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“Its chair is Bert Massie and there are 14 other commissioners representing various interests such as the business, trade union and voluntary sectors, as well as Scotland and Wales”
“Ten of the commissioners are disabled”
“Scotland’s first Commissioner for Disability is Elaine Noad”
“It was a distance of about 400 yards”
“The house is sold at less than cost – for about £30,000 – but each family has to put 400 hours into the building work.”
“It wants to build 70 or 80 new houses on this Peace Line”
“In 1968, Labour lost 15 out of 18 boroughs in the London council elections;”
“in 1969, it lost nearly 1,000 council seats.”
“In 1977, after three years of Labour government which saw big increases in welfare spending, pension rights and trade union rights, and a pay boost for the low paid without parallel, the response of voters was to boot Labour out of most to…”
“That year, I worked hard in Birmingham to produce mini newspapers for 39 council wards extolling the virtues of a Labour council and government. My reward was to see 39 wards lost.”
“Labour still has 58 of the 66 council seats.”
“In a nearby ward, by contrast, the Labour vote fell by 25 per cent”
“But the 11,500 local councillors who represent Labour have been left out in the cold.”
“since 1997, unemployment in Rotherham has dropped to its lowest level in three decades.”
“a Lib Dem who had worked hard – if opportunistically – on local issues for two years.”
“In 1973, 27 per cent of women of working age with children under five were in jobs; by 1997, when Labour came to power, this had increased to 53 per cent”
“Two out of three women now return to work within 11 months of the birth of a child”
“73 per cent of mothers with school-age children have jobs”
“In the past three years, the government has created more than three times the number of childcare places that were created throughout the previous 18 years”
“With a budget of £300m, it has met targets for providing nursery places for all four-year- olds and is on track to double the number of places for three-year-olds by 2002”
“allowing parents with one child to claim back up to £70 a week of the cost of childcare”
“their joint income should not exceed £29,000”
“lone parents are automatically invited for job interviews when their child is five. From the end of this month, the interview will be triggered when the child is three; next year, those interviews are to be made compulsory”
“2,000 have been forced to close”
“nearly a quarter of women born in 1973 will be childless when they reach 45”
“The first meeting of the Joint UK-Scottish Action Group on Poverty takes place on Friday 19 May in Edinburgh.”
“the Scottish Parliament debate on independence on 10 May”
“following the Wall Street crash of 1929.”
“First World War”
“The 20th century”
“The Tories had taken Rotherham, one of the safest Labour seats in England, in a by-election, following the sad decision by the sitting MP, Denis MacShane, to accept a post in Brussells.”
“unexpectedly defeating Barbara Follett in Stevenage in the 2001 election.”
“Their first campaign – to get Livingstone back into the Labour Party – proved successful at the 2002 party conference.”
“(Livingstone, despite earlier pledges to stand down, acted true to form and stood as an independent in Brent East in 2001, and actually increased his majority.)”
“Roy Greenslade of the Guardian had been almost alone in predicting the bad general election result in 2001. He still waved the cutting around, the one that claimed Blair would win a majority of fewer than 20.”
“Mark Seddon – who had narrowly held on to Islington North for Labour after Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to work full-time for Reclaim the Streets – had announced that he would seek the Labour nomination for London mayor.”
“Since 1945, we have had 11 prime ministers, and eight of them were Oxford graduates.”
“More than six months later, the vehicle appears to be moving forward, and up through the gears, again.”
“By talking about asylum‑seekers and the collapse of law and order in the countryside, Hague cleverly picked two issues that are legitimate local government concerns.”
“by simply having stayed at his post for three years.”
“the inordinate amount of time and effort that the government has spent in the past year trying to secure additional rights for homosexuals is but one example of this.”
“About four million people who generally vote at elections stayed at home at the last election”
“Labour has 180 rural or semi‑rural seats.”
“£5”
“polling day 2001”
“during 18 years in power”
“She is 61.”
“the three-week marriage”
“she claims to have been unfaithful seven times”
“she’s had four children”
“producing more than 20 novels”
“The Feminine Mystique, which effectively launched the women’s movement in 1963”
“In the NS in May 1998, Margaret Hodge, now an education minister, proposed that 'teachers should become an elite force backed up by trained assistants'.”
“adult Scots can each call on the services of no less than 17 MSPs, MPs, MEPs and local councillors to make their views known.”
“On 2 May, ballot papers were sent out to 3.9 million Scottish voters with a request that they be returned on 22 May.”
“Souter’s organisation hopes to declare a “result” by 30 May.”
“it is expected to become law by 3 July this year.”
“it is expected to become law by 3 July this year, if the Scottish Parliament votes that it should.”
“With an electorate of 3.9 million, and a cost of £1m to mount a referendum...”
“Since 1997”
“Crest’s research finds that only one in ten voters in last year’s devolution elections found the ballot papers hard to fill in.”
“In Scotland, a two-to-one majority thinks that PR should continue to be used to elect the parliament”
“In Cambridge, votes for county councillors divided almost evenly between Labour (21,000) and Liberal Democrats (18,000).”
“But the very same voters overwhelmingly backed Labour (by 27,000 to fewer than 9,000) when choosing their MP.”
“In Pendle, three times as many people voted Lib Dem for the county council as for parliament.”
“on average, according to Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of Plymouth University, Labour parliamentary candidates performed four points better, Tories two points better and Lib Dems seven points worse than their council counterparts.”
“The last time that a general election and local elections were held on the same day was in 1979.”
“Rallings and Thrasher conclude: “Many more electors cast votes for different parties at the 1997 general and local elections than had done so at the comparable contests in 1979.””
“At the end of March 1982, the Tories looked as if they were heading for terrible results in the local elections five weeks later.”
“This started to change in the 1990s – remember the way Wandsworth and Westminster resisted the anti-Tory tide in 1990 and 1994 by promising to keep local taxes down.”
“On the night of 4 May, first-choice votes will be counted. If no candidate wins an outright majority, then the top two candidates survive into a second count.”
“Since 1997, the Policy Unit has 'totally underestimated the difficulties of trying to drive policy'.”
“He emphasised his willingness to lower the age of consent for homosexuals to 16 and to allow gay marriages.”
“Why do I share a party with those who advocate sodomite marriage?”
“cohabiting with Ffion (or anyone else for that matter) violated 'the Christian ideal'.”
“Only by remaining the guardians of our nation’s Judaeo-Christian traditions, he added, could the leader 'attract many Christians and others of traditional belief into the activist-hungry Tory party'.”
“Tim Montgomerie, a thirtysomething City analyst, founded the Conservative Christian Fellowship in 1990”
“We should not ask gays to vote Conservative, thundered Montgomerie. Instead, 'we should expose the unbiblical and the libertine'.”
“The next Conservative government will ensure that Christians have the same right to national and digital licences as anyone else.”
“The fellowship’s dash from the fringe has been physical as well as ideological. It moved from premises in the nicely named Widecombe Court, in Finchley, north London, to rooms in Conservative Central Office, down the corridor from Hague.”
“Rosindell’s proudest achievement was to fight against 'the awarding of a cash handout to an Islamic group'.”
“He promised to commit £1m to fund a campaign to 'Keep the Clause' and has been busy recruiting like-minded business leaders to the cause.”
“Many more electors cast votes for different parties at the 1997 general and local elections than had done so at the comparable contests in 1979.”
“At the end of March 1982, the Tories looked as if they were heading for terrible results in the local elections five weeks later. Instead, the party triumphed across the country.”
“On the night of 4 May, first-choice votes will be counted. If no candidate wins an outright majority, then the top two candidates survive into a second count. The second preferences of supporters of the eliminated candidates will then be a…”
“During last year’s parliamentary elections, Putin’s entourage even sponsored the creation of Refah, an Islamic party that now claims the allegiance of a dozen deputies in the 400-member State Duma.”
“She has just pulled off a master-stroke with a far-reaching plan for “the biggest housing project of its kind in Europe”, which is no less than root-and-branch reform of Scotland’s debt-ridden housing. One of its first consequences is the …”
“Overnight, at 36, she became Scotland’s most powerful female politician and the number one target for that special sourness Scots seem to reserve for female politicians.”
“despite its seven automotive industry teams.”
“leaving the children to hold an election in which Ken Livingstone triumphed (45 per cent), and only Susan Kramer among the rest scored respectably.”
“given the media’s friendliness towards Livingstone and his 37-point lead.”
“This proposal has stirred a range of opposition from the Lord Provost, Alex Mosson (the bridge will run through his ward), [...]”
“not much more than six months in the job”
“Stephen Bates was European affairs editor of the Guardian, 1995-99”
“expected to last at least a year, probably longer.”
“In November 1991, the Americans and the British jointly announced that they were indicting the two Libyans.”
“On 5 April last year, Gaddafi’s men were handed over to the warders from Glasgow’s Barlinnie jail awaiting them at Camp Zeist.”
“by December, Britain had restored full diplomatic relations with Tripoli.”
“Earlier this month, US diplomats visited Libya for the first time in nearly 20 years.”
“The Foreign Secretary who, at a meeting in London with Madeleine Albright in December 1997, persuaded her to accept the idea of a third country trial...”
