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- NATS FACING BOTH WAYS ON EAST COAST SERVICES, SAYS HARRIS
Nationalist ministers are misleading the public over their deliberately misleading response to Lord Adonis's announcement this morning, said Tom Harris, MP for Glasgow South. "They're claiming they welcome the new...
- HARRIS WELCOMES NEW EAST COAST MAIN LINE TIMETABLE AS 'GOOD FOR GLASGOW AND GOOD FOR SCOTLAND'
Glagow rail passengers will welcome the new East Coast Main Line (ECML) timetable unveiled today, Tom Harris said today The Glasgow South MP had lobbied ministers heavily after...
- Closed Circuit TV Bill will help put regulation on Home Office agenda
Local MP Tom Harris has presented the Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion) Bill to Parliament. Inherited from the Glasgow North MP Ann McKechin, the Bill seeks to help provide...
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I GENUINELY believe the Tories are backing themselves into a corner over their proposed tax breaks for married couples.
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- Report reveals Tories' threat to families
A new report shows that George Osborne's plans are badly flawed and would mean taking child tax credits away from couples each earning over £16,000 per year A new report from the Institute for Fiscal
Studies (IFS) has shown that families on modest and middle incomes would have to lose out to make Conservative plans add up. Research by the independent think tank was originally cited by George
Osborne as confirmation that his plan to
- Conservatives risk to the recovery
A new report shows how the Conservatives' plans for immediate cuts could damage the economic recovery, as well as hitting families hard. Warnings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the
National Institute for Social Research (NIESR) call into question Tory plans to cut spending in 2010. Child tax credits and Trust Funds are amongst programmes set to be cut, hitting families hard and
threatening the economic recovery. Speaking to The Politics Show in
- Stars launch poverty campaign: GlobalPovertyPromise.com
Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Annie Lennox, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal are among the big names launching a new poverty campaign today, the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Make Poverty
History speech in Trafalgar Square. In a campaign video released today, the celebrities invite people to show their support for a new law that would commit the UK to spend 0.7% of national income on
development assistance, by signing up to www.GlobalPovertyPromise.com The celebrities use
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