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Mark Thompson will meet with unions today
BBC meets with the unions

By politics.co.uk staff The BBC director general, Mark Thompson will meet with unions concerned at job cuts resulting from his new strategy for the corporation yesterday. The strategy pleased some highbrow TV watchers by promising better quality programming to make up for cut backs but it irritated loyal listeners of 6Music and Asian Network, which… Read more »

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William Hague found himself facing serious questions today
Ashcroft letters prolong Tory agony

By Ian Dunt Letters sent by William Hague to the prime minister between 1999 and 2000 in an effort to secure Michael Ashcroft’s peerage look set to prolong the controversy surrounding the party donor. Today’s Guardian also reports that Lord Ashcroft was rejected for a peerage twice specifically because of his tax status. Lord Ashcroft… Read more »