Welcome to the Sunday outing for The Voice’s near-daily Daily View series. As it’s a Sunday, today it comes with a special bonus singing unhappy customer.
2 Big Stories
Afghanistan: troops numbers to go up or down?
The papers are agreed that, following the tragic and symbolic news of the number of British military deaths in Afghanistan now exceeding those in Iraq, Afghanistan is one of the major news stories of the day.
But there’s rather less agreement on what they think the Government is going to do.
Either “Thousands more troops could be sent to Afghanistan within months” (Observer) or “Ministers are secretly planning to cut the number of British troops in Afghanistan” (Independent). All clear I trust.
Rebel Conservative MPs plan to refer Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s chief spin doctor, to the party’s sleaze watchdog over his role in the illegal phone hacking row.
Some Tory backbenchers believe Cameron took an excessively tough stance on the expenses scandal. Now they hope to exploit the row over Coulson, the former News of the World editor who resigned when the paper was caught hacking into royal aides’ phones.
Yesterday, Lord Tebbit lent his voice to the Tory rebels. “Cameron has talked a lot about ‘detoxifying’ the Conservative brand,” he said. “Perhaps he should now think about a ‘detoxification’ of his own office.”
Nich Starling continues his close analysis of the Conservative campaign in Norwich North, this time highlighting the inconsistency between what their by-election leaflets say and how they’ve voted locally
Sunday Bonus
One man gets his revenge on United Airlines for bad customer service through the medium of song:
Ruth Bright Thanks Michael. Apropos your point about private equity firms. At the other end of scale, smaller operators in the sector (with a turnover of under 10.2 million...
Hywel "Let’s meet the constituency link full on. Most people now don’t have an MP of their political persuasion, so effectively there’s no link anyway. "
Ind...
Mark Inskip Chris Berry seems to have either misunderstood or not properly listened to what Andy Burnham said.
He said the State Pension "will hold its value relative to...
David Allen Governments have repeatedly tried and failed to solve the problem of unpredictable but potentially very high late-life social care costs. Burnham has come up w...
tony/Cumbria I too am saddened that Christine will not be fighting the next general election. The way she was treated by the leadership in England and now, Scotland, I am no...
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Hywel 
Mark Inskip 
David Allen 
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