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“ended with government commitments to spend £3 million on improving the immigrants’ living conditions.”
“At the SNP’s national council later this month, the deputy leader, John Swinney, will propose a resolution that rings a clear note: “Scotland is in the process of becoming independent””
“It is conceivable that the SNP could form a Scottish government in the next ten years, and that is why the Swinney resolution will be adopted at the SNP National Council this month.”
“At the 1978 by-election at Glasgow Garscadden, which saw Donald Dewar return to Westminster, the Nationalist candidate was Keith Bovey.”
“Of the 15 departments that agreed to answer parliamentary questions on the suppression of research, 12 said that they included the power to veto publication in their contracts with academics;”
“Of the 12 ministries that replied to questions on censorship, nine said that politicians and bureaucrats instructed authors to rewrite.”
“Of the 16 that were prepared to discuss access to the media, 13 obliged academics to seek the permission of the Civil Service before talking to a journalist about their work, not just in the days before and after publication, but for the r…”
“A recent evaluation report has told us that 57 per cent of those leaving for an unknown destination moved into work,” she says, repeatedly.”
“The study found that only 29 per cent of the disappeared had jobs. Fifty-seven per cent had indeed worked, but many only survived a few days before returning to the streets.”
“At that precise moment, the government was receiving the results of a poll which showed that one in three mature students would be less likely to study full-time if fees were introduced.”
“The poll was leaked in November 1999.”
“In just three years, it has burnt its political capital by developing such a reputation for manipulating and fixing that it’s not believed even when it tells the truth.”
“There used to be no more than a dozen people writing about politics in Scotland. Now I’d guess there are around 40 or 50.”
“Margaret Thatcher delivered her notorious “sermon on the Mound” in 1989.”
“in 1920, at the end of a bitter world war, American puritans who advocated the prohibition of tobacco were indicted on the charge of treason.”
“an Economist poll in November 1999 found that 59 per cent of the UK population thought the US the most reliable ally in a crisis, while only 16 per cent chose Europe.”
“the lesser Scottish Tory, thought to have been wiped out in the 1997 general election.”
“32 months ago”
“33 years”
“18 list members”
“16 March”
“25”
“four-year contract”
“30 years”
“1979”
“1997”
“Liverpool continues to lose 1 per cent of its population a year.”
“Professor Stephen Crow’s report on South‑east planning last autumn aroused much Nimby anger from its forecast that another million or so homes were needed over the next 20 years.”
“The response from a consortium of 138 south‑eastern local authorities, each defending its own interests, was to spit into the prevailing economic wind”
“The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, which nationalised development rights, is almost the only postwar nationalisation that has not been repealed.”
“the Christian Democrats there 20 years ago”
“the Prime Minister a unique opportunity to re-inflame the nation’s passions by taking his full (Cabinet Office-approximated) entitlement of seven working days paid paternity leave.”
“on 9 March, after all, Blair hosted a VIP breakfast at No 10 to launch Labour’s 'Work-Life Balance' initiative.”
“Another commented on how women’s ministers had been shocked by the government’s final stipulation that parental leave for those with children under five would be unpaid. It would also be open only to those with children born since last Dec…”
“Unless, that is, the Prime Minister states that in order to support his wife and other three children he shall be taking his full quota of leave the moment his child arrives – and vanish for around ten days.”
“As the weeks towards May and London’s mayoral elections unfold...”
“The programme includes an employers’ forum, which will campaign to transform the workplace attitude towards employees seeking to take time off work.”
“For Labour’s 101 female MPs, many quietly very effective but given few public fillips...”
“The response from a consortium of 138 south-eastern local authorities, each defending its own interests, was to spit into the prevailing economic wind”
“after three weeks of more than 70 hours each”
“her absence in the voting lobbies would leave the government with a majority of 170 instead of 171”
“you’re not getting home till 11.30 or so, sometimes later, three nights a week”
“running whip from 3pm till 10pm, and frequently beyond”
“try to catch 40 winks”
“It was 80 years ago that the first woman MP, Nancy Astor, made her first speech in the Commons”
“9am till 5.30pm from Tuesday to Thursday”
“the first Paris mayor was elected in the late 1970s.”
“the name of Jean Tiberi, successor to Chirac for the past five years”
“the right’s mastery of all 20 city boroughs has dwindled under Tiberi.”
“(11 per cent or so)”
“almost 20 years when he was at the helm”
“he emerged from a meeting of his party executive to announce to the massed ranks of journalists and cameras that he was giving up the chairmanship of his Freedom Party. For the time being, he would content himself with the governorship of …”
“But instead of Grasser, Haider has appointed as his successor the coalition government’s vice-chancellor, Susanne Riess-Passer. The 39-year old Riess-Passer has always been Haider’s loyal spokeswoman and unconditional supporter”
“The huge, rain-sodden rally on Vienna’s Heldenplatz on 19 February has been followed with demonstrations every Thursday outside the Chancellery”
“Eva Nowotny, Austria’s former ambassador in London and now the senior diplomat in charge of Austria’s relations with the EU, warned of " the greatest crisis the country has experienced since 1945".”
“She is, her colleagues agree, an outstanding worker – a grafter, but also reliable and trustworthy, a woman with real ambition. But she finds the hours overwhelming. So would you: after three weeks of more than 70 hours each, she begged fo…”
“In this small case, the MP knew full well that her absence in the voting lobbies would leave the government with a majority of 170 instead of 171.”
“One said: “In September, when the Commons isn’t sitting, you’re in the Department doing your job and working efficiently, enjoying it. But as soon as the late-night sittings start, you’re not getting home till 11.30 or so, sometimes later,…”
“As often as not, MPs will be advised of a “running whip” from 3pm till 10pm, and frequently beyond, when their presence in the Commons is essential. Yet many hours, sometimes whole evenings, pass without a vote: they have sat disconsolatel…”
“One, Stephen Pound, says: “They’re like a group of kids playing war games, always fearing ambushes from the enemy. Well, they’re welcome to do that, I just wish they wouldn’t bully and browbeat the rest of us into having to join in.””
“One whip, Jim Dowd – he pulls the wings off flies,” says Pound, “and he’d thank me for saying that.””
“Another whip, Tony McNulty was seen in the lobby a few weeks ago with blood on his collar. “Cut yourself shaving?” asked a jovial MP. “Well it’s blood, yes,” answered McNulty proudly, “but it’s not mine.””
“It was 80 years ago that the first woman MP, Nancy Astor, made her first speech in the Commons. She once told the story of how it took two years for Winston Churchill to speak to her.”
“Why, she asked him, had he ignored her for two years? The reply was swift: “I thought if we could get rid of you, we could get rid of all the women. When a woman entered the House of Commons, I felt as though a woman had come into my bathr…”
“Eighty years on, there is still a little clutch of men clutching their loofahs with belligerent expressions.”
“The strength of feeling about the whips is extraordinary: one MP described their behaviour as “sadistic and humiliating; they really enjoy their power”.”
“Though male MPs are among the most vociferous complainers, this is a culture that seems almost designed to keep women out of the Commons. ... While the strange, unpredictable hours are tiresome and annoying for many male MPs, they make lif…”
“This is no way to run a small company, let alone a government, and it is no surprise that several of the newly elected women MPs are thinking of throwing in the towel and not standing again.”
“For three days nobody in the government seemed to know.”
“Brown was shadow chancellor for five years.”
“David Blunkett was shadow education secretary for three.”
“Gordon Brown repeatedly says – most recently on the Today programme on 22 February – that he expects a review of his economic conditions for entry.”
“The creation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900”
“secret electoral pact with the Liberal Party in 1903”
“remarkable progress in the 1906 general election”
“After the two general elections of 1910”
“In 1924, Labour formed a minority government”
“After the government’s fall in October 1924”
“it came in May 1926 with the miners’ lockout and the first and last general strike in British history”
“For 40 years, primacy lay with the politicians”
“The great Attlee government of 1945 and the lesser Wilson government of 1966 were both its products”
“The Wilson government’s defeat over “In Place of Strife”, and Edward Heath’s subsequent election victory in 1970”
“the two miners’ victories of 1972 and 1974”
“When, on 7 May 1940, Leo Amery told Neville Chamberlain”
“The 1935 election had returned only 154 Labour MPs”
“the appointment of the wartime coalition government led by Winston Churchill signalled the need for total mobilisation on the home front and set in train the developments that led to Labour’s landslide victory in 1945”
“In 1951, there was less poverty and better healthcare than ever before”
“when Labour went out of office in 1951 it was more popular than in 1945, having won more votes than any party had ever received in British psephological history”
“the £4.7 billion arms programme”
“amounting to the small sum of £23 million”
“Bevan – Welsh left‑wing socialist, ex‑miner, MP since 1929 – against Gaitskell – centre‑right product of Winchester and New College, Oxford, a relative newcomer promoted above Bevan to become chancellor in October 1950”
“Gaitskell still included the NHS charges in his Budget on 10 April”
“Bevan resigned on 22 April”
“On 26 April, 15 Labour MPs including Bevan and Wilson formed a group”
“Labour lost the election in October, and civil war followed, ended only in 1964 when Wilson, one‑time “Bevanite”, became prime minister”
“In the 13 succeeding Tory years, tension between old Bevanites such as Michael Foot, Richard Crossman or Barbara Castle and Gaitskellites such as Roy Jenkins, Douglas Jay or Anthony Crosland created a fault line in the party”
“Labour’s vote never again (not even in 1997 with a much larger electorate) approached the 13,948,000 it won in 1951”
“Bevan – at the centenary of his birth in 1997”
“The 1931 Labour government split apart over Philip Snowden’s doomed attempt to avoid Britain leaving the gold standard”
“Devaluation in 1949 brought Labour’s postwar reform programme to an end”
