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Nurses Spell Out Their NHS Spending Priorities
Nurses believe the biggest priority for tackling nurse shortages is for services to have the right number and type of nurses, health care assistants and other staff, according to a MORI poll for the Royal College of Nursing, published on the eve of RCN Congress 2000.
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What is "Britishness"?
What is "Britishness"? Is there some common national identity that all of us, or most of us, in these islands share? And are there common characteristics which we tend to assume other Britons are likely to have? The question poses itself in the week in which Tony Blair and William Hague, in their own ways, tried to make political capital by appealing to British voters' instincts of national identity.
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46% Of Londoners Want Tax Raising Powers For London Assembly
A BBC London Live Poll conducted by MORI for BBC London Live 94.9 which on Monday 27th March, has revealed that 46% of Londoners believe that without tax raising powers, the Mayor and Greater London Authority will not be able to tackle London's problems effectively, with a further 9% neutral on the issue.
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New Findings Highlight Link Between School Exclusion And Offending
The link between patterns of truancy and school exclusion and offending by young people is thrown into sharp relief by two surveys carried out by MORI on behalf of the Youth Justice Board.
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Parents In The Workplace
Over half of adults in Great Britain think Tony Blair should not take paternity leave when his child is born in May, according to a MORI poll for the Mail on Sunday. 57% want him to carry on his job as normal, whilst only a quarter say he should take unpaid parental leave from his job which he is entitled to do under new legislation brought in by his government.
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NHS Spending and Tax Cuts
If the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, had time to glance at the Guardian on the morning of Budget Day, perhaps as he ate the frugal breakfast the price of which he apparently had to borrow from a colleague, it might just have raised a smile. For there, in ICM's poll, the mass of the public were saying they wanted him to do very much what he was proposing to announce that he would do. Most of them wanted him to use any spare cash to help the Health Service, and more than half thought a rise in duty on tobacco was the most acceptable tax.
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Labour slumps in Ayr
So, the Conservatives have comfortably gained Ayr from Labour in the first by-election to the Scottish Parliament
(as the polls suggested they would! - ICM/Scotsman poll, Scottish Opinion/Daily Record poll), with Labour convincingly beaten into third by the Scottish National Party, and their Liberal Democrat coalition partners slipping to fifth behind the Scottish Socialist Party. What, if anything, are the wider implications for Labour, and for the Tories? -
Increasing Support In Lewis And Harris For Sunday Sailings And Air Links
A poll conducted by MORI Scotland for BBC Scotland's Gaelic community debate series CUNNTAS (translated as "An account of…") suggests that a majority of islanders now favour the introduction of ferry and air services on Sundays. The poll shows that an overwhelming majority would like to see a local referendum on the issue.