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Ed Mili and Yvette Cooper to vote against the @timloughton ammendment. Labour say Cameorn didnt have the numbers to defeat it alone.
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Tory moderates: admit it, the Progressive Reform party has a ring to it, doesn't...
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Tory moderates: admit it, the Progressive Reform party has a ring to it, doesn't it? You can even stay in coalition with the swivelers...
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John Rentoul | "I don't think he's voting for you." Tory heckle of Nick Herbert (pro-gay marria...
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"I don't think he's voting for you." Tory heckle of Nick Herbert (pro-gay marriage) who says Tim Loughton (anti) is a constituent of his.
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A relationship on the rocks
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He was young. He was handsome. He said what they wanted to hear. It was time, he told them, to show they cared, to move with the times. They needn't worry, though, because he shared their core beliefs...
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Jim Murphy | Always strange in the Commons when Lib Dem MPs speaking build up to a rhetorical...
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Always strange in the Commons when Lib Dem MPs speaking build up to a rhetorical flourish towards a crescendo revealing "I am....a Liberal!"
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Only 1,000 disabled people have found a job through the government's work programme
27 November 2012
New figures published today by the Department of Work and Pensions on the Government's Work Programme show that out of 79,000 Employment and Support Allowance claimants, only 1,000 have been in work for six months.
Richard Hawkes, Chief Executive of disability charity Scope responded to the figures:
"We have known for some time now that the Government's fitness to work test is deeply flawed and is wrongly pushing many disabled people onto the Work Programme.
"Today we learn that only 1.3% of disabled people claiming employment and support allowance have actually found a job through the Work Programme.
"These shocking figures indicate a system that is not working for disabled people.
"Disabled people want to work but face multiple barriers such as a lack of skills and experience, confidence and even negative attitudes from some employers.
"They need tailored and targeted support to find a job and the Work Programme just doesn't offer them this.
"We desperately need the Government to re-think its approach if we want to see more disabled people in work in the future."
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