In a riposte to Mr Cameron’s high-profile visit to Norway last week to assess the impact of global warming the Liberal Democrat leader challenged

In a riposte to Mr Cameron’s high-profile visit to Norway last week to assess the impact of global warming, the Liberal Democrat leader challenged him to match his statements with policy. Sir Menzies Campbell has challenged David Cameron to back immediate environmental tax rises as he launched an attack on the Conservative leader’s green credentials. Labour is down four points since last month and the Tories down two, while the Liberal Democrats are up three points.. The political survival of the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, lies on a knife-edge as he prepares to disclose today how many of the 1,023 offenders freed over the past seven years without deportation hearings have been tracked down. As police and probation officers worked into the night trying to locate the “missing” offenders, Home Office officials conceded that Mr Clarke could be forced to quit if foreign criminals who should have been deported reoffended after release..

The “poll of polls” for The Independent puts Labour and the Tories on 33 per cent wth the Liberal Democrats on 22 per cent, their highest rating since last summer. Economic forecasters warned of millions of job losses, and still the currency speculators abandoned sterling.. Labour’s popularity has slumped but the Tories have failed to take advantage of the Government’s troubles, according to a new survey. As interest rates went up and up, rising from 10 to 15 per cent in four hours, hundreds of thousands of homeowning families faced the awful prospect that they would default on their mortgages and lose their homes.

September 16, 1992, was one of those rare days when you could keep up with the political news just by being out on the streets overhearing conversations between strangers. Black though Wednesday may have been for Tony Blair, it does not compare with the disaster that engulfed John Major’s administration on the day Britain left Europe’s exchange rate mechanism. The parallels with today are obvious enough, but they can be taken too far. Some MPs believe that, if there are further revelations about his private life, he might even stand down in the reshuffle expected after next week’s council elections in England.. Speculation at Westminster suggested Mr Prescott could stand down from the Cabinet before completing what he regards as his final service to Labour – ensuring an orderly transition from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown. John Prescott was under mounting pressure last night over his affair with his diary secretary after Tory MPs called for him to quit over allegations that he abused his position as Deputy Prime Minister.

“If they continue into the summer, then motorists and businesses will suffer.”. Washington has turned up the temperature on Tehran in recent weeks and the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, will report today that Iran has refused to suspend uranium enrichment.In Britain, Ms Bridger said that the record prices resulting from such uncertainty were hardly “the end of the world” for British motorists, but did mean that some would have to deploy “a lighter foot on the accelerator” to get more miles out of their tank. When I went to university, they were biting my hand off for me to take credit and, of course, being young and away from home for the first time, it’s hard to resist. I ended up with three credit cards pretty much maxed out within a very short period of time. Although I choose now not to have credit cards, I would find it very difficult to get one anyway because of my poor credit rating.I’m still in £12-15,000 worth of debt now.