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Universal credit will encourage move into work

11:57am Wednesday 1st May 2013

THIS week sees the start of Universal Credit (UC), a huge change in the way we do benefits and a big moment in the history of the welfare state.

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Don't engage in conflict without a plan to mop up afterwards

1:12pm Wednesday 3rd April 2013

MOST of my Easter recess is taken up with overseas ministerial visits. This week it’s Libya, where I’ve already been as the first UK minister in Tripoli since last year’s elections.

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Hell hath no fury...

2:45pm Wednesday 13th March 2013

DAVID Cameron has given a boost to apprenticeships.

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People must be told the truth about what they're buying

8:59am Thursday 14th February 2013

THE Francis report on the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust makes for grisly reading.

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Taking stock of achievements

11:31am Wednesday 9th January 2013

THE antidote to mid-term blues is a stocktake of what you’ve achieved so far and a forward look to the couple of years before you face the voters.

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Postive changes in armed forces

4:55pm Wednesday 12th December 2012

I OFTEN say, only partly in jest, that I am the MP for the British Army, given that there are at least 10,000 uniformed personnel plus their families living in the Devizes Constituency.

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Free vote is gay marriage clincher

4:54pm Wednesday 12th December 2012

I’M told more than 300 dogs are abandoned every day.

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Qatada laughs at taxpayers' expense

11:29am Thursday 15th November 2012

HOW is the release of Abu Qatada conducive to the public good?

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Town saddened by soldiers' deaths

12:59pm Wednesday 19th September 2012

The death of two soldiers from 3 Yorks in a “green-on-blue” incident at the weekend has greatly saddened the garrison town of Warminster where they were based.

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A case of the flip-flops

11:15am Thursday 23rd August 2012

A SEVERE case of the flip-flops is afflicting the Opposition, or maybe it’s just amnesia.

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