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Sally Gimson Articles

The second jobs trap

Ed Miliband secured a clear win at prime minister’s questions today. He had set a trap for the prime minister, and David Cameron fell into it. It was the second jobs trap. Normal people have second jobs because they are on minimum wage and cannot pay the rent. The...
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‘We followed procedure’

‘We followed procedure,’ was David Cameron’s only defence of his employment of Stephen Green, the former chair and chief executive of HSBC. As an answer from a politician, let alone a prime minister, it is little better than: ‘I was just following orders.’ That a...
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The triumphalism of the Tories may yet sink them

The triumphalism of the Tories may yet sink them. It was a disgusting sight to behold, the party scenting blood and baying for it. Today was a tough day on the Labour benches. The bad polling in Scotland, Ed Balls’ inability on Newsnight yesterday to remember the full...
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A brutal and unedifying prime minister’s questions

Well, well well, the Tories are certainly rattled on the NHS. That’s what it looked like at prime minister’s questions today as Cameron shouted at Miliband. Labour of course ran the NHS as its third policy pledge yesterday and it is turning into the top issue with...
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