A selection of recent media reports
Sunday, 9 May 2010
When it came to immigration, the electorate just didn't agree with Nick Clegg
Guardian (08-May-2010)
Clegg meets frontbench MPs as he tries to broker deal Cameron makes astonishing power-sharing offer to Lib Dems Clegg emerges as kingmaker despite seeing poll bounce collapse Defiant Brown claims squatters' rights in Downing Street Nick Clegg today spoke to senior Lib Dem MPs as the party decides whether...
Mail Online (08-May-2010)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is at a critical point in its existence and will struggle for influence in 20 years' time unless it finds unity and firm leadership, a group of elder statesman said in a report issued on...
Reuters UK (08-May-2010)
Get that game show host on the line! Is that what we want? A coalition of losers? A deal done behind closed doors between Labour and the Lib Dems? Our Government put in the hands of the parties who whatever way you spin it came a distant second, and a crushed, emphatically rejected third? Many readers..
Mirror.co.uk (08-May-2010)
DAVID Cameron last night made a bold bid to become Prime Minister by joining forces with Nick Clegg. He believes a Conservative-Lib Dem pact would be enough to kick Gordon Brown out of Downing...
Daily Star (08-May-2010)
Hung parliament or not, the General Election produced one clear result on the night. All the TV pundits agreed that this was one of the most shambolic, incompetent and fraudulent elections Britain has ever...
Mail Online (08-May-2010)
THE future of Britain hangs in the balance this morning after David Cameron invited Nick Clegg to join him in a new vision for the...
Online Sun (08-May-2010)
A BOSNIAN Serb general serving 35 years for war crimes had his throat slashed in a British jail...
Online Sun (08-May-2010)
Brothers Shaan, 30, and Raza Khan, 33, have been sent to prison for three years for their part in a four-year human trafficking scam at the Rajput...
Harrogate Today (07-May-2010)
Of all the disappointed of this election, Nick Griffin's party were the biggest losers: a great win for antifascists and east...
Guardian.co.uk (07-May-2010)
Political correspondent, BBC News Liberal Democrat hearts will have skipped a beat as they listened to David Cameron make his "big, open and comprehensive" offer to join him in...
BBC News (07-May-2010)
David Cameron tonight faced the daunting prospect of selling a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats to the party faithful With the dust still settling on chaotic night in British politics, the Tory leader emerged to woo Nick Clegg with a raft of key...
Mail Online (07-May-2010)
by Laura Jones, Liverpool Echo FRANK Field comfortably held his Birkenhead seat for Labour last night. The Tories regained second place from the Lib-Dems in a result declared just before...
Hoylake and West Kirby News (07-May-2010)
A VIETNAMESE illegal immigrant has been running a cannabis farm in Thurgoland. Tai Van Nguyen paid gangmasters £14,000 to enter the UK and, in return, grew 400 cannabis plants worth about £120,000 at a home in Copster Close, Barnsley Magistrates Court...
Barnsley Chronicle (07-May-2010)
The British National Party has failed to take its key east London seat from Labour. In a high-profile campaign, leader Nick Griffin attempted to oust minister Margaret Hodge in Barking, where his far-right party has 12...
Mail Online (07-May-2010)
Indian origin Labour candidate Manish Sood, who called his Labour party leader Gordon Brown 'the worst prime minister', has lost badly in the Norfolk North West constituency in...
Irish Sun (07-May-2010)
Gary Younge was right to argue this week that the mindless "tough talk" of the right gets us no closer to a sensible debate on immigration. But he was wrong to let the left off the hook progressives have too often been both unprepared and unwilling to engage in the immigration debate. Gordon Brown's "bigot" gaffe today no doubt reflects tiredness and frayed nerves more than it does his view of the electorate, but it illustrates two problems with the way the progressive side of the debate talks and thinks about immigration.
IPPR (06-May-2010)
Telegraph View: The next administration must be able to command real authority in the new House of Commons.
Daily Telegraph (06-May-2010)
Yesterday you published a rather intemperate letter from several trades unionists which, inter alia, appeared to link Migrationwatch with the BNP. Your correspondents displayed precisely the attitude that has prevented a sensible debate on the issue of immigration for so long.
The Guardian (06-May-2010)
DAVID Cameron could be heading towards a historic victory in today's General Election - and the keys to No 10, a poll for The Sun dramatically predicted last...
Online Sun (06-May-2010)
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