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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron starts a visit to the U.S. overshadowed by his Tory lawmakers planning a rebellion over Britain’s membership in the European Union and a call from a Cabinet minister to exit the bloc.
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David Cameron faces battles with his own Tory lawmakers over plans to legalize gay marriage and with his coalition partner, Nick Clegg, over changes to child care designed to cut costs for working parents.
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U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg killed off plans by David Cameron’s Conservatives to monitor data from phone calls and e-mails, citing concerns about civil liberties, as Parliament prepared to end its current session.
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When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called an election for May 6, most pundits expected a traditional two-horse race between the Conservative and Labour parties, with David Cameron’s Tories snatching a narrow victory in the final lap. They certainly didn’t expect Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg to crash the party and deny victory to either of his more established rivals-potentially even taking the main prize for himself.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron moved Energy Minister John Hayes, an open critic of the environmental policy of their Liberal Democrat coalition partners, to a new post working with the premier.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives begin a battle to win the Eastleigh parliamentary special election with a three-point lead over Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats, who currently hold the seat, a poll showed.
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Former U.K. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said he’ll step down as a Liberal Democrat lawmaker after pleading guilty in a London court today to perverting the course of justice in relation to a speeding offense.
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Votes are being counted after a special election to the House of Commons in the southern English town of Eastleigh that has pitted the two parties in the U.K.’s ruling coalition against each other.
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A Labour government would tax U.K. homes valued at over 2 million pounds ($3.1 million) to pay for a new 10 percent income-tax band for low earners, the opposition party’s leader, Ed Miliband, announced today.
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The U.K.’s opposition Labour Party will call a parliamentary vote on leader Ed Miliband’s plan to levy a tax on houses valued at more than 2 million pounds ($3.1 million), in an effort to embarrass Liberal Democrat ministers.
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