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Conservative party sacks 10% of HQ staff

Economies include cuts in party's policy section, which provides ideas for next general election
Labour now delights in its new Mandelson with a plan

Martin Kettle: The once-reviled business secretary has raised his game as a thinker in the face of financial crisis
Sipson can define an era

John Harris: The hugely symbolic Heathrow runway ruling has been delayed, and there is a tiny ray of hope
Blazing passions

Simon Hoggart: This Damian Green business falls short of the greatest constitutional scandal of this or any age
Diary

Hugh Muir: Gordon's running a tight ship
90 tax offices to close with loss of 3,400 staff

Latest in plans to reduce number of civil servants handling tax and VAT claims as part of Whitehall efficiency drive

The Road Runner moment

Editorial: After years of shopping and borrowing, the economy has run out of road - and the nosedive has begun
Flawed evidence on benefit fraud

Letters: Even though the government says that benefit fraud has been more than halved, it can't resist grabbing a headline
Yesterday in parliament

Gordon Brown said the UK was in a 'state of shock' over the Mumbai terror attacks
Government launches anti-cocaine ad

Advertisements voiced by David Mitchell are targeted at 15- to 18-year-olds to make them more aware of risks
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- Audio: Alan Travis