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Britain needs 'savage' cuts, says Nick CleggBold and even "savage" cuts in government spending will be necessary to bring the public deficit down after the next
election, Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, says today.As the three main parties begin the conference season with competing proposals for how they would make spending cuts, Clegg used a Guardian interview to set out plans including a long-term freeze in the public sector pay bill, scaling back future public sector pensions, and withdrawing tax credits from the middle class. He is even prepared to examine means-testing universal child benefits, though he is cautious of destroying "middle-class solidarity" with the welfare state."I find it odd that people on multi-million pay packages from the city get child benefit. That's patently silly and patently unfair," he says.Clegg predicts that voters will show Gordon Brown the exit at the general election, and pleads with Labour not to hold a referendum on electoral reform on the same day, saying it will set back the case
Guardian Saturday, September 19, 2009Senate Republicans push for end to bailout fundWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday called on the Obama administration to let the authority to tap a $700 billion financial bailout fund expire at the end of the year as scheduled.
Reuters Saturday, September 19, 2009The Secretary, in Her Own WordsSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her first eight months on the job:
Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009A Team Player Who Stands ApartWith the exception of former senator Edmund S. Muskie's brief turn as secretary of state at the end of the Carter administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first politician in the job in six decades -- the rest have hailed from the fields of
foreign policy or the
military.
Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009Editor Irving Kristol, 89; Architect of NeoconservatismIrving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals, like himself, who had been "mugged by reality," died Friday at Capital Hospice in Arling...
Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009Inquiry Into CIA Practices NarrowsThe Justice Department's review of detainee abuse by the CIA will focus on a very small number of cases, including at least one in which an Afghan prisoner died at a secret facility, according to two sources briefed on the matter.
Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009Conservative Activists Find Cause to Celebrate at D.C. GatheringAs conservative activists gathered Friday to kick off their Value Voters Summit, they knew they are facing sizable challenges to their political platform: With Democrats in the White House and holding large majorities in Congress, many of social conservatives' top legislative priorities, such as a...
Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009Questions About Leaks Delay Reporter Shield LawA congressional push to enact a federal shield law for journalists is being held up by disagreement with the Justice Department on how to deal with cases that involve leaked national
security information, congressional and media sources say.
Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009Pawlenty gets warm welcome in WashingtonA speech highlighting his socially conservative views and criticizing Obama drew applause at a conservative voters' summit.
Star Tribune Saturday, September 19, 2009Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89WASHINGTON — Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.
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