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A Conservative government would not stand by while unemployment rises in Britain, David Cameron said this afternoon. Between June and August the number of people without jobs rose by 164,000, increasing the total to 1.79 million. Mr Cameron moved firmly away from his party’s traditional laissez-faire approach to unemployment as a painful but necessary consequence… Read more »
Public trust in government ministers has declined in recent years, a survey suggests. The Commons’ committee on standards in public life today published the results of its third biennial national survey on attitudes to conduct in public life. Its chairman, Sir Christopher Kelly, says the results show “worrying trends”. The proportion of people thinking that… Read more »
