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No party has come clean on scale of cuts – thinktank
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Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre faces the music
London-based Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre says he has been the target of unfounded attacks
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Nick Clegg wows the public in his role of Spanner in the Works
David Hare: From the minute he upstaged Brown and Cameron, Clegg has been performing to packed houses
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Idris Elba defends Thor film role
Race debate stirs after London-born star of The Wire wins role as Norse deity Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh's new film Thor
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Liberal Democrats fail to attract party funding despite electoral surge
Donations to the Liberal Democrats during the second week of the election campaign were dwarfed by those to the Tories and Labour despite Nick Clegg's party surging in the polls
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Old faultlines persist among parties on how to help poor through tax changes
Labour proposals would benefit low-income families, but Liberal Democrat reforms are the most radical
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Nick Clegg accused of hypocrisy over home profit
Lib Dem leader accused of profiting on the sale of his Brussels home while he was receiving daily allowance as an MEP
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NIC 'tax on jobs' claims by bosses undermined by company figures
Evidence from M&S, Sainsbury, Next and Mothercare shows no correlation between social security costs and employment
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Election 2010: Rising VAT is the campaign's gorilla in the room
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Digested election: Peppa Pig refuses to save Labour's bacon
Popular children's character cancels her campaign appearance and the Tories dump Michael Caine as head of the militia
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Ed Balls: the man Tories want decapitated
Meet the Brown loyalist the Conservatives want to subject to a 'reverse Portillo' at the election
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Police community support officers criticise Tories for refusing to guarantee their future
330 PCSOs write letter to the Guardian urging the Conservative party to rethink spending plans or risk an increase in crime
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Baseball nerd who predicted Obama's win foresees Labour meltdown
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It's like The Truman Show – but starring Lembit Opik
Marina Hyde: Inexplicably, the Clegg campaign seems to have kept Lembit's wattage under a bushel thus far
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Gordon Brown blasts Tories and Liberal Democrats over child tax credit cuts
Labour leader Gordon Brown says he 'shocked and angry' over what he calls the opposition's 'coalition of cuts against children'
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Cameron's big society makes little impact on voters
Cameron wants volunteers to fix Britain. Amelia Gentleman asks people in Barwell what it all means to them
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Mike Smithson's bet of the day: Good odds on seats
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Conservatives suspend Scottish candidate over homophobic remarks
Philip Lardner, candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran, said homosexuality was 'not normal behaviour' -
David Cameron heckled by parent over special education
Father of boy with spina bifida claims Tories will make it more difficult for disabled children to get into mainstream schools
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Ferocious fight for fat toff who has heard it all before
Tory candidate Nicholas Soames shrugs off the fat toff epithet but says battle with Lib Dem candidate has become 'toxic'
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Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts
Culture is peripheral to politics in Britain. MPs, who readily parade their favourite football team or pop group, will only support the arts in private
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General election stylewatch: David Cameron's bags
The black leather briefcase is best left on the battlebus but the Longchamp tote bag is far more revealing