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Are voters bored of Tony's chancellor?
Brown offers more of the same for voters eager for change

More than half of voters hope the next general election will bring a change of government, the latest Guardian/ICM opinion poll suggests. Some 54 per cent of voters polled said they were hoping for change in the next term, with just 21 per cent wanting Labour to remain in government. Worryingly for Gordon Brown, who… Read more »

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Reid not an 'Cromwellian, right-wing security obsessive'
Home Office split ‘pivotal’ to security, Reid claims

Splitting up the Home Office will improve security but not at the expense of liberty, the home secretary John Reid said yesterday. Mr Reid outlined the timetable for strengthening the Home Office’s anti-terror capabilities yesterday, which will see responsibility for prisons, probation and sentencing hived off to a new Ministry of Justice. The remaining Office… Read more »