Charlotte Henry

Time to shut the gate

Isn’t it exciting, one of David Cameron’s friends possibly said something silly to some journalists in a bar? Guess what, he went to Oxford too?! Yes, Oxford! Hold the front page. Is this seriously what our politics has been reduced too? There are some...

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More from the anti-equal marriage hate camp

    As you can see, the whole thing was set up to look like it was advocating love, when really those there were just spreading hatred. I heard one preacher take up the microphone and say that the liberalisation of things like abortion and divorce had...

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Anti equal marriage campaigners set up hate camp outside Parliament

As MPs debate equal marriage in the Commons today, anti equality campaigners have set up a hate camp outside Parliament.   They are singing hymns, preaching and praying on a green outside parliament, as well as flyering passers by. While some members...

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Mandelson brands UKIP the “UK Isolation Party”

You can always count on Lord Mandelson for a quote, and so it was this morning. The noble Lord referred to Nigel Farage’s rag-tag band as the “UK Isolation Party”, and accused Eurosceptic Conservative MPs like Joh Redwood of being “fellow travellers”,...

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114 Conservatives vote against Government on Queen’s Speech

Tonight 114 Conservative MPs have backed a motion ‘regretting’ the lack of an in/out EU referendum bill in the Queen’s Speech, and voted against their own government’s agenda for the year ahead. Awkward.

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Cabinet Office spent over £10 million on consultants in first quarter of 2013

Even in times of austerity it seems to be a boom time to be a public service consultant. The table below is made from data taken from the Cabinet Office spend data website, and shows that in the first three months of 2013 the office the houses David Camron,...

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Cabinet Office spent over £10 million in first quarter of 2013

Even in times of austerity it seems to be a boom time to be a public service consultant. The table below is made from data taken from the Cabinet Office spend data website, and shows that in the first three months of 2013 the office the houses David Camron,...

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Recommendations of the Shakespeare review of open data

Today Stephan Shakespeare released his open data review, an put forward a variety of recommendations. The government should produce and take forward a clear, predictable, accountable ‘National Data Strategy’ which encompasses PSI in its entirety. A significant...

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Lib Dem John Hemming to vote with Tory Rebels on EU

John Hemming will join the Conservative rebels in voting to support their EU motion. The Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley is currently the only Lib Dem to vote for the motion, which is going against the Queen’s Speech.

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