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Fink U-turn: top Tory admits to ‘vanilla’ tax avoidance

In Depth ‘Everyone does it’ says Tory party treasurer as Ed Miliband wins tax avoidance clash on points

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  So, sue me! ‘Horrid’ Miliband set to accept Fink challenge

  In Depth After calling Cameron ‘a dodgy prime minister’, Labour leader ‘ready’ to risk libel action by Tory treasurer

  By The Mole Published 12 February 15

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  Sturgeon’s £180bn splash threatens SNP-Labour pact

  In Depth First Trident, now public spending: SNP leader says she’ll smash cosy consensus of ‘cut at all costs’

  By The Mole Published 11 February 15

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  Cameron’s Ball does nothing to improve Tory party image

  In Depth Meanwhile Ed Miliband doesn’t help himself by avoiding a Chambers of Commerce conference

  By The Mole Published 10 February 15

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  Cynical bribes to voters: Labour and Tories under fire

  In Depth Pensioner bonds extended for (Tory voting) over-65s: extra paternity leave for young (Labour voting) dads

  By The Mole Published 9 February 15

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  Stop ‘unfair’ attacks on Ed Miliband, urges Tory Gove

  In Depth Labour high command will be flabbergasted by his honesty: will he now come to Clegg’s defence?

  By The Mole Published 6 February 15

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  PM’s jibes mask Tory fears that Miliband is ‘on the right side’

  In Depth Cameron bludgeons his way through PMQs, refusing to answer question about hedge funders' tax break

  By The Mole Published 5 February 15

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  Newsnight skewers Ed Balls over ‘Bill Somebody’ blunder

  In Depth Balls forgets name of ‘Labour-friendly business leader’. But what’s Newsnight up to, asks Polly Toynbee

  By The Mole Published 4 February 15

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  Ed Miliband under fire – but does he have public on side?

  In Depth And whatever happened to David Cameron’s view that tax avoiders needed to wake up and smell the coffee?

  By The Mole Published 3 February 15

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  Cameron’s mummy problem: will war on mediocre schools help?

  In Depth But PM's line on academies and Three Rs comes straight from Gove – who proved ‘toxic’ with mums

  By The Mole Published 2 February 15

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  Newsnight leaves Labour’s NHS plans bloodied and bruised

  In Depth Allegra Stratton package puts Labour’s Andy Burnham on the spot again over private sector competition

  By The Mole Published 30 January 15

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  Labour pledge to get tough on immigration draws flak

  In Depth Let’s not out-kip Ukip, says MP David Lammy, as Labour confront an uncomfortable issue

  By The Mole Published 29 January 15

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  Alan Milburn intervention risks sabotaging Labour win

  In Depth Mordernising Health Secretary throws spanner in works by criticising Labour's NHS approach

  By The Mole Published 28 January 15

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  100 days war starts here as PM pledges welfare cuts

  In Depth At last he’s sounding like a proper Tory, says Mail: he’s also happy to join TV debates (with caveats)

  By The Mole Published 27 January 15

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  Let Greece be a lesson - Vote Tory! says George Osborne

  In Depth Chancellor raises spectre of a vote for Labour being tantamount to backing Syriza’s ‘false hope’

  By The Mole Published 26 January 15

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  TV debates: will Cameron relent? Will anyone watch?

  In Depth The leader of the Greens – and of the SNP and Plaid Cymru - are now invited: it’s looking like a farce

  By The Mole Published 23 January 15

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  Sturgeon gets tough, paving way for SNP-Labour coalition

  In Depth As David Cameron heads to Scotland to unveil ‘massive transfer of power’, SNP leader has other ideas

  By The Mole Published 22 January 15

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  Cameron exploits gossip to knock ‘shambolic’ Miliband

  In Depth PM risks being accused of belittling PMQs by bringing up tittle-tattle from Mail serialisation

  By The Mole Published 21 January 15

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  Mandelson attacks mansion tax: well he would, wouldn’t he?

  In Depth More important to Miliband, Ukip leader Nigel Farage has risked bringing up NHS privatisation again

  By The Mole Published 20 January 15

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  Oxfam report another nail in the ‘trickle-down’ coffin

  In Depth Even Barack Obama is calling for higher taxes on the wealthy: but what does his ‘bro’ Cameron have to say?

  By The Mole Published 19 January 15

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  Archbishops attack coalition for ‘evil’ of inequality

  In Depth The economy is working again – but for who? Welby and Sentamu argue with Tories’ election strategy

  By The Mole Published 15 January 15

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  PM's TV absence 'unacceptable' - but why Farage and not Green leader?

  In Depth Miliband, Clegg and Farage find an issue they’re agreed on: but shouldn't they be backing Natalie?

  By The Mole Published 14 January 15

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  Borrowing v austerity: take your pick on 7 May, says IFS

  In Depth Think tank warns of £170bn extra debt under Labour but paints a miserable picture if Tories succeed

  By The Mole Published 13 January 15

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  ‘Empty chair’ threat to PM if he won’t join TV debates

  In Depth Cameron accused of ‘chickening out’ of TV debates because he fears Farage’s impact on Tory voters

  By The Mole Published 9 January 15

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  PM ‘must persuade Merkel he's not bluffing about leaving EU'

  In Depth Tory eurosceptic David Davis says German leader must understand Cameron is not sabre-rattling

  By The Mole Published 7 January 15

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