Archive: Week In Politics

The Week in Politics: Galloway's re-entry, Qatada's non-exit

Another weekus horribilis for Theresa May

Gloating comes before a fall, as 'Theresa April' discovered to her cost this week.

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The Week in Politics: Don't cry for me, Westminster

Ken Livingstone in positive mode

The truth is, Ken Livingstone never really left you.

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The Week in Politics: Hot dogs and red carpets

Cameron and Obama chew over matters of state

David Cameron's trip to the States passed off marvellously - unlike Nick Clegg's rather bruising Lib Dem spring conference.

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The Week in Politics: The never-ending NHS nightmare

Campaigners at Wednesday's Save Our NHS rally

Budget stories are proving a welcome distraction for the coalition for what just might be their least popular package of reforms.

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The week in politics: Fight club!

Just another night in parliament

We should have seen Wednesday night's Commons contretemps coming...

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The week in politics: Man's inhumanity to man

Bashar al-Assad - the biggest villain this week of them all

Politics is always about enemies. This week the villains of the piece seemed to assume a central role, as MPs faced sinister adversaries both within and without government.

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The week in politics: Doom, gloom and govt defeats

The week in politics: Doom, gloom and govt defeats

This week wasn't just depressingly typical. Think about it: it contained, in microcosm, all the themes of British politics in the aftermath of the 2010 general election.

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The week in politics: Fighting talk from Holyrood and Westminster

You know it's bad when Northern Ireland politicians are offering to host peace talks

The mother of all parliaments has a problem: its adolescent offspring in Edinburgh is getting above itself.

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The week in politics: Did that really just happen?

David Cameron said no - and has left Britain on the fringes of Europe as a result

No one expected this week to turn out the way it has.

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The week in politics: Economic woe trumped by a bad joke

George Osborne - unexpectedly trumped by Jeremy Clarkson as most hated figure in politics this week

This week we learned the economy is nearly as far out of control as Jeremy Clarkson's sense of humour.

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The week in politics: Hard times to be in power (or out of work)

It'll have to do

Each week should have a beginning, a middle and an end. This one was no exception, although not quite in the way you'd think.

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Audio: Europe ructions and a knife crime kerfuffle

It's been a tough week for the prime minister

Alex Stevenson and Talksport's Sean Dilley review an eventful week in politics:

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The Week in Politics: Gaddafi and Fox, two very different political reckonings

Fox was dignified, but still disgraced

The last seven days have seen the departure of two politicians, but from two very different frontlines.

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The week in politics: How a Tory catfight stole the headlines

Claws out for an unexpectedly feline-themed Conservative party conference

Cat-gate, a credit card slip-up and being overshadowed by a crisis. This may not have been a Tory party conference to remember, but it was certainly one to write home about.

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The week in politics: Crime and punishment

Retribution took centre stage this week

After last week's violence and disorder, this has been the week when retribution took centre stage.

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The week in politics: A seismic shift in Britain's balance of power

Another tough week for "tired" Rupert Murdoch

The past is a foreign country, so they say. If that's true, even being transported to last Monday would give time-travellers a massive dose of culture shock.

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The week in politics: A textbook walkout

One of thousands of public sector workers who took strike action on Thursday

Teachers standing up for naughty kids. The prime minister rebuked by someone less important than him. Ed Miliband trying to break with the unions. What on earth is going on?

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