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Video footage shows Ian Tomlinson falling to the ground
Lawyers withhold Tomlinson post-mortem

By politics.co.uk staff A third post-mortem of Ian Tomlinson, the man who died after being pushed to the ground at G20 protests last year, has been withheld from the coroner. The Crown Prosecution Service and Independent Police Complaints Commission are also understood not to have seen the examination, conducted by a forensic pathologist. The post-mortem… Read more »

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The TUC has raised the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's ill-fated poll tax
TUC: Cuts will incite ‘poll tax’-scale revolt

by Peter Wozniak The government’s push for deficit reduction will lead to public unrest on the same scale as during Margaret Thatcher’s failed attempt to introduce a poll tax, the Trades Union Congress has argued. Kicking off a campaign to oppose the coalition’s spending cuts at the grassroots level, the TUC implied that the government’s… Read more »