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The Government has suffered a defeat as it tries to push the controversial Health & Social Care Bill through the Lords. Peers voted by 244-240 in favour of an amendment from Lord Patel creating a duty for the Health Secretary to promote a health service that deals with "mental and physical illness", rather then the original dra... Read On

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News PoliticsHome - Lord Carlile: We need to send out a message of support
News The Independent - Why Health Bill's biggest critic has a lot to lose from reforms
News Press Association - Calls for health reforms to be axed
House of Commons PoliticsHome - PMQs sketch: top-down reorganisation looming for Lansley?
House of Commons PoliticsHome - House of Commons - Backbenchers write-up
House of Commons PoliticsHome - Cameron defends Andrew Lansley at PMQs
Press Release PoliticsHome - Liz Kendall: The government has wasted 18 months on reorgansing the NHS
On air PoliticsHome - Dr. Peter Carter: There is a lack of political will for the NHS reforms
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- Minister to visit Jordan
Home Office Minister James Brokenshire is to visit Jordan to discuss the deportation of radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada. Earlier David Cameron said the Government was doing "everything it can" to... Read On
- News The Daily Mail - Hate preacher Hamza could be set free after bail ruling on fanatic Abu Qatada
- News The Daily Telegraph - Unfair extradition laws
- Opinion Simon Jenkins - Deport Abu Qatada: or if not, give him the law's full protection
- Blog ToryDiary - The ECHR: Cameron is trapped in a bind which he himself has approved
- On air PoliticsHome - Keith Vaz: We should accept Jordan's assurances
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- Pressure grows on Teather
Pressure grew on Children's Minister Sarah Teather to support the Government's welfare reforms this afternoon after it emerged she had missed crucial Commons votes last week. Tory backbencher Peter B... Read On
- News The Daily Mail - Lib Dem children's minister faces calls for the sack after she fails to back welfare reforms
- News The Sun - Hell for Teather
- Twitter James Chapman - EXC Stakes raised over Sarah Teather's failure to back welfare reform. No10 source: 'If she speaks o...
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- PM hits out at Russia
David Cameron has issued a strong rebuke to the Russian government over their veto of the UN resolution on Syria. Responding to a question from Sir Menzies Campbell, Mr Cameron said that the Russian... Read On
- News The Guardian - Syrian siege of Homs is genocidal, say trapped residents
- News Metro - Syria: Families executed in Homs siege as Assad offer rejected
- Opinion (£) Tony Brenton - Putin’s fears are not for Assad but for himself
- Blog The Coffee House - Brits sceptical of Syria intervention
- On air PoliticsHome - Alistair Burt: Syrian regime is a doomed one
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- IPSA to freeze MPs' pay
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has ruled that Members of Parliament will have their pay frozen for 2012/13. This will be the second year running that MPs will have their salaries f... Read On
- News The Guardian - MPs' pay frozen at £65,738 for a second year
- News BBC - Pay freeze for MPs will continue
- Twitter Alex Forrest - PM has welcomed decision by IPSA to freeze MPs' pay for another year.
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MPs in the news today

David Cameron MP

Andrew Lansley MP

Ed Miliband MP

Yvette Cooper MP

Denis MacShane MP

William Hague MP

Sarah Teather MP

Theresa May MP

Simon Burns MP

Peter Bone MP

Jim Murphy MP

Steve Baker MP

Diana Johnson MP

Alistair Burt MP

Penny Mordaunt MP

Geraint Davies MP

Ken Clarke MP

Andy Burnham MP

Julian Lewis MP

Robert Wilson MP

Liam Byrne MP

James Brokenshire MP

Liz Kendall MP

Barbara Keeley MP

Sir Menzies Campbell MP

Chris Bryant MP

Jamie Reed MP

Paul Flynn MP

Simon Hughes MP

Ann McKechin MP

Hugh Bayley MP

Michael Fabricant MP

Oliver Letwin MP

Alun Michael MP

Andrew Stephenson MP

Martin Vickers MP

Nadhim Zahawi MP

Chris Kelly MP

Caroline Dinenage MP

David Rutley MP

Gordon Birtwhistle MP

Mike Weatherley MP

Matthew Hancock MP

Rory Stewart MP

Julian Smith MP

Andy Slaughter MP

George Hollingbery MP

Mary Glindon MP

Nigel Adams MP

Katy Clark MP

Greg Hands MP

Keith Vaz MP

Nick Clegg MP

Jo Swinson MP

Harriet Harman MP

John Whittingdale MP

Norman Lamb MP

Elfyn Llwyd MP

Nick Herbert MP

Mark Hendrick MP

Chris Huhne MP

Stephen Dorrell MP

David Amess MP

Andrew Miller MP

Vince Cable MP

Jonathan Reynolds MP

Dominic Grieve MP

Nick de Bois MP

Jim Sheridan MP

Douglas Carswell MP

Tessa Munt MP

Anne McIntosh MP

Grant Shapps MP

Christopher Pincher MP

Margot James MP

Brandon Lewis MP

Alison Seabeck MP

Tim Farron MP

John Spellar MP

Tom Watson MP

Ed Davey MP

John Redwood MP

Mark Durkan MP

David Hanson MP

Sadiq Khan MP

Jeremy Corbyn MP

Angie Bray MP

Meg Munn MP

Rob Flello MP

Julian Huppert MP

Anne Milton MP

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No 10 denies Falklands militarisation

Downing Street has denied Argentinian claims Britain is militarising in the South Atlantic. Argentina had made clear it... Read On

MPs criticise fragmented care system

MPs have criticised the social care system in the UK for being fragmented, and have warned people are “passed like a par... Read On

Hughes takes £45k settlement

Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes has this morning agreed a £45,000 plus costs settlement with News International for the... Read On

Hester: Bonus would have damaged RBS

RBS boss Stephen Hester has revealed he considered quitting amid the furore over his bonus. Mr Hester admitted that 'h... Read On

MPs: Libya intervention could be 'one-off' due to cuts

An influential committee of MPs has warned that the UK’s intervention in Libya could be a “one-off” due to questions ove... Read On

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Local and Regional

Liverpool scrap mayor referendum

Transport

Councils threaten HS2 legal action

Schools, education & training

Cable Offa choice faces veto

Culture, media & sport

Evidence of 'Nudge' unit success

Domestic Affairs

Police to launch 'cyber crime' centres

Party Politics & Reform

Tory backbenchers warned over letters

Foreign affairs & defence

Santorum wins in Minnesota

Economy & Employment

DWP admits benefit backlog

TUC warning over pension reform

Childcare loan scheme proposed

Labour's banker?

Is this the day that Labour decides bankers aren't such a bad thing after all? First we had a LabourUncut blog praising financial services, now it looks like Labo... Read on

Blink-182 star takes in PMQs

Mark Hoppus, bassist and vocalist for pop punk band Blink-182, was in Parliament today as ... Read on

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Liz Kendall argues the proposed reform to the NHS won't help as they're not the reforms that are needed.

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Can Lib Dems still 'win locally'?

A voter exodus, combined with boundary changes, could spell disaster for Liberal Democrat ...

John Whittingdale: Cameras in court would be a positive move

Writing for Central Lobby, John Whittingdale says opening the doors of the courts to TV cameras will bring the UK in line with other jurisdictions around the world and be a "positive move for open justice and transparency".