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	<title>Westminster blog</title>
	
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	<description>Jim Pickard and Kiran Stacey share their views on the UK’s political scene for the Financial Times</description>
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		<title>Why doesn’t David Cameron introduce his own board gender proposals?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/9JPg7enfANU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has been quoted saying he will not rule out quotas for women on boardrooms as a way to get more women into top executive jobs. Speaking at a summit in Sweden, the prime minister said he wanted to &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/why-doesnt-david-cameron-introduce-his-own-board-gender-proposals/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Why doesn&#8217;t David Cameron introduce his own board gender proposals?"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>PMQs: Cameron tries to paint Tories as big spenders</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/KkeIXbZ6uG4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Lansley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health bill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Andy Burnham returned to the health beat for Labour, some in Andrew Lansley&#8217;s team were delighted. This is the man, they pointed out, who said he would not ringfence spending on the NHS. He even said that to do &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/pmqs-cameron-tries-to-paint-tories-as-big-spenders/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"PMQs: Cameron tries to paint Tories as big spenders"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Could the authorities face public disorder over council tax benefit changes?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/FseF17BEXOA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/could-the-authorities-face-public-disorder-over-council-tax-benefit-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of cuts to council tax benefit may sound esoteric; what&#8217;s one more cut in a world of public sector austerity? Yet most cuts to benefits are relatively simple to administer: you still give people money, just less of &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/could-the-authorities-face-public-disorder-over-council-tax-benefit-changes/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Could the authorities face public disorder over council tax benefit changes?"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>David Miliband: I’m not becoming a cross-bencher</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/r9X9F_XXUxc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/david-miliband-im-not-becoming-a-cross-bencher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two strands of thought are emerging about David Miliband, the Labour leader that never was, who launched his report into youth unemployment on Monday. The first is that he is a cowardly figure, willing to make coded but bitter attacks &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/david-miliband-im-not-becoming-a-cross-bencher/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"David Miliband: I&#8217;m not becoming a cross-bencher"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Network Rail drops plans for any annual bonus this year</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/aVNe99v0puM/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/network-rail-drops-plans-for-any-annual-bonus-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to know who will take the political credit for Network Rail&#8217;s directors dropping their plan for any annual bonus this year: Ed Miliband or Justine Greening? Both had made clear their concerns about any extra pay-out to &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/network-rail-drops-plans-for-any-annual-bonus-this-year/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Network Rail drops plans for any annual bonus this year"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Network Rail boss defends his bonus</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/WU56AsxCsv8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/network-rail-boss-defends-his-bonus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justine Greening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Rail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir David Higgins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/?p=106401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another week, another executive in the line of fire over their bonus. This week it is Sir David Higgins, the plain-speaking Australian in charge of Network Rail, which manages the country&#8217;s rail infrastructure. NR members are about to vote on &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/network-rail-boss-defends-his-bonus/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Network Rail boss defends his bonus"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Letters between Huhne and Clegg</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/jOZbcbpQj8o/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/letters-between-huhne-and-clegg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lib Dems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Clegg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Huhne]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/?p=106311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Huhne has written to both the prime minister and deputy prime minister offering his resignation. The exchange with Cameron is in a separate post. Here are the letters between the former energy secretary and Nick Clegg, the man he &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/letters-between-huhne-and-clegg/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Letters between Huhne and Clegg"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Letters between Huhne and Cameron</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/5HEMMQ2Jbgo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/letters-between-huhne-and-cameron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lib Dems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is what Chris Huhne wrote to David Cameron in his resignation letter, and what the PM wrote in return: This letter is to submit with much regret my resignation as Energy and Climate Change Secretary.  I intend to mount &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/letters-between-huhne-and-cameron/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Letters between Huhne and Cameron"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Reshuffle speculation grips Westminster</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/ZnWuR9IGqtI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/reshuffle-speculation-grips-westminster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Clegg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Huhne]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/?p=106251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The results are in, and, as widely predicted, Ed Davey has been promoted to energy secretary, with Norman Lamb coming into the business department. Jenny Willott has been made an assistant whip, while Jo Swinson is now Nick Clegg&#8217;s &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/reshuffle-speculation-grips-westminster/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Reshuffle speculation grips Westminster"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>IFS: Darling would have borrowed more than Osborne</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ft/westminster/~3/_NSk-BsHkUk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/ifs-darling-would-have-borrowed-more-than-osborne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiran Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When George Osborne told the country last November that he was going to miss the target of eliminating the current structural deficit by 2015, Labour were quick to tell everyone how the chancellor&#8217;s economic gamble had failed. Not only was &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/02/ifs-darling-would-have-borrowed-more-than-osborne/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"IFS: Darling would have borrowed more than Osborne"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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