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James Blitz in London
– Dec 14, 7:33 AM
Boris Johnson has promised to repay the trust of traditional Labour voters in the north-east of England who backed the Conservatives for the first time at Thursday's general election, declaring they had “changed the political…
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James Kanagasooriam
– Dec 14, 2:00 AM
It started with my bedspread as a child. My seventh birthday present from an eccentric relative was a duvet cover of a detailed Office for National Statistics map of the UK. Every childhood evening was devoted to poring over the names of towns I…
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Paula Surridge
– Dec 14, 10:00 AM
Parts of Labour's heartlands had been threatening to turn blue for some time. But on Thursday night that threat became a reality. Seat after seat that Labour had held throughout the postwar period fell to the Conservatives. At the start of the…
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Martin Arnold in Frankfurt
– Dec 14, 9:43 AM
The head of Germany's central bank has added his weight to growing pressure for the country's government to increase public investment and warned its commitment to a balanced federal budget should not become “a fetish”. The comments…
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Heba Saleh in Algiers
– Dec 14, 9:09 AM
Thousands of demonstrators poured into central Algiers on Friday — as they have done every weekend since Algeria's pro-democracy movement began 10 months ago. The difference this time was that Algeria's electoral commission had announced…
