Friday, 14 February 2014

Tory MPs advised to avoid minimum wage - Politics.co.uk

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"It is disappointing and frankly hypocritical for a party to advise anything other than ‘you must pay the minimum wage to everyone working for you'."

Tory minimum wage row

Tory MPs advised how to avoid paying minimum wage

George Osborne: "Work always pays"

The Conservative Party is accused of hypocrisy after backing plans to raise the minimum wage while sending out advice to its MPs on how to avoid paying it.

Michael Gove

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Immigration and Asylum

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Wythenshawe by-election

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Comment and Analysis

The week according to Sean Dilley

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Comment: How Jeremy Hunt plans to sell your NHS records

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Voice reacts angrily to Michael Gove's "deprofessionalising"

Government and STRB deprofessionalising teachers and early years professionals.

Number of animals rescued by RSPCA from floods doubles in just three days

The RSPCA has released the latest rescue figures for flood stricken Britain - with almost 400 animals saved since Monday.

International summit on illegal trade begins in London

Strong measures sought to protect elephants, rhinos, tigers and other threatened species from poaching.

Celebrating 9 years of hunt ban with facts and myths

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Extra tax support from HMRC welcome - but difficulties must be resolved

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Flood weather wreaks havoc on nation’s animals

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