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Intriguing @edballsmp attack on PM = too close to Germany & blocking EU deal.PM & Merkel close on austerity BUT not on ECB/Eurobonds r they?
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13:10 UK time, Sunday, 20 May 2012
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Lib Dems agree with @D_Blanchflower. Beecroft dismissed as "Tory donor with bee in their bonnet"
10:45 UK time, Sunday, 20 May 2012
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FOI is reason Beecroft plan to cut red tape being published. Interesting that No 10 spinning as PM push for growth. Over to you Vince
18:36 UK time, Saturday, 19 May 2012
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Can anyone who was at Camp David confirm that White House so unimpressed with 2 EU Presidents they were forced to share a cabin?
10:31 UK time, Thursday, 17 May 2012
Battling to win economy argument
The Coalition believed that it was winning the argument on deficit reduction, but fears it is in danger of losing the argument on growth.
That is the principal reason for the prime minister's speech today and his insistence that there is no choice between austerity (bad and found wanting) and growth (new and potent). So, David Cameron claims that deficit reduction and growth are NOT alternatives: indeed, he argues, delivering the first is vital to securing the second.
03:13 UK time, Thursday, 17 May 2012
Cameron sticks to his charted course
The language could not be clearer.
"It's time to stand firm" and "to resist dangerous voices" calling for "retreat" and "to take the right course" not " the easy one".
23:09 UK time, Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Good luck tomorrow @Faith_Alice and all ASLevel politic-ers sitting first exam tomorrow morning
15:29 UK time, Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Labour withdrawing calls for Hunt to give evidence to Commons first after #Leveson calls his adviser and News Int PR to appear at Inquiry
17:10 UK time, Sunday, 13 May 2012
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OMG what extraordinary drama. Exhilarating, depressing, addictive. Need lie down in dark room
16:32 UK time, Sunday, 13 May 2012
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Deep breaths, keep calm, pray .... Son left house as can't bear the tension
15:46 UK time, Sunday, 13 May 2012
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Grew up 20 miles away. That do? @RankyStagno: NO! Not ANOTHER Utd fan!?!Can you offer me as valid a reason as Michael Crick did?Gauntlet!”
14:47 UK time, Sunday, 13 May 2012
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Counting on United to win 9 nil and seize the title. As John Cleese once said "I can cope with despair, it's the hope I can't stand"
16:07 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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Impact of Brooks @leveson for press = judge clearly dislikes abuse of press power to lobby for business interests & to bully their enemies
16:05 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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Impact of Brooks @leveson for No 10 = coziness (LOL) embarrassing. "Hunt" email keeps Culture Sec on probation. Could have been a lot worse
15:23 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
Brooks - Now it's getting serious
So, the prime minister signed off his texts to Rebekah Brooks when she was Chief Executive of News International "LOL" - and thought it meant lots of love until she told him that it meant "laugh out loud". So what?
Something emerged today at the Leveson Inquiry which is much more significant than confirmation that David Cameron was chummy with a woman who was friends with every recent Prime Minister and who is the wife of an old school friend and lives near him in Oxfordshire.
15:18 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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#Leveson exploring whether SUN got Dominic Grieve & Sharon Shoesmith fired and whether it unfairly targeted enemies - G Brown & T Watson
15:11 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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“@DAaronovitch I sense that #leveson preparing to say that tabloid personal attacks are evidence of an unregulated abuse of press power
14:59 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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...email from Fred Michel of News Corps who referred to JH when actually speaking to his adviser
14:58 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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Key evidence today- email alleging that Hunt asked News Corp for private advice on hacking "to guide his and Number 10's positioning" but...
13:01 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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LOL will grab headlines but news will bFCC at DC/RB discussed BSKYB bid & hacking allegations and met repeatedly over Xmas #leveson
About Nick
Nick started blogging about politics for the BBC in 2001 when he was one of the earliest mainstream journalists in the UK to adopt the format.
He has been in his current role since 2005.
Before he was political editor, he did the same job at ITV News, before which he was chief political correspondent for BBC News 24, deputy editor of Panorama and a presenter on BBC Radio 5 live.
He began his time at the BBC behind the microphone, starting as a trainee producer in 1986 on Brass Tacks, Newsround and Crimewatch.
Based at Westminster, he has particular responsibility for serving the flagship news programmes, including Today on Radio 4 and the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One.
Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1963, he attended Cheadle Hulme School, followed by University College, Oxford where he studied politics, philosophy and economics.
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