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		<title>Nick Clegg fears Liberal Democrats will split if he backs minority Tory government</title>
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Nick Clegg may keep labour in power &#8211; ONLY the Conservatives will end Labour rule!


In his Saturday column Peter Oborne lists three reasons why Nick Clegg is likely to manoeuvre his party into a deal with Labour if there is a hung parliament:

&#8220;Clegg has discovered (rather to his personal dismay) that most of his party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guess what? The unions are spending more in the marginals than the Conservatives</title>
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This from Ian Kirby, the News of the World&#8217;s Political Editor (my emphasis):
&#8220;A highly confidential operation being run by Britain’s biggest trade union, Unite, is far bigger than the Tories’ own £3m marginal seats campaign. The union is using it’s own massive datatbase of members in a bid to persuade dithering former Labour voters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good government costs less with the Conservatives &#8211; David Cameron</title>
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Rt Hon David Cameron MP,
Saturday, March 6 2010
It&#8217;s great to be back in Wales. It&#8217;s four years since I first addressed this conference. Back then we were just a footnote in Welsh politics. And just look at what we&#8217;ve done since then.
We&#8217;ve won council seats in Denbighshire, in Powys, in Pembrokeshire. We&#8217;re running councils in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives launch iPhone app &#8211; Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary</title>
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The Conservative Party has today launched a General Election iPhone app for activists and voters.
Available to download for free on the Apple App Store, the tool will help supporters keep up to date with the latest news from the campaign trail.
Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary and Spokesman for Online Campaigning, said &#8220;once again, the Conservative Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Hannan calls for a return to sanity in the public finances and a revolutionary dispersal of power at the Brighton Tea Party</title>
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It was standing room only at the Boston Brighton Tea Party organised by the Freedom Association early this evening at which Dan Hannan was guest speaker. He said that it was time to &#8220;bring sanity and order back to the public finances&#8221; an that had to be done by reducing expenditure rather than increasing taxes.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives hold last conference before the election</title>
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The Conservative Party has held the first day of its Spring Forum &#8211; the party&#8217;s last conference before the General Election.
George Osborne, William Hague and Andrew Lansley were amongst those addressing supporters in Brighton.
The Conservatives have also launched a leaflet setting out the choices facing people at this election.
Click here to download the leaflet (in PDF format), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.24plusnews.co.uk/conservatives-hold-conference-election/</link>
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		<title>Labour have failed to get a grip on immigration &#8211; Damian Green</title>
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Damian Green has accused the Government of allowing immigration to run &#8220;out of control&#8221; following new evidence published by the Home Office.
The Shadow Immigration Minister was commenting on figures that lay bare the extent to which the Labour Government has failed to get a grip on the level of immigration in the UK.
The Home Office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.24plusnews.co.uk/labour-failed-grip-immigration-damian-green/</link>
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		<title>Another Labour councillor joins the Conservatives</title>
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The Conservatives are delighted to announce the defection of a leading Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets to the party.
Dr Anwara Ali, a Labour councillor in the borough since 2006, said her growing disillusionment with Labour and their failure to reform the NHS convinced her to join the Conservatives.
Commenting, Dr Anwara Ali said:
&#8220;I have been a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.24plusnews.co.uk/labour-councillor-joins-conservatives/</link>
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		<title>We still need a public inquiry into Stafford Hospital &#8211; Andrew Lansley</title>
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Andrew Lansley has called on the Government to launch a full public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital, following the publication of the Francis report.
The Shadow Health Secretary said that the only way to finally eliminate the &#8220;culture of secrecy and fear&#8221; that pervaded the hospital was to look at the issues &#8220;with maximum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.24plusnews.co.uk/public-inquiry-stafford-hospital-andrew-lansley/</link>
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		<title>Grant Shapps: We must shout from the rooftops about our radical and progressive policies on housing and planning</title>
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By Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing MInister
Following the launch of the Planning Green Paper on Monday (which Caroline Spelman wrote about on ConHome yesterday) I bumped into a couple of national journalists – from either side of the political spectrum – who were raving about the progressive and radical ideas that had just been announced.
Both [...]]]></description>
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