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		<title>Five of the top fifty Labour achievements since 1997 &#8211; III</title>
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900,000 pensioners lifted out of poverty
500,000 children lifted out of relative poverty and measures already in train will lift a further 500,000 children out of poverty
free TV licences for over-75s
the New Deal has helped over 2 million people into work
over 3 million Child Trust Funds have been started

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		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/five-of-the-top-fifty-labour-achievements-since-1997-iii/</link>
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		<title>How David Cameron gets that smart casual look just so &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart casual requires constant effort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknh6kkrJ80&#38;feature=youtube_gdata
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		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/how-david-cameron-gets-that-smart-casual-look-just-so/</link>
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		<title>Five of the top fifty Labour achievements since 1997 &#8211; II</title>
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Over three quarters of GP practices now offer extended opening hours for at least one evening or weekend session a week
All prescriptions are now free for people being treated for cancer or the effects of cancer, and teenage girls are offered a vaccination against cervical cancer
The NHS can now guarantee that you will see a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/five-of-the-top-fifty-labour-achievements-since-1997-ii/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Nothing justifies torture&#8221; says former head of MI5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former Dame Eliza and Director-General of the Security Service (MI5), gave the Mile End lecture in the House of Lords a few hours ago.  Her topic was &#8220;Reflections on Intelligence&#8221; and I understand that the text of this will shortly be available on the Parliamentary web-site.
In the Q&#38;A after the lecture one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/nothing-justifies-torture-says-former-head-of-mi5/</link>
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		<title>Five of the top fifty Labour achievements since 1997 &#8211; I</title>
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The National Minimum Wage &#8211; uprated annually &#8211; brenefiting at least a million people per year
The shortest waiting times since NHS records began; whatever your condition, you will not have to wait more than 18 weeks from GP referral to the start of hospital treatment
Three million more operations carried out each year than in 1997, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/five-of-the-top-fifty-labour-achievements-since-1997-i/</link>
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		<title>Admiral West speaks out about the cyber-threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Admiral Lord Alan West, the Security Minister, has spoken out today about the cyber-threat that Britain faces.  I am pleased that he has tackled the subject so directly.  Too many businesses and too much of Government have been complacent about what has been happening for years.
When I first started raising the problem in the House [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/admiral-west-speaks-out-about-the-cyber-threat/</link>
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		<title>Liam Fox plays politics with UK troops in Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liam Fox&#8217;s office has been in touch with journalists complaining about Gordon Brown&#8217;s visit to British troops.  In an interesting insight into the Tory mindset the troops are described as &#8220;political props&#8221;.
It is the most cynical of political games to suggest that it is wrong for the Prime Minister to visit now.  Even Liam Fox [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/liam-fox-plays-politics-with-uk-troops-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>Yet more &#8220;deniability&#8221; in the Tory campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian this morning produces new evidence of the Conservative Party organisation using surrogates and deniability.  Apparently, a shadowy organisation, called the Young Britons&#8217; Foundation has trained 2,500 Conservative activists including eleven Parliamentary candidates.  The &#8220;training&#8221; has involved exercises with assault rifles on a shooting range in Virginia and the organisation&#8217;s leader has called for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/yet-more-deniability-in-the-tory-campaign/</link>
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		<title>The making of Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor, Dog-Catcher-in-Chief, and Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The DCiC*, Deputy Mayor Kit Malthouse AM, has in a moment of emotional transparency told the readers of  the March issue of The Job (the Metropolitan Police in-house magazine for police officers) about his formative influences.  Lauding the Volunteer Police Cadets scheme and the Scouts Association, he says:
&#8220;It is exactly these types of organisations that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/the-making-of-kit-malthouse-deputy-mayor-dog-catcher-in-chief-and-chair-of-the-metropolitan-police-authority/</link>
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		<title>Fame at last &#8211; my flippancy in the House of Lords reaches the University of Alabama&#8217;s School of Library and Information Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is nice to know that debates and questions in the House of Lords have an impact in the outside world.  In June 2005, I asked the following question in the House of Lords:
&#8220;Whether the time spent preparing the e-Government Unit&#8217;s document, Tomatoes are not the only fruit: a rough guide to taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/fame-at-last-my-flippancy-in-the-house-of-lords-reaches-the-university-of-alabamas-school-of-library-and-information-studies/</link>
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