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Plan that tied Labour into a countdown
Analysis: At Westminster they couldn’t remember an occasion like it – a sitting of the Commons having to be suspended because a minister had failed to arrive in the chamber.
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Probably not the start of a beautiful friendship
Holyrood sketch: Of all the gin joints in all the subordinate legislative assemblies in all the world, she had to walk into his. But you know what they say: sooner or later, everybody comes to Eck’s.
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Straw leads tributes at Dunwoody funeral
Jack Straw led the tributes yesterday as MPs across the party divide paid their respects at the funeral of long-serving parliamentarian Gwyneth Dunwoody.
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Alexander under fire from all sides over referendum
Wendy Alexander yesterday confirmed the rift that has opened up with Gordon Brown over her support for an independence referendum.
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Another side, when he’s sitting comfortably
“This is an opportunity for you to be a human being,” said Fern Britton in an introduction to the Prime Minister that rather gave the game away.
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Twists and turns on road to vote impasse
In January last year, in the run-up to the Holyrood election, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair laid down a clear marker on Labour's views of a Scottish referendum.
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Alexander: Cameron accuses Brown of losing control
David Cameron today accused Gordon Brown of losing control of the Scottish Labour Party after its leader, Wendy Alexander, broke with previous policy to call for a referendum on Scottish independence.
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Alexander’s poll own-goal leaves Labour FC looking to subs’ bench
Sketch: Wendy, Wendy, Wendy. Just when his Britannic Majesty is floundering in political quicksand, Labour’s leaderene from north of the Border decides this is the time to plonk a dead albatross around his neck. With friends like these...
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Experts defied as cannabis laws are tightened
In defiance of medical advice and scientific opinion, the government is to press ahead with the reclassification of cannabis as a class B drug, possession of which will carry a maximum five-year prison sentence.
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Pledge to meet £40m funding shortfall for free elderly care
Scott Macnab A £40m funding shortfall in the flagship free personal care policy is to be met by the Scottish Government.
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