Word: labour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...revelations that MacKay and his MP wife submitted overlapping claims for their housing. Tory grandee Douglas Hogg announced today that he will stand down at the next election, after billing the public purse for maintenance of his moated Lincolnshire mansion. And there's evidence that all three main parties - Labour, Conservatives (Tory) and Liberal Democrats - could feel the backlash against Westminster's culture of venality at the European and local elections scheduled for June 4. One poll found that 27% of voters were considering switching their support to a small party, with the biggest winners being the Greens, the Eurosceptic...
...This law is a victory for people power," said British Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy, who helped steer the ban through the Parliament, in a statement. "The vast majority of people across the U.K. and Europe are horrified by the cruel clubbing to death of seals...
...father Frank worked as a fitter for English Electric, stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Labour party and managed Stafford Rangers soccer club in his spare time...
...Labour veteran had lost something potentially far more inconvenient than a wallet: the password to his Hotmail account. He is the latest - and highest profile - victim of a widespread "phishing" scam, which starts when the target receives an e-mail warning that the account will be suspended unless he or she revalidates it by clicking a link. This leads to a phony website that demands the account password. The scammers immediately hijack the account and use the address book to send out phishing letters. Often the supposed sender explains that he or she is "really sorry I didn't inform...
...Duckenfield notes that political conservatives such as Sarkozy and Merkel have a significant ally to their cause in British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who, in spite of his nominally leftist Labour Party affiliation, has always been a market liberal. As recently as 2007, Brown opposed European calls for better regulation of hedge funds-investment schemes that had helped made London Europe's finance capital. But on Sunday, Brown wrote in Britain's Observer newspaper that finance markets and banks should be obliged to factor the collective interest of long-term economic gain into their activities, an effort he said should...