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Cyprus Articles

A downgraded budget from a downgraded chancellor

I began business questions this week by wishing everyone a Happy Easter as this was the last session before recess. I have heard rumours that there are plans afoot to start selling a ‘coalition’ Easter egg so I enjoyed speculating what that might look like. It would...
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Pre-budget sparring

It was inevitable on budget day that PMQs would be dominated by questions relating to the budget. A flurry of pointed questions from Labour backbenchers on the 50p top rate of tax left David Cameron repeating the line that when Labour put the top rate of tax up...
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Ireland and the Commonwealth

A wise mandarin at the FCO once cautioned me that if came to foreign countries encouraging Ireland to join the Commonwealth it would be best done alphabetically. Countries such as Australia, India and Mozambique would have more sway than Ireland’s nearest neighbour.

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Votes for prisoners

The prisoner vote row illustrates the further death of liberalism in politics, and is fuelled by a visceral anti-Europeanism

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