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Clegg defiant as peers bid to scupper referendum

By Alex Stevenson Nick Clegg has insisted an attempt to block the electoral reform referendum planned for this May will fail. The deputy prime minister’s comments came after a marathon 21-hour all-night session of the Lords, the first of several expected this week, came to a close in the upper House. The government has to… Read more »

Chilcot fury as Blair/Bush memos kept secret

By Ian Dunt The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war began a new session today, with an angry outburst from the chairman over secrecy from the government. Sir John Chilcot said that the Cabinet secretary had refused to let him publish memos between Tony Blair and George Bush which revealed the then-prime minister’s thoughts in… Read more »