News from the North
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TORY PLANS TO SCRAP FUND COULD COST 3000 NORTH EAST JOBS
Labour today attacked Tory plans to scrap a fund which would cost more than 3000 existing or planned jobs in the region. The Future Jobs Fund was announced in...
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Five questions for William Hague - The Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP's speech to Labour North Regional Conference 2010
Speaking to Labour's Northern Regional Conference, in Sunderland, Labour's Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon David Miliband MP said: “The great myth being peddled in politics is that today is that...
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Tories policy on One North East is "economic vandalism" - Blackman-Woods
Responding to the latest Conservative clarification on their policy towards Regional Development Agencies and their proposals to establish Local Enterprise Partnerships, Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Labour's Deputy Regional Minister for the...
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IAN MEARNS SELECTED AS PROSPECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE FOR GATESHEAD
The Labour Party has tonight announced that Ian Mearns has been selected as the party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Gateshead. Mr Mearns was chosen after a postal ballot of...
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Labour North chats to Ed Balls MP As the North's children go back to School, Labour's Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families chats to Labour North about the Free School Meals for All pilot in County Durham and investment in new schools across the region. |
News from Labour.org.uk
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Securing the recovery is essential - Gordon Brown
Alongside a speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, on the economy, the Labour Party is today publishing A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. The document sets out the choice that Britain faces between growth and increasing
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Take a long hard look at the Tories on crime - Johnson
When it comes to crime, David Cameron is more concerned with headlines than policies. That’s why he talks Britain down by deliberately misleading the public about crime figures even though his party has been censured by the Statistics Authority for doing this. The reality is the Conservatives have voted against
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Michael Foot - statements from Gordon Brown and Ray Collins
Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, commenting on the news that Michael Foot has passed away, said: "Michael Foot was a man of deep principle and passionate idealism and one of the most eloquent speakers Britain has ever heard. “He was an indomitable figure who
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For the last ten years the Conservatives have been concealing the truth - Straw
Jack Straw MP, Labour's Justice Secretary, said: "Lord Ashcroft was initially turned down for a peerage. He was only granted his peerage on the basis that he would return to live in the UK, become fully resident, and that he would pay tax in the UK on his wider income.
