00:41 UK time, Thursday, 15 November 2012
Prime Minister David Cameron will chair a meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday morning which will consider the military, humanitarian and diplomatic options for dealing with the conflict in Syria and the growing refugee crisis on its borders.
Mr Cameron believes the bloody conflict Syria is reaching what one of his advisers calls "the something must be done stage" - the moment when the public will demand action to save the lives of refugees massing on the country's borders.
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18:00 UK time, Tuesday, 13 November 2012
He's out...again.
Not as promised on a plane to Jordan but, this morning, in a car taking him back home here in Britain.
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14:22 UK time, Tuesday, 13 November 2012
What's the bit of economic news that voters have noticed more than any other since the coalition came to power?
Was it the £6 billion of spending cuts made six weeks after they came to office?
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18:06 UK time, Monday, 12 November 2012
"Hard to justify…not right… a matter for his conscience".
Today MPs of all parties lined up to condemn the pay off to the former Director General of the BBC, George Entwistle.
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17:25 UK time, Sunday, 11 November 2012
Nick added analysis to:
Many politicians are watching the BBC reeling from its self-inflicted wounds with a mixture of amazement and frustration but I detect little anger or desire for retribution
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14:10 UK time, Sunday, 11 November 2012
It's your turn.
That sums up in three words the attitude of many politicians and many in the press to the BBC crisis.
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18:10 UK time, Thursday, 8 November 2012
What began with crimes committed by a big-name celebrity who is now dead has moved on to a swirl of internet and Twitter rumours about politicians who are still alive.
Rumours which the prime minister was confronted with on ITV's daytime sofa this morning.
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18:08 UK time, Wednesday, 7 November 2012
You know what it's like when you invite someone to dinner.
There's always the question of who pays. Should you split the bill or should the host pick up the tab? So it will be tonight at one of Westminster's most exclusive private dining rooms - in No 10, Downing Street - when David hosts Angela.
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11:32 UK time, Wednesday, 7 November 2012
So Barack Obama has been re-elected as US president. What are the lessons from the campaign and result for British politicians?
1. Incumbents can still win
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17:36 UK time, Monday, 5 November 2012
Never was there clearer evidence of the difference the Savile scandal has made to attitudes to allegations of child abuse.
The prime minister has broken into a trip to the Gulf to announce an investigation into allegations that abuse at a North Wales children's home went much further than an official inquiry revealed and may have involved a senior Conservative from the Thatcher era.
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10:04 UK time, Thursday, 1 November 2012
On the morning after the fright night before, the chancellor says the government will listen. Listen, that is, to the call from the House of Commons for a cut to the EU budget. Yet the deputy prime minister says the government's "offer" to Europe is a real-terms freeze - ie: an increase in line with prices.
Even that could be hard to deliver, we are told, given that every one of the EU's 27 governments must sign up to any new long-term budget deal. Currently, 17 nations want an increased budget because they are net beneficiaries.
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18:09 UK time, Wednesday, 31 October 2012
A government which claims that it is facing defeat at the hands of its own backbenchers over the issue which has split the Conservative Party over much of the past quarter of a century - Europe.
A government which is told by one of its self-proclaimed friends that it lacks a convincing strategy for delivering its most important challenge - producing economic growth and creating wealth.
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09:05 UK time, Wednesday, 31 October 2012
"The message I keep hearing is that the UK does not have a strategy for growth and wealth creation."
That one sentence alone is a gift to Ed Miliband particularly on the day of Prime Minister's Questions. All the more surprising then that it comes from a report commissioned by the government and written by a former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister. This is a war cry from the man whose golden locks and virtuoso performances earned him the nickname Tarzan.
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08:53 UK time, Thursday, 25 October 2012
Curb benefits for big families. That, once again, is the cry coming from the Conservative side of the coalition.
The idea - to cap benefits after families have their second child - is guaranteed to generate headlines, controversy, but, you know what, very little money.
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00:04 UK time, Saturday, 20 October 2012
Day after day Andrew Mitchell refused to bow to calls on him to go. Day after day David Cameron backed him.
Day after day the story simply didn't die, until yesterday when the former soldier appointed to instil some discipline into Tory ranks lost the will to fight.
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19:01 UK time, Friday, 19 October 2012
Andrew Mitchell has resigned as the government Chief Whip.
He asked to see the Prime Minister after he returned from the EU Summit in Brussels.
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18:54 UK time, Friday, 19 October 2012
Andrew Mitchell has resigned as the government Chief Whip.
He asked to see the Prime Minister after he returned from the EU Summit in Brussels.
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12:24 UK time, Monday, 15 October 2012
They shake hands. They smile for the cameras. They hail an agreement which allows the people of Scotland to determine their own future. However, both men will know that there can only be one winner.
Either David Cameron is set to become the last Prime Minister of this United Kingdom, or Alex Salmond is on course to be the first nationalist leader forced to admit that his country has rejected the chance to become an independent nation.
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17:47 UK time, Wednesday, 10 October 2012
This conference season has scarcely featured a significant new policy. It has, though, revealed some important new political positioning.
The Liberal Democrats branded themselves as one of what were now three - and not two - parties of government. Nick Clegg insisted they could be trusted more with the economy than Labour and more with society than the Conservatives.
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14:51 UK time, Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Who are you really? What is your government for? Why are you doing what you're doing?
It is curious that almost seven years after he became his party's leader and more than two years after he became Prime Minister, David Cameron felt that those were the questions he had to answer today.
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