All articles by Steve Norris – Page 6
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The Tories’ troubles are nothing compared with Labour’s
Writing this on Sunday for publication after Wednesday’s Autumn Statement and not having a crystal ball, I don’t yet know how George Osborne will have unpicked his last Budget’s approach to working tax credits, but I guarantee he will have done so, not least because of pressure from his own ...
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Governments trying to be too clever never works
I’m not entirely sure that when Margaret Thatcher declared “you turn if you want to” she quite realised that her successor but one as a Conservative prime minister would take her words so literally.
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What George Osborne should say to party conference
Down in Brighton, the strangest party conference in years dragged on to a less than rousing close.
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Corbyn will be bad for UK property industry
It really doesn’t matter who now tells the Labour party that electing Jeremy Corbyn as leader is committing electoral suicide; he has already won.
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Labour may be in chaos but beware complacency
“We hope he wins. That would be the best scenario”. So said the Socialist Party, formerly the Militant Tendency, of Jeremy Corbyn, who by now is looking a genuinely credible candidate for the Labour leadership.
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We must do more to create housing affordable for young
Every London mayoral candidate has a recipe for solving our housing crisis.
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What the government’s key struggles will be
Now the smoke has cleared over the election battlefield, the scale of the challenge for the new government is emerging.
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Political predictions after surprise Tory win
Along with the rest of the political world I got the result wrong.
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Two elections might not be such an unlikely outcome
One consequence of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act is that we’ve had to endure the political parties slagging each other off while promising the earth for several months now and the only silver lining to this unwelcome cloud is that we only have to suffer another three weeks of it.
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Still everything to play for as election campaign hots up
If there was one recurring theme among the Brits in Cannes this week, it was that with eight weeks to go until the general election nobody has any real idea what the result is likely to be.
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Cameron may have to rely on Labour stay-at-homes
Twelve weeks to the general election and it’s still too close to call.
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Dear politicians: stop fudging
About the daftest piece of legislation rushed through in the early days of this coalition government was the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
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Party leaders must stop making promises they can’t keep
The polls suggest another UKIP win in next week’s Rochester and Strood by-election.
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Politics of property: Impending referendums threaten to redefine the UK's political landscape
Two significant events have rocked the political establishment in the past two weeks, and the common thread is a referendum.
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The seat may be a safe bet, but Boris will not be hailed as a saviour
So Boris has finally decided to run for Parliament at the general election next year.
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Juncker the deal-maker could seal the deal for UK to leave Europe
European Union leaders voted 26 to 2 to approve Jean-Claude Juncker’s nomination as the next president of the European Commission.
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Conservatives who switch to UKIP might as well give their vote to Labour
There is less than a year to go before the next general election.
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UKIP’s short-term success will not translate to general election
It is now a year before the next general election.
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Farrell’s buoyancy aid can keep bloated cities afloat
Sir Terry Farrell is this country’s leading architect planner. Quite apart from his iconic buildings around the world, no one has done more to promote urban planning and design as the bedrock of 21st century cities.
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London’s uber-rich cannot buoy Britain forever
One of the joys of MIPIM in recent years has been the presence of a substantial Russian pavilion, where teams of delightful young ladies offer limitless investment opportunities, often in places most of us have never heard of.