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Combine work and education to kickstart UK economy, peer advises
Lady Bakewell says employers 'need shaking up' and should encourage staff to take part-time degree to boost prospectsThe Labour peer Lady Bakewell is urging British firms to kickstart the economy by...
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Royal Mail dismisses claims of stamp price increase
Royal Mail denies campaigners' claims that privatising postal service will see first class stamp price reach £1 in three yearsRoyal Mail has dismissed as "pure speculation" claims by campaigners that...
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Did Margaret Thatcher transform Britain's economy for better or worse?
Supporters say she saved the UK; detractors say she made it unbalanced and unequal. The truth is somewhere in betweenReversing Britain's long-term economic decline. That was the daunting task Margaret...
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What is Thatcherism?
From free markets to low tax, and a small state, Thatcher made privatisation a global brand, but was undone by deregulationMargaret Thatcher was unique among British political leaders, raised amid...
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Letters: Margaret Thatcher and her legacy
Grocer's daughter to PM sounds like a meritocracy to me but merit isn't enough to endear. Of course she wasn't everyone's cup of tea, more like a strong espresso. Bound to offend due to her natural...
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Housing and retail figures raise hope of UK economy emerging from doldrums
Improved data suggest Britain avoided triple-dip recession in first quarter of 2013 but jobs market weakens againHopes that the UK economy is emerging from its post-recession torpor were boosted today...
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George Osborne's constituency: the coalition cuts hit home
Knutsford, at the heart of the chancellor's Tatton constituency, appears to be the epitome of aspirational Tory Britain, but it is already deeply divided. Patrick Barkham talks to local people about...
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Why zero-hours contracts remind me of the horrors of 1990s Russia | Guy Standing
The degraded and demonised precariat is scrambling around in a twilight zone of 'jobs' in which they must remain on standbyThe labour market is in a mess. And the government and Labour are setting out...
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The unmentionable in Osborne's plan to cap the benefits bill: pensioners |...
A limit on spending. 'Automatic stabilisers' for the economy. Protecting pensioner benefits. Osborne can't have all threeIs the benefits bill spiralling? Recent polling indicates that two-thirds of...
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Clearing up the mess that Margaret Thatcher left | Frances O'Grady
Only when we have democracy in the boardroom will we have broken Thatcher's kind of capitalismMargaret Thatcher was good at destruction. Some say she revolutionised British politics – certainly never...
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Tony Blair warns Labour could be reduced to a protest party as cuts bite
Labour issues pointed response to former leader's article urging party not to 'settle back into its old territory'Ed Miliband must prevent Labour returning to a "comfort zone" in which it attacks all...
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The North East needs to break free from its isolation to grow its economy
Former transport minister Lord Adonis, chair of the North East Independent Economic Review, proposes a version of London's Oyster card as one way the region can to fulfil its potentialThe strengths of...
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Tony Blair's 'dispassionate' recipe for a bloodless technocracy | Mark...
Considering what the Tories are trying to do to the country, we should be hugely passionate – furious evenToday marks the real return of Tony Blair to the domestic political debate, after an absence of...
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Throw out the myths about Margaret Thatcher | Ken Livingstone
The reality was that Thatcher was neither popular nor successful economically. Labour must make a clean break with her policiesIt is a truism that history is written by the victors. As Margaret...
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Tony Blair is right: the post-1945 social democratic model has to change |...
Europe's centre-left parties, who dominated two distinct periods of postwar history, must reinvent themselves againWhat does social democracy stand for in tough times? As social democratic leaders from...
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The Thatcher effect: what changed and what stayed the same
From the right-to-buy scheme to social attitudes, James Ball examines how life changed in Britain under Margaret ThatcherDatablog: Thatcher's legacy – Britain in 1979, 1990 and todayPerhaps the only...
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Privatisation: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Privatisation has been an area of contention since Thatcher, and its impact on many UK communities is still being felt todayThe goodAlthough many of the now-privatised companies are part or fully owned...
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Work Programme can't keep up with number of jobless, government told
Private firms in flagship back-to-work scheme complain of too little funding and too much demandThe coalition's flagship Work Programme for the long-term unemployed is failing because there are just...
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Chris Riddell on David Cameron and the death of Margaret ThatcherChris Riddell
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If Thatcher's revolution had truly saved us, why is Britain in such a mess...
The claims made for Mrs Thatcher's transformative powers are grossly exaggeratedThe empress has no clothes or, at least, not the clothes in which so many want to robe her. Despite all the praise, Mrs...
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