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...is what they have told me to say! Conservative MP Grant Shapps, Shadows got an Secretary Jim Murphy. Welcome. British troops are going to leave the Sangin...

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...are one or two hands, while trying to keep the numbers low at the other end. Michael Howard changed all that, and that became the new conventional wisdom...

...Foulkes. Today's top storey, British troops are to leave at the Sangin area of Helmer and in Afghanistan by the end of the year, handed over responsibility...Jim Murphy. Welcome. British troops are going to leave the Sangin area of Helmer and in Afghan

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...is likely to feel the impact the most, possibly losing up to 10 seats. And Scotland will also lose up to eight seats and the changes. But Labour says it...constituency the same size. would thank us not to get in a conversation about Scotland, but Scotl

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...and command point of view to keep a British battle group away from its main Brigade when it is now Pan-American So, we are pulling out of Sangin. We are...

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...that is what we will be clearing up. John Baron! The latest report from the US Department of Defense to Congress highlighted the speed and decisiveness of...

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...this morning. Jim Murphy, it is clear just from the figures according to Ofsted that behaviour is no better than satisfactory in one in six schools. So...

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...Many of the perpetrators are sent to prison, rightly in my view. Now the Justice Secretary has embarked on a sentencing review, and has suggested that...not going to be carried forward. Can I congratulate him… And it is that the Justice Secretary is