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In other news… Vince upsets Tories, Liverpool to choose mayor, Radcliffe hexes Clegg, and Hughes settles with Murdoch

Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week…

  • Cable sticks by Les Ebdon as his choice of ‘university tsar’ – the Lib Dem business secretary is opening up a rift in the Coalition:

    Business Secretary Vince Cable is standing by his candidate to head the university fair access watchdog, despite a rejection by MPs. Les Ebdon had been put forward by ministers as their preference for director of the Office for Fair Access. But MPs on a select committee have voted to try to block the appointment. However ministers are not backing

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    • User AvatarRoland 19th Jun - 8:29pm
      @Keith - Actually, I overlooked a couple of important points: Firstly Caron did say 'qualifies' rather than 'receives' - so apologies to Caron if I...
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      I still fail to see the point of the Labour party. It's funded by the Unions but it does not support the working man. It...
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      Go for it. There is all to play for.
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      Come 2015 we will need 2 parallel campaigns, for seats in the 75 Targets & for votes everywhere else. The campaigns will need very different...
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      @ Roland. What are the savings for not paying WFA until 66? More than the figure you quote probably. Again, the savings made from delaying...
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      Eddie Sammon "I don’t think the party has gone right wing," Are you serious? As someone else pointed out a while ago on LDV, when...
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