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In a speech to the Blairite Progress think-tank today, Lord Mandelson will resurrect the 1997 Labour manifesto commitment to be ''wise spenders, not big spenders'' in an effort to seize the initiative in the row over public expenditure.
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Every £4 spent on family planning over the next four decades would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than a ton, whereas a minimum of £19 would have to be spent on low-carbon technologies to achieve the same result, the research says.
The report, Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, concludes that family planning should be seen as one of the primary methods of emissions reduction. The UN estimates that 40 per cent of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended
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Harriet Harman, then the social security secretary, said: "We are determined to tackle the scandal of one in five households of people of working age having no work.
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Two million people living in the United Kingdom have never held a job down - while three million more have been out of work since before Labour came to power.
If you are at the bottom of the heap NL will help, Tories want you to work, but would never say so.
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Thousands of teenagers leave school barely able to read. Grinding child poverty is on the increase.
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French jails are not as nice as ours.
Hundreds of Britons will be extradited for minor misdemeanours ranging from driving offences and drunkenness to more bizarre crimes such as stealing chickens, under new rules which come into force next year.
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We rescued the French twice in two wars and beat the Germans, with a little help from our friends. Now in terms of GDP and really everything else they are pulling away from us. NL and UK business are leading us down the path to second class EU status. If we get passed by Italy it will be over, Spain is in a similar mess.
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John Redwood MP says: Inflate and devalue?
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Many experts predict dole queues will stretch past the three million mark next year - but an even gloomier forecast from the Centre for Economics and Business Research says it could approach four million.
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We only have to wait till 2014 to get back to 2005 GDP levels.
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