Tories back off from plans to give Sir Richard Dannatt a peerage and job as defence minister
Lord Mandelson explains how he bought his abode: “If you ask me whether I would rather have my nice terraced house…or have my mother still alive today, I would prefer my mother still to be alive”.
Alistair Darling remains cool on Obama plans to separate bank functions
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