she will be given all of the documents relating to the phone-hacking accusations, Bindmans said. Jowell is also thought to have insisted she would disclose full details of the settlement.
Jowell has been told by police that her mobile phone was hacked "wholesale" by the News of..
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GUARDIAN Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:06:21 GMT
Cherie Blair is hardly the face of feminism, so let's be wary of an inherently flawed scheme she advocates
In her 2008 autobiography, Speaking for Myself, Cherie Blair recalls regular disagreements about the invasion of Iraq with her assistant, Fiona Millar. "In my view," she would tell Ms Millar, who urged domestic insurrection, "you and I should be supporting our men in these difficult decisions, not making it worse for them." Although it went a bit further than supporting. On the eve of the Iraq vote, Mrs Blair could be found actively agitating for invasion.
Her strong beliefs about a woman's role, vis à vis men and war, came to mind last week following reports about a lecture she gave at Chatham House, advocating female quotas in politics and boardrooms.
One reason for quotas, argued Mrs Blair, speaking as Cherie Booth QC, is that they will make the world nicer. In the UK, for example: "The greater number of women MPs who entered Parliament after the 1997 election led to a...
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GUARDIAN Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:06:57 GMT
David Cameron has made a crucial misjudgment, simply to appease the City and his own jingoistic rightwingers
The Tories are one of the world's most enduring political parties. But this long life is built on its cultural attractiveness to parts of the English middle class, especially in the home counties, rather than on its political judgments, which have, over the centuries, been almost continuously wrong, especially in foreign policy.
It was wrong to resist revolutions in France and the US; wrong to go slow over abolishing the slave trade; wrong to champion the Corn Laws; wrong to embrace appeasement in the 1930s; wrong to contest the decolonisation of India. The British right's instincts – jingoistic, imperialistic, anti-progressive and isolationist – have consistently led this country into calamities. Today, once again, the Conservative right, indulging its atavistic instincts and egged on by a no less atavistic right-of-centre press, is landing the country in the........
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GUARDIAN Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:20:34 GMT
The Sunlight company's assault on wages and benefits mirrors Whitehall's attack on public sector employees
Unilever workers have embarked on the first national strike in the company's history, over the company's attempt to close the final salary pensions scheme, which will result in a 40% reduction in retirement income for many of its workers. The company, in a stunningly inept move, decided to punish the strike by cancelling Christmas parties and bonuses for the workers. Thus, Unilever, a blue chip company that takes pride in its philanthropic past and "responsible" industrial relations policy, found itself branded Scrooge.
Unilever is one of the companies to have weathered the global crisis in robust fashion. In February 2011, its profits were up 18% on the previous year, at some £5.2bn. Labour productivity has always been reasonably high, in part due to negotiated productivity deals with trade unions. Yet, the company is on the offensive against its workforce. Why is........
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GUARDIAN Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:00:00 GMT
Nick Clegg and Greg Clark's clarion call for local leadership will founder if there is too little to lead. As Clark guest-blogs for the Guardian Northerner, our political columnist Ed Jacobs reflects
Is this the week that begins a new cities revolution across the North? For Deputy Prime Minister and Sheffield MP, Nick Clegg and Cities Minister, Greg Clark, that is exactly what they will be hoping for.
As he formally published details of the Government's City Deal, giving the country's eight largest cities, including Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester and Sheffield much greater opportunities and freedoms to raise and spend money locally, promote and support the skills and jobs agenda and encourage and support infrastructure projects. Nick Clegg's message was simple – it's time for Whitehall to get out of the way and enable our cities to gain the powers needed to become engines of economic growth.
Addressing the IPPR North's cities conference in Leeds on Thursday, Deputy......
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GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:00:18 GMT
The Lib Dems as well as Labour stand to suffer from changes in electoral registration. It must not become a lifestyle choice
In journalism, as in stand-up comedy, Frank Carson's law applies. It's the way you tell 'em that matters. If I was to begin this column by writing about electoral registration officers, full canvasses and ring-fenced local government funding, the chances are I'd have lost a lot of you already. On the other hand, if I start by saying that the government is about to deprive up to 10 million British citizens – one in five of us – of the right to vote in the next general election in 2015, then hopefully you'll pay attention.
Because this possibility is very real and very serious. Unless MPs of all parties, as well as citizens and campaigners, get their collective act together very soon, it could happen. Be clear about something else too. The changes I'm talking about may or may not be an intentional fix – as ever, cock-up has as much to do with the outcome as...
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GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:55:28 GMT
The politicians driving welfare changes have personal experience of the support they are seeking to erase
In just a few weeks, the coalition's welfare reform bill will face its final reading in the Lords. The bill is the single biggest change to welfare provision in the UK since Beveridge first reported on a welfare state that aimed to eradicate "Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness". In a campaign that has often been obscured by divide-and-conquer rhetoric to set apart those with disabilities from the wider community, it is vital that we all consider exactly what social security really means for us, and what form we need that security to take.
None of us are immune from ill health, disability or poverty. Cancer alone will affect one in three people, mental health problems will affect one in four. We will all rely on a pension when we retire. At some point, all of us will need to use the NHS. Social security is not the preserve of the poor or feckless, it is the great..
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GUARDIAN Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:10:01 GMT
The health secretary's 60 NHS 'benchmarks' are based on outcomes, rather than targets, making criticism of them that much harder
Contrary to what opposition leaders down the ages would have you believe, governments don't like targets. Measuring something is one thing, but setting yourself a statistical hurdle to jump over is dangerous – there's always the chance you'll catch your foot, do an impressive somersault and end up with grass stains on your face.
As leader of the Conservative party in opposition, David Cameron frequently excoriated the Labour government for their apparent love affair with measuring everything. To assume a mocking stance, look Gordon Brown in the eye and drawl "is he not the one who has imposed 3,000 central targets on our public services and local government?" became second nature to him.
The problem that every new government grapples with is this: if we don't have targets, how can we show the voters how much better we're doing than the last lot?........
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GUARDIAN Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:00:03 GMT
Cherie says she wants me to join her Booth Alliance for Real Feminism, but I suspect what she really wants is 50% off a Nancy tote
So when this Cherie voice went Samantha do you have a moment I just thought typical Clarksonator prank, given he is literally the funniest man on the planet? And I was still going, honestly Jeremy, stop being silly, btw Dave says to say the suicide riff was rofl hilair, when she said quotas are no laughing matter, Samantha, and I was like OMG sorry Mrs Blair because no way would Jeremy even say the q-word, because on Top Gear they think women bring bad luck? And Cherie was like, Booth actually, and I would welcome your support for my Booth Alliance for Real Feminism, or Barf for short, but if you prefer not to co-operate I am happy to ask Ms Miriam González-Durántez to help me make this country more like Tunisia. And I was like, why can't it be like more like Vogue, they have had quotas there for years, but Cherie went if she had been a Tunisian or.....
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GUARDIAN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:23 GMT
Read back through developments as teachers, border control staff, health workers and others took strike action over public sector pensions
• UK transport network suffers little disruption despite biggest strike in 30 years
• Only 58% of schools closed, despite predictions of 90%
• Government denies union claims that talks are over
• Cabinet Office minister brands 2m-strong strike "inappropriate, untimely and irresponsible"
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7.20am: Good morning and welcome to the Guardian's rolling coverage of the largest strike for three decades, as schools, hospitals, courts, the transport network and the government brace themselves for a walkout involving up to two million workers.
We'll have news from our reporters around Britain as the country prepares for the biggest day of industrial unrest since the 1979 Winter of Discontent.
Nurses, paramedics, cleaners, porters and receptionists at Birmingham Women's Hospital are among those who walked out at midnight in the row over........
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GUARDIAN Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:05:02 GMT
Young adults in need are being neglected by coalition's focus on children and pensioners, say authors
The government lacks a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy and risks neglecting large swaths of the population who are in dire need, such as young adults, the working poor and the 6 million under-employed, while its policies instead focus on children and pensioners, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
In a report, the foundation argues that the coalition's anti-poverty plan is repeating the same mistakes as Labour on poverty reduction, which it admits saw a reduction in child poverty by around one-seventh, but says did not tackle many other entrenched problems.
The coalition is ignoring the high level of poverty among young adults, almost a third of whom are in poverty, the foundation says. Ministers have also not focused on working-age adults without dependent children; the number in poverty has risen by 1 million in the last decade, it says. During the same period,....
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GUARDIAN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:00:03 GMT
If £600m will provide 100 extra free schools (More free schools, 40,000 extra places and nursery help, 30 November), how many extra free schools would be provided if the £2bn the MoD plans to spend at Aldermaston ahead of the Trident renewal decision were to be spent on schools instead (MoD spends £2bn on new nuclear arms plants, 28 November)?
Harry Davis
Thames Ditton, Surrey
• Britain's struggling motorists (£6bn to be spent on road building and rail projects, 30 November) can be thankful that their plight has at last been recognised. Some had thought that they might be forced to splash out on a more economical car; others, more desperate still, to use public transport. But now, until August, they can turn fossil fuel into carbon as before, while the deficit rises by a mere £1bn.
Nick Floyer
London
• I note that the chancellor says that every household will "save £144 on petrol costs this year". This is good news indeed, but surely he has missed a trick. Since this "saving"..
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GUARDIAN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:38:10 GMT
Families with children will be worse off in 2016 than 14 years earlier, analysis of George Osborne's autumn statement finds
High inflation, cuts and the longest period of wage stagnation on record will see the spending power of the average British family plummet over the next five years, a leading thinktank warned on Wednesday.
An Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis predicted that average incomes, adjusted for inflation, will fall by 3% this year and further in 2012. The director of the IFS, Paul Johnson, said: "In the period 2009-10 to 2012-13, real median household incomes will drop by a whopping 7.4% – a record matched only by the falls seen between 1974 and 1977."
As up to 2 million public sector workers walked out in protest against changes to their pensions, and signs emerged of a potentially damaging rift within the Liberal Democrats in the wake of George Osborne's autumn statement, the thinktank warned that families with children will be worse off in 2016 than they.....
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GUARDIAN Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:25:05 GMT
Ekaterina Zatuliveter is immature, calculating and self-centred – but not a secret agent, says panel
MI5 claims, backed by home secretary Theresa May, that the Russian lover of a Liberal Democrat MP was a spy for Moscow were rejected on Tuesday by a national security court specially convened to hear the case. In an unprecedented judgment, the court – the special immigration appeals commission (Siac) – dismissed MI5's assertion that Ekaterina Zatuliveter, lover and former aide to Mike Hancock, a member of the Commons defence committee, was planted by Russian intelligence. The panel judging the case included Sir Stephen Lander, a former head of MI5.
On MI5's advice, the home secretary last year ordered that Zatuliveter be deported on national security grounds, claiming her presence in the UK was not "conducive to the public good".
Reacting to the ruling, Hancock said: "I'm delighted at the news. I think it shows the security services to be a pretty inept bunch. I'm amazed that.....
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GUARDIAN Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:30:02 GMT
Free entry to national museums seems embedded in cultural life after 10 years. But it needs securing against coalition cuts
Ten years ago on Thursday, the last of Britain's national museums finally scrapped entrance charges. The abolition of paid entrance had been "a personal crusade" for Labour's culture secretary Chris Smith – and will be remembered as his chief legacy. The move is almost universally regarded as one of Labour's great achievements. The principle of free national museums has become political orthodoxy: the Conservative culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has made a point of never challenging it.
I remember walking into the National Gallery one day in the mid-1990s. I was in my early 20s, enjoying a new life in London, and was able to duck in, on a whim, through that great portico on Trafalgar Square because the museum had not introduced charges – as so many institutions, including the Natural History and Science museums, had been encouraged to do under........
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GUARDIAN Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:39:25 GMT
Down tools, and don the cloth cap! Tomorrow's strike is a moment for every cliche about going back to the militant past
Down tools, and don the cloth cap! Tomorrow's strike is a moment for every cliche about going back to the militant past. Between mouthfuls of beer and sandwiches, the Sun yesterday spat out that unionists scented "a heaven-sent opportunity to stick it to the nasty Tories, like their predecessors did".
The reality, however, is no rerun of I'm All Right Jack. With pay squeezed and insecurity rampant, few workers feel all right just now. Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader, the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment. For all the genuine anger of public servants about their pensions, we are talking a one-day stoppage as opposed to the sort of open-ended action that used to paralyse whole sectors for months at...
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GUARDIAN Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:44:57 GMT
• Conservative candidate has eight-point lead overall
• Ken Livingstone scores best on public transport
• Johnson is most trusted candidate on economy and crime
Boris Johnson, the London mayor, is heading for a second four-year term, according to a London poll giving him an eight-point lead over his Labour rival Ken Livingstone.
The London poll jointly commissioned by LBC 97.3 radio, the London Evening Standard newspaper, and ITV London Tonight also shows the incumbent mayor is most trusted on the economy, crime and policing but he is in danger of losing a significant number of votes on transport, where Livingstone proves more popular.
In results that are likely to give the Conservative mayor a boost before his second term bid in May, voters in the ComRes survey were evenly split for (36%) and against (36%) Johnson's idea of a new airport on the Thames estuary, while more than a quarter (28%) still not did not know either way.
Overall, if an election were held today, 54% of....
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