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Research Shows Big Boost For Out Of School Hours Learning Activities
Over two thirds of schools have increased the provision of out of school hours learning activities in the last two years according to research published today by Schools Minister Jacqui Smith.
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Votes and Taxes
This week's U-turn by the Conservatives on tax has at last opened up a clear policy gap between the parties on one of the central issues in any election: the Tories are now committed to reducing the tax burden, even if this means cuts in public spending, while Labour will pursue its public spending plans, even if this means increasing taxes. This, of course, now frees the Tories for an all-out attack on tax increases under Labour without being scuppered by the reply that the figures in their own alternative do not add up.
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Can't Surf, Won't Surf
Which? Online's 2000 Annual Internet Survey Reports That 15 Million Britons Say They Won't be Getting On The Internet
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Winning the Referendum
If Tony Blair wants to win endorsement in a referendum for taking Britain into the single European Currency, he is going to have to change a lot of people's minds. It is still possible, but attitudes against the Euro are hardening and the hurdle is becoming steadily higher. Three recent MORI surveys (for The Times, the News of the World and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney) have explored the scale of the task facing him, and some of the factors that will work for and against him.
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The Bubble Bursts
This month's sharp drop in the government's and Tony Blair's own approval ratings [June's Times poll] restores the political scene in Britain to what we generally assume to be its normal state, after more than three years when it seemed as if the laws of gravity had been suspended. For most of the half-century in which opinion polls have been measuring the state of the parties and ratings of the governments and their leaders, it has been a constant that governments are unpopular; for the first time, Mr Blair's ratings are beginning to be comparable to those of his predecessors.
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Revealed - Britain's Happy Homeowners
Whatever's happened to the great British reserve? We are a nation of happy homeowners - and, what's more, we're prepared to admit it.
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Challenges of the Demographic Shift
Foresight Ageing Population Panel
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Men Support Blair's Paternity Leave
The majority of men support new fathers like Tony Blair taking paternity leave after the birth of their children.