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While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.
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As the people at the sharp end of delivering the government's commitment to tackle climate change we know attaining zero carbon status has always involved a flexible approach.
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All too often affordable housing can be a block on mobility and aspiration, so instead Conservatives will ensure that living in social accommodation means that you'll get a 'freedom pass' to get on and do more with your life.
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By scrapping the government's centrally dictated density targets we'll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they're needed, ending the glut of one- and two-bedroom flats.
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It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.
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Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.
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There is a dangerous chasm between what those seeking election claim they could do in office and the stark reality that once in power the real decision-making has long since been sub-contracted elsewhere.
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For anyone who has found it easy to conceive, it is perhaps hard to imagine how IVF can become all-encompassing in someone's life. The endless check-ups, scans, tests, periods of waiting and finally the day when you learn the result. It's a physically punishing process for the women and an emotionally exhausting process for both partners.
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The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do, because the pain of having raised expectations for parents who are desperate to start a family, only to see those hopes crushed, is more cruel than having said nothing at all.
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Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
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My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.
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Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.
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Most people don't get the chance to do whatever their dream in life was. I have ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do and it has been more enjoyable, challenging, stretching and fulfilling than I would have dared to imagine.
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I think it is absolutely inevitable that Palestinians will, and have to, have their own state.
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I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.
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I suspect I have a relationship with my religion which will seem slightly weird to people who don't understand me.
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I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It's like a way of life and it's good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don't know if there is a God or not.
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I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.
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Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
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Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society.
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There should be a way of saying to people 'thank you very much, it has not worked out but here is a good decent package for you to move on from this role and we will support you to move on into other jobs, so it is not a hire and fire thing'; and those are the sorts of changes that Conservatives would like to see.
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I believe that overall if you want a growing economy what you have got to have is sufficient flexibility to allow that to happen.
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Of course homelessness has many causes and the solutions are often frustratingly complex.
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If there is a moment when it is possible to intervene in the chaotic life of a homeless person, it is when they turn up as an NHS patient.
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I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.
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Our brave servicemen and women sacrifice so much for us all - whether they're spending months away from their families and friends or putting their lives on the line for our country.
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Struggling to start a small business is all-encompassing. It is a 24-hour job that places strain on those involved. As well as worrying about your own mortgage and kids, you worry about those of your staff.
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There's no reason why the public shouldn't be able to see how billions of pounds are being spent on their behalf.
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The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.
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Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As a result, the public wisely let most of the hurly-burly of politics wash over their heads.
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Labour voted to increase welfare spending again and again, without considering the effect that the spending was having, either on the people it was designed to help or those working to support the system.
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MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members - activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage in millions of doorstep conversations, come rain or shine and without pay.
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I absolutely believe that we're the workers' party. We are the party that has always been at the forefront of the big social changes that have promoted women and working people.
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My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.
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It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.
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The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.
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When eco-towns were first announced we said that we would support environmentally-friendly development where local communities supported the home-building; where infrastructure was in place and where the growth was genuinely green.
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Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.
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Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.
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To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers' national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies.
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