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The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link)

1. Conservatives are winning on welfare reform, says Labour poll expert
2. David Cameron accused of exaggerating tax break benefits for married couples. PM faces calls to issue correction after wrongly saying tax break for married couples would benefit every basic rate taxpayer

3. Labour keeps digging on marriage tax breaks

4. PMQs verdict: Miliband seized the agenda, Cameron reached for the lies and smears
5. Middle-class people are the benefit fraudsters it’s OK to like. So 165,000 high-earning parents claiming child benefit have not yet signed up for self-assessment. Yet they don’t get demonised
6. Fuel poverty is getting worse. Can Ed Miliband save the day?
7. BBC austerity survey: why the public is wrong this time
8. Alex Salmond spent £20,000 keeping secret non-existent EU legal advice. 

   Alex Salmond spent almost £20,000 of taxpayers’ money to keep secret legal advice about an independent Scotland’s EU status that never even existed, it has emerged.

9. Streeter shines at ’22 Deputy Speaker hustings
10. Ex-ministers Dawn Butler and Tony McNulty in fight for Labour seat in Brent Central
11. SeanT sits on the fence and has written a very even-handed, possibly over-cautious assessment of the last Labour government.
12. 5 Myths about Labour’s reshuffle
13. Ming Campbell announces he’s to retire as MP in 2015
14. Fresh rail fares blow for commuters
15. Badgers for Goalposts?  “The badgers moved the goalposts”
16. In Full: Nick Clegg’s speech on Europe: Richer, stronger, safer, greener
17. Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to ‘detect’ gay people and stop them from entering the country
18. England and Arsenal’s Jack Wilshire says ‘Keep England for the English’
19. Whilst Kevin Pietersen adds his contribution to Wilshire’s observations.
20. Jacob Rees-Mogg says Adam Afriyie isn’t helping the Eurosceptic cause. He should pipe down
21. Neil Kinnock interview: Labour must “absolutely not” support an EU referendum
22. Labour “making decision” over whether to back HS2 next spring
23. Has Clegg sent Norman Baker to stop the return of the Snooper’s Charter?
24. The real scandal of Ralph Miliband’s politics
25. The Sunday Sports prints the truth about Ralph Miliband that no other papers dare to publishes 

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