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• US says it warned France of Russian cyber attacks

  09-05-2017 23:54
  NSA head says Washington helping build defences before German and UK elections
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Promises To Halt Tory School Cuts And Reduce Class Sizes In £20bn Education Manifesto

  09-05-2017 23:31
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to halt Tory cuts to school budgets and reduce class sizes for under-8s in a radical £20bn education plan.
  In another bold pitch to voters in the 2017 general election campaign, Corbyn will promise a Labour government would reverse planned tax breaks for big business and instead spend the money on a new National Education Service for young and old.
  Maintenance grants for students would be restored and a new scheme for free, lifelong skills training would be introdu
  
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• Labour pledges £6bn annual boost to school budgets

  09-05-2017 23:30
  
  Jeremy Corbyn to unveil plans to raise corporation tax to relieve pressure on school funding, while also creating a National Education ServiceA Labour government would raise corporate taxes to fund a £6bn-a-year boost to schools budgets by the end of the next parliament and create a National Education Service to equip Britain’s workers for the post-Brexit economy, the party will announce.After Jeremy Corbyn launched Labour’s campaign with a rousing speech to activists in Manche
  
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• Theresa May Said Someone Told Her 'Your Shoes Got Me In To Politics' And People Are Deeply Unconvinced

  09-05-2017 22:57
  
  Theresa May has appeared on the BBC’s The One Show with her husband Philip for a soft-focus interview presumably designed to show another side to the hard-headed Prime Minister.
  Few would have been expecting anything other than a warm bath of an interview since the post-commute show is not Newsnight and hosts Matt Baker and Alex Jones are not a double-headed Jeremy Paxman.
  Yet the Tory leader probably couldn’t believe her luck when she was effectively asked to provide a cute ane
  
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• May’s manifesto chief held talks with former Miliband aide

  09-05-2017 22:30
  Maurice Glasman Number 10 meeting underscores Tory wooing of Labour vote
  
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• Supreme leader produces pure TV Valium on The One Show | John Crace

  09-05-2017 22:27
  
  Theresa and Philip May take a seat on the green sofa to share ‘strong and stable’ anecdotes about life on the home frontBehind every successful supreme leader there’s a very rich successful investment banker. Or, for their joint appearance on The One Show, beside her. Philip looked relatively happy to be on the sofa chatting to Matt Baker and Alex Jones. Theresa could hardly have appeared more awkward if she tried.Baker broke the ice with a gentle loosener. How hard was it bein
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn hoping for Bernie Sanders election endorsement

  09-05-2017 22:00
  
  Leader says he thinks US senator, whose team is helping Labour, will publicly back party during UK visit before polling day
  Jeremy Corbyn has said he is hoping for a last-minute endorsement from the US political maverick Bernie Sanders, whose campaign set the country’s presidential election alight in spite of the odds against him. The unsuccessful challenger for the Democratic nomination in the US is due in the UK a few days before the general election on 8 June, and Momentum activists are
  
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• The other PM joins ‘Team Theresa’ on BBC couch

  09-05-2017 21:49
  Husband Philip puts on ‘s***** and s*****’ performance in campaign debut
  
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• General election: May's husband says she wanted to be PM from shadow cabinet days – as it happened

  09-05-2017 21:40
  
  All the day’s action live, as Labour launches its official campaign and Theresa May faces backlash over pledge to cap energy pricesThe Snap: sign up for our daily election email – and read today’s
  Corbyn’s speech at Labour campaign launch - VerdictTheresa May’s York Q&A - SummaryMay refuses to rule out national insurance increaseAfternoon summary 8.40pm BSTThat’s all from Politics Live for today - here’s Tuesday’s highlights in brief: 8.23pm BS
  
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• May's husband reveals she wanted to be PM while in shadow cabinet – video

  09-05-2017 21:31
  
  Theresa May and her husband, Philip, have given an interview on the BBC’s The One Show in which he revealed that she had thought about being prime minister while in the shadow cabinet. Philip May also talked about his role as husband of the prime minister Theresa May had wanted to be prime minister for years, husband saysPhilip May: the prime minister’s husband steps out of the shadowsContinue reading...
  
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• Theresa May had wanted to be prime minister for years, husband says

  09-05-2017 21:27
  
  Philip May reveals wife’s ambitions in informal joint TV interview where he also spoke of their ‘love at first sight’
  Theresa May’s husband has let slip that she had wanted to be prime minister for more than a decade, since she was an established member of the shadow cabinet.Philip May made the admission during a joint interview with his wife on BBC1’s The One Show, in which the pair talked about their life together. Continue reading...
  
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• General election: Theresa May's husband says she wanted to be PM from shadow cabinet days – politics live

  09-05-2017 21:23
  
  All the day’s action live, as Labour launches its official campaign and Theresa May faces backlash over pledge to cap energy pricesThe Snap: sign up for our daily election email – and read today’s
  Corbyn’s speech at Labour campaign launch - VerdictTheresa May’s York Q&A - SummaryMay refuses to rule out national insurance increaseAfternoon summary 8.23pm BSTTrying to appear less robotic is not the only challenge the prime minister had had today. She’s been
  
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• Theresa May Tells The One Show There Are 'Boy And Girl' Jobs At Home

  09-05-2017 21:19
  
  Theresa May has revealed she thinks there are ‘boy jobs and girl jobs’ at home and that husband Philip is in sole charge of taking the bins out as the couple appeared on BBC’s The One Show.
  Philip also let slip his wife harboured ambitions to be PM for more than seven years - when she was a member of the shadow cabinet. 
  In an interview aimed at showcasing the ‘personal’ side of May - who has been being ‘robotic’ at various points during her genera
  
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• The Guardian view on political credibility: indispensable | Editorial

  09-05-2017 20:55
  
  Theresa May has established herself in many voters’ minds as a believable leader and the Labour leader has not. Unless Jeremy Corbyn can change that dramatically in the next month, his party will sufferCredibility is one of those indispensable political qualities that barely rates a mention when it is there. Yet when it is missing, nothing else matters as much. For many voters, Theresa May is established both as a credible leader, and a credible figure of the centre-right. That gives
  
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• What we can learn from the French election | Letters

  09-05-2017 20:52
  
  Readers respond to the election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France and reflect on what British voters can glean from his victoryTo read your depressing editorial (8 May) and the surprisingly negative piece by your normally brilliant columnist Timothy Garton Ash (This is only a reprieve, 8 May), one would have thought Emmanuel Macron had actually lost the French presidential election instead of winning by a near-record margin. As for Timothy’s three points on “the triple espres
  
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• Steve Bell on foxhunting and the general election – cartoon

  09-05-2017 20:48
  
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• Tory claims over energy price cap are just hot air | Nils Pratley

  09-05-2017 20:46
  
  Ministers cite government-backed report to back plan – but it actually said policy could lead to ‘worse outcomes for customers’The most irritating part of Theresa May’s presentation of her price cap on energy bills is not her silly pretence that her policy, and Ed Miliband’s, are chalk and cheese.Under a microscope, it’s true one can tell the two apart. The Tory version could see prices increase sometimes under regulator Ofgem’s six-monthly reviews; and,
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Jokes BBC's Laura Kuenssberg Will In Her 'Heart Of Hearts' Like Some Of Labour's Manifesto

  09-05-2017 20:30
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has joked to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that in her “heart of hearts” she will like some of Labour’s manifesto policies.
  The Labour leader made his remarks after the TV political editor said his message so far “hasn’t cut it with ordinary voters”.
  He shot back that his new party manifesto policies could even appeal to Kuenssberg when they are revealed in full next week:
  “I can’t ask you what your own opinions are but I’m s
  
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• Austerity, inequality and debt still a threat | Letters

  09-05-2017 20:22
  
  Guardian readers share their thoughts on the state of the economy
  Larry Elliott’s attack on economic policy (Falling wages show the economy is still struggling, 8 May) does not go far enough. Real GDP per head just crept back in 2015 to the level it was in 2007. Given that productive resources did not fall in that period, this represents a complete waste. It is worse than that. Real GDP per head shows a very strong trend going back decades.If we take that trend line as a measure of pr
  
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• Britain need not slam its doors to limit migration

  09-05-2017 19:53
  May’s rigidity on immigrationresolve to slash numbers poses risks to the country’s economy
  
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• Liverpool mayor says Labour party is 'not always a meritocracy'

  09-05-2017 19:50
  
  Joe Anderson speaks out after losing to Len McCluskey adviser in race to be candidate for safe Labour seat of Liverpool WaltonLabour’s longstanding mayor of Liverpool complained that the party is “not always a meritocracy” after he was defeated in the race to be selected as the candidate for a safe seat in the city.Joe Anderson spoke out after he lost out to Dan Carden, a relatively unknown adviser to Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, for the party’s nominati
  
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• UK Election Countdown: a campaign where nothing matters

  09-05-2017 19:45
  30 days to go: the politics of perception
  
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• Theresa May offers free vote on fox hunting ban

  09-05-2017 19:21
  PM drops one of Britain’s most emotive political issues into election
  
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• Fresh Labour Row Breaks Out As Len McCluskey Aide Dan Carden Selected As Liverpool Walton Candidate

  09-05-2017 19:16
  
  A bitter Labour row has broken out after an aide to Unite chief Len McCluskey was selected for one of the party’s safest Parliamentary seats in the country.
  Dan Carden, who works for the general secretary of Britain’s biggest trade union, was chosen as the candidate for Liverpool Walton for the general election on June 8.
  The constituency, which has a massive 27,000 Labour majority, was held by Jeremy Corbyn aide Steve Rotheram until he decided to step aside after winning Liverpool&
  
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• Corbyn fails to shut down questions on Brexit or his future

  09-05-2017 19:11
  Warm reception for leader launching Labour’s official campaign
  
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• Confusing tariffs deter UK energy customers from switching

  09-05-2017 19:02
  Shopping around among suppliers for better deal rare in retail market
  
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• Tory MPs plot to water down Theresa May's energy price cap pledge

  09-05-2017 19:00
  
  PM refuses to confirm bills will definitely go down, as analysts say gas and electricity prices could rise despite capTheresa May will face a battle within her own party as well as with the energy companies if she decides to go ahead with a cap on gas and electricity prices. A number of Tory MPs favouring free market policies, including some at senior ministerial level, feel the plan is far too interventionist for a Conservative government, and are aiming to water down the proposal in the next p
  
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• Tactical voting can turn UK election, claims Canada poll expert

  09-05-2017 18:19
  Man credited with helping to elect Justin Trudeau is advising Gina Miller
  
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• Theresa May Wants To Bring Back Fox Hunting And Promises A Free Vote For MPs

  09-05-2017 18:10
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed she has “always been in favour” of fox hunting and will push ahead with plans for a free vote in Parliament if she wins the General Election.
  The Tory leader’s announcement could see the 2004 Hunting Ban lifted and the bloodsport leagalised in England and Wales.
  Speaking in Leeds on Tuesday, May said: “This is a situation on which individuals will have one view or the other, either pro or against.
  “As it happens, personally I
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: Theresa May's one-woman war on Brussels

  09-05-2017 17:06
  
  PM accuses EU of meddling in general election while Emmanuel Macron’s victory in French presidential poll causes reliefWelcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing, a summary of developments as the UK gallops towards the EU door marked “exit”. If you’d like to receive it as a weekly early morning email, please sign up here.
  You can listen to our latest Brexit Means … podcast, updated every Wednesday, here. And with the general election under way in the UK
  
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• 'Jeremy Corbyn Is Going To Help Us Out' Factory Worker Tells Theresa May Labour Is Right On Wage Rises

  09-05-2017 16:47
  
  Today Theresa May finally got to speak to some real people.... It was not all gravy. pic.twitter.com/vk41ifcdGM— #EL4C (@EL4JC) May 9, 2017
  A factory worker today challenged the Prime Minister to match Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to raise the minimum wage to £10-a-hour.
  Theresa May was asked by the worker in Leeds to echo the Labour leader’s policy in order to help working parents afford childcare.
  The man told the Tory leader that for many parents there was simply no point r
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn’s stubbornness could mark the end of Labour

  09-05-2017 16:31
  The opposition leader does not care about winning elections, writes Sebastian Payne
  
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• Will Corbyn remain Labour leader come what may? First, he must match Milliband's vote share

  09-05-2017 16:12
  
  Labour strategists believe repeat of 2015 election’s 30.4% support will be enough to keep leader in post – but without working-class voters even this looks unachievableElection live blog: Labour launches official campaignJeremy Corbyn has declared his intention to remain as Labour leader whatever the outcome of the 8 June general election. “I was elected leader of this party and I’ll stay leader of this party,” he told BuzzFeed News on Monday.His supporters have poi
  
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• Can Corbyn match Miliband's vote share and cling on to Labour leadership?

  09-05-2017 16:12
  
  Labour strategists believe repeat of 2015 election’s 30.4% support will be enough to keep leader in post – but without working-class voters even this looks unachievableElection live blog: Labour launches official campaignJeremy Corbyn has declared his intention to remain as Labour leader whatever the outcome of the 8 June general election. “I was elected leader of this party and I’ll stay leader of this party,” he told BuzzFeed News on Monday.His supporters have poi
  
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• General election: Corbyn repeatedly refuses to say UK certain to leave EU if Labour wins – politics live

  09-05-2017 16:04
  
  All the day’s action live, as Labour launches its official campaign and Theresa May faces backlash over pledge to cap energy pricesTory manifesto to promise price cap on energy billsCorbyn pins Labour’s election hopes on housing reformThe Snap: sign up for our daily election email – and read today’s
  Corbyn’s speech at Labour campaign launch - VerdictTheresa May’s York Q&A - SummaryMay refuses to rule out national insurance increase 3.04pm BSTHere is the re
  
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• Philip May: the prime minister's husband steps out of the shadows

  09-05-2017 16:01
  
  May will give his first TV interview alongside his wife on The One Show but who is the man the PM relies on for her most critical decisions?General election – latest updatesThe perfect prime ministerial consort, Denis Thatcher is once said to have remarked, is someone who is “always present, never there”. It is a maxim to which Philip May, Thatcher’s sole successor as a male spouse in Downing Street, has been happy to observe since his wife, Theresa, became prime minister
  
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• Tim Farron takes a ride in a search-and-rescue hovercraft – video

  09-05-2017 15:44
  
  While campaigning in the south-west, the leader of the Liberal Democrats heads for Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, and boards a hovercraftGeneral election 2017 – live updatesContinue reading...
  
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• Have you received any general election leaflets? Share your photos

  09-05-2017 15:29
  
  With campaigning officially underway, we would like to see what kind of messages your local candidates are sending outWe want to see how your local candidates are attempting to win your vote via general election leaflets, letters and other printed material.
  From “strong and stable” to “for the many not the few”, you may be familiar with some of the slogans of this year’s general election. But we’re interested to see how your local parliamentary candidates are
  
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• New York Times offers 'Brexit means Brexit' guided tour of London

  09-05-2017 15:21
  
  Six-day, $5,995pp trip offers US tourists a chance to ‘examine the historic implications of a historic vote’For the global adventurer who thinks they have seen it all, the New York Times has discovered a challenging new frontier: British politics.At $5,995 (£4,650) per person, the six-day guided tour called “Brexit means Brexit!” is not for the mass market but offers select groups of American tourists the chance to “examine the historic implications of a histo
  
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• Corbyn promises a reckoning for people ‘ripping off’ Britain

  09-05-2017 15:10
  Labour leader steps up firebrand rhetoric as he launches election campaign
  
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• Tim Farron Decided To Get In A Hovercraft And Go Really Fast Down A Beach

  09-05-2017 15:07
  
  Tim Farron has provided some of the most camera-friendly campaign moments of the general election so far.
  And today did not disappoint.
  On a visit to Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, the Lib Dem leader jumped into a search and rescue hovercraft - and it went quite fast.
  Farron is on a tour of the South West, the former Lib Dem heartland, and is hoping to turn back the tide of Tory blue that swept his party away in 2015.
  The hovercraft might have been a metaphor about rising above the Theresa May ver
  
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• The New York Times Brexit Tours Of Britain - Here's How To Do It Properly

  09-05-2017 14:54
  
  The New York Times has announced a $6,000 tour package showing the highlights of Brexit Britain.
  In order to get a flavour of the UK in these tumultuous times, attendees will spend six days visiting London and... well, just London. Everyman highlights include a trip to the Supreme Court, lunch in a pub, afternoon tea and a Q&A with a legal expert.
  Obviously the Americans can’t be trusted to get this right so HuffPost UK has helpfully corrected their itinerary. The 2016 refere
  
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• Who Is Philip May? Theresa May's Husband And Capital Group Exec To Appear On The One Show Tonight

  09-05-2017 14:50
  
  Theresa May and her husband Philip are set to appear in their first ever joint broadcast interview on BBC One’s The One Show on Tuesday evening.
  Whilst the Prime Minister has been unable to avoid the spotlight since taking office last year her spouse has kept a low profile, quietly continuing with his career in finance.Who is Philip May?
  May was born in 1957 in Norwich, the son of a sales rep and a French teacher.
  The pair met while studying at the University of Oxford - he at Lincoln Coll
  
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• Who Is Philip May? Theresa May's Husband And Capital Group Exec On The One Show Tonight

  09-05-2017 14:50
  
  Theresa May and her husband Philip are set to appear in their first ever joint broadcast interview on BBC One’s The One Show on Tuesday evening.
  Whilst the Prime Minister has been unable to avoid the spotlight since taking office last year her spouse has kept a low profile, quietly continuing with his career in finance.Who is Philip May?
  May was born in 1957 in Norwich, the son of a sales rep and a French teacher.
  The pair met while studying at the University of Oxford - he at Lincoln Coll
  
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• Progressive Alliance Hopes Dashed After Greens Accuse Labour And Lib Dems Of 'Betrayal'

  09-05-2017 14:50
  
  The Green Party has effectively killed off the prospect of a progressive alliance at the General Election, accusing the major parties it hoped to partner with of “betraying” voters. 
  Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Greens, attacked Labour and the Liberal Democrats for refusing to stand candidates down in mutually beneficial constituencies - “defying their own members on the ground”. 
  And she tackled Jeremy Corbyn’s party for expelling three long-serving
  
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• Broadchurch actor introduces Jeremy Corbyn at Labour campaign launch – video

  09-05-2017 14:24
  
  Actor Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street and appeared in the third series of Broadchurch, introduces Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour party’s election campaign launch in Manchester, saying: ‘He gives a toss about people.’ Corbyn used his speech to highlight the contrast between ordinary people and those on the Sunday Times rich listCorbyn says Labour will transform Britain as he launches election campaignContinue reading...
  
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• Can Theresa May dent EU unity?

  09-05-2017 14:23
  Bloc is naturally wary about any attempts by UK to divide Europe
  
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• Lib Dems to provide free sanitary towels at school to fight 'period poverty'

  09-05-2017 14:15
  
  Party says proposal would end hidden problem where teenage girls miss school when they cannot afford pads or tamponsGirls would be provided with free sanitary products in schools under a Liberal Democrat initiative that the party has said would end the hidden problem of “period poverty” – where teenagers miss school because they cannot afford pads or tampons. The party said it would fund the scheme so school nurses could keep a large stock of sanitary products for girls who nee
  
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• The myth of a global liberal elite hides the reality of Brexit

  09-05-2017 14:02
  
  In the battle between the Anywheres and Somewheres, the Somewheres have won
  
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• First Dog on the Moon's big day at the 2017 budget

  09-05-2017 13:50
  
  Is it mean and tricky? Yes it is. It gives Scomo a lot of smoke and mirrors to work with – and drug-testing welfare recipients is pretty coldIt is always nice to get back to Parliament House – I know some very nice people who work here and it always lovely to catch up. And because it was budget day I am issued with an “unescorted pass” at the front desk!We used to get those all the time, but then Tony Abbott changed it so irregular visitors to parliament ALWAYS HAD TO HAV
  
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