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British opposition chief David Cameron has sparked a minor diplomatic spat over a reported off-the-cuff remark about "one-legged Lithuanian lesbians", officials said today.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
David Cameron is to throw his weight behind the most radical shake-up of Parliament in more than a century by endorsing a plan to strip Scottish MPs of the right to vote on English matters at Westminster.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown was pressured again Wednesday to call a referendum on the new European Union treaty, amid opposition claims he would lose if one were held. ...
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Handing down his judgement, Mr Justice Henderson, said Mr Kostic would not have left the money to the Tories if he had been "of sound mind".
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Scott Taylor comments on Canadian politicians' "fact-finding" missions to Afghanistan. =====
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Kady O'Malley comments on a possible plan from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to construct a personal media centre to craft "media-friendly" news about the government. ====
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The Conservatives have lost a battle to keep an £8.3m bequest by a man whose son described him as delusional. Pharmaceuticals mogul Branislav Kostic, who died in 2005, wrote his will in the 1980s after saying Mrs Thatcher would save the world from "satanic monsters".
Source: Independent.co.uk
A wealthy businessman was suffering from delusions when he left the Conservative Party more than £8 million in his will, a High Court judge ruled today.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
"My wife said to me: 'How are you going to explain to an American audience what sort of Conservative you are?' I said: 'I'll say look at me and think of Arnold Schwarzenegger'."
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A Conservative Party student leader has been expelled from the party and suspended from university after making homophobic comments on a website.
Source: The New York Times
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the number of British troops would fall to 2,500 from about 5,000 by next spring.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Prime Minister Gordon Brown set out his reasons for not calling an autumn election tonight - saying he wanted to be judged on "vision" not "competence" at dealing with crises.
Source: Telegraph
The UK Labour Party has let Britain become a "permissive environment" for terrorists and extremists, the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool has heard.
Source: Telegraph
Two thirds of Britons want to have a referendum on the new European Union reform treaty - including a majority of supporters from the main political parties, according to an exclusive YouGov poll.
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The Conservative Party conference is due to get under way in Blackpool with a pledge that the Tories would abolish stamp duty for most first-time buyers.
Source: Telegraph
The average family hands over 50 per cent more of their annual earnings in tax than they did before Labour came to power a decade ago.
Source: Raw Story
For leaders of New York's Conservative Party, a group whose membership has been the target of a media blitz this month from organizations promoting a bill that would allow medical marijuana use, a firm stance against a substance that could potentially help the severely ill can be …
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The Conservatives say they are ready and waiting to fight a snap election. Prime Minister Gordon Brown does not have to call a general election until 2010 but has repeatedly refused to rule out calling a snap election.
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Gordon Brown continues to paint himself as the centrist of British politics, forsaking Labour tribalism and inviting Lady Thatcher to tea. As with his previous courtships with the right, this move has helped undermine Cameron and emphasise Conservative divisions.
Source: Telegraph
Every year a large number of British Asian women are coerced into marrying abroad, mainly in India and Pakistan.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The Tories' new logo has not impressed The Guardian.
Source: Daily Express
Channel 4 has been criticised for allowing extreme views including calls for Muslims to arm themselves, to be featured in a documentary which was shown yesterday. OPINION RELATING TO THIS ITEM
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The Conservative Party found itself at the centre of a police investigation last night after allegations a "Tory source" had leaked results of a postal ballot of today's Ealing Southall by-election.
Source: Telegraph
The Social Justice Policy Group has identified five causes of poverty.
Source: Canada.com
We don't want to knock our fellow journalists. Like them, we see how tempting it is to establish one's class bona fides by sneering at the Conservative party's sponsorship of a NASCAR Canadian Tire series vehicle.