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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 7:31PM BST 13 Oct 2008Gordon Brown insisted he would press ahead with the bid to raise the current limit for holding terror suspects from the current level of 28 days to 42 days, despite its overwhelming rejection by 309 votes to 118. Large numbers of Labour peers joined forces with Liberal Democrats, independents and Conservatives...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 9:37PM BST 13 Oct 2008Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reads the statement to the House of CommonsPhoto: PAMinisters will instead draw up a one-line "emergency bill" containing the measure, which could be rushed through Parliament in a matter of hours in the event of a terrorist outrage.But the plan will not now be included in the main...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 12:35AM BST 13 Oct 2008Ofgem, the energy watchdog, that customers who paid for gas and electricity using a pre-payment meter had been unfairly overcharged. Now the National Housing Federation has written to Ofgem demanding that all customers penalised in this way be given an automatic rebate. The ruling followed an eight-month investigation...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Rosa Prince Political Correspondent Last Updated: 6:36PM BST 09 Oct 2008In his first meeting with fellow defence ministers since being appointed to the post in last week's reshuffle, Mr Hutton called on every Nato country to stick to their commitments in Afghanistan no matter how difficult the financial crisis became.He told his colleagues that as security ministers their first responsibility...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 5:34PM BST 09 Oct 2008James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, disclosed that contingency plans were in place to cope with mass unemployment on a scale not seen for more than a decade, and warned that the Government would be unable to save jobs when the credit crisis began to bite in the real economy. His bleak analysis of the...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 12:10PM BST 08 Oct 2008The couple, Schools Secretary and Chief Secretary to the Treasury respectively, had been accused of: "breaking the spirit or even the letter" of House of Commons rules by using their second-home allowance to help pay for a £655,000 house in north London. The perk is worth £24,000-a-year, and most MPs use it to...
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
If you blinked yesterday the chances are you missed the Tory reshuffle. Talk about a damp squib. No squib, more like. Fortunately, the Telegraph's Rosa Prince is on hand to explain: " Mr Cameron had not planned to hold a reshuffle, but was forced to act in response to Gordon Brown's move to reshape the structure of government with the formation of a new department. " Fair enough. But...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 6:59PM BST 07 Oct 2008More than one in seven Parliamentary constituencies has seen rates soar, including four where unemployment has gone up by more than 40 per cent since 2007.Birmingham is the nation's unemployment black spot, home to the top three constituencies in the country in terms of joblessness.In Birmingham Ladywood, which...
