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Afternoon summary
• Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's first minister, has said that he was "incandescant with rage" to learn that letters were being sent to IRA fugitives telling them that they would not be prosecuted if they returned to the United Kingdom.
I and those around me were incandescent with rage, absolutely furious that this has been going on without us being informed about it, without us having any knowledge of what was going on. That would be bad enough, because most of this did take place during the period when the Ulster Unionist Party was the main party in Northern Ireland, most of it is around 2000, 2001, 2002 and on into 2003.
But there are aspects of it which had gone on beyond the time when we set up the new administration here in 2007 and indeed, I am informed, right up to 2012, this has been going on [during] the processing of these matters.
I am furious, I know David Ford [Northern Ireland justice minister] is furious about it, because none of us were informed. I have to say quite frankly, I am not prepared to be the First Minister of the government that is kept in the dark on matters which are relevant, very relevant, to what we are doing.
I have spent the last number of months dealing with the Haas Talks, the Haas Talks were about getting justice for people who had no justice for the terrorist acts that had been carried out against them or their families. Now we find out that they never would get justice, because there are people going around with letters stuffed in their pockets, which says that even if somebody fingers you you're not going to jail. That is an outrage, I think, in any democratic state.
• Vince Cable, the business secretary, has said that the Low Pay Commission has recommended a 3% rise in the minimum wage to £6.50 from October. As the Press Association reports, Cable said the figure, if accepted by the government, would be the first real-terms increase since 2008. After disclosing the recommendation to a parliamentary committee, Cable said: "It is faster than inflation and that is the first time in six years that has happened."
• Coalition MPs have defeated an attempt by Labour to stop the government closing a loophole that meant people who had been claiming housing benefit continuously since 1996 were exempt from the bedroom tax. The government won by 304 votes to 253, a majority of 51.
That's all from me for today.
Thanks for the comments.
Lunchtime summary
• Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is under threat of collapse after the first minister, Peter Robinson, warned he would resign unless there was a judicial review into how the case against a suspected IRA Hyde Park bomber collapsed. As Henry McDonald reports, Robinson and the Democratic Unionists – the largest party in the region – have come under fire from grassroots unionists over their continuation in government with Sinn Féin since revelations in the Old Bailey on Tuesday that secret letters from the Northern Ireland Office gave a de facto amnesty to 187 IRA fugitives or so-called "on the runs". The decision to free John Downey in court on Tuesday has created the most dangerous political crisis at Stormont since devolution was restored and a five-party coalition regional government was formed in 2007.
• David Cameron has issued his strongest declaration that climate change is man-made when he said it was one of the most serious threats facing Britain and the rest of the world. As Nicholas Watt reports, the prime minister, who appeared to be wary in recent weeks of drawing a direct link between the effects of industrialisation and climate change, issued his unequivocal statement after Ed Miliband suggested he was unwilling to take tough action.Cameron replied:
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces. That is why we have the world's first green investment bank here in Britain.
• Ed Miliband has accused Cameron of using "phoney" figures on flood defence spending. At PMQs Miliband quoted from a letter Sir Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, has written to a Labour MP about a claim made in January by Environment Secretary Owen Paterson that the Government was "providing more than any previous Government in the current spending review". Dilnot wrote:
As at January 2014, government funding for flood defences was expected to be lower in both nominal and real terms during the current spending period than during the last spending period.
Our analysis also supports the conclusion that the statement 'over the current spending review period, more is being spent (on flood defences) than ever before' is supported by the statistics if the comparison is made in nominal terms and includes external funding, but it is not supported by the statistics if the comparison is made in real terms, or if external funding is excluded.
Cameron responded:
The fact is that if you take the period 2010, when I became Prime Minister, to 2014, the spending has been £2.4 billion - more than the £2.2 billion in the previous four years.
• Nick Clegg has condemned the "preposterous" idea that either David Cameron or Ed Miliband could run a minority government, saying it would be unstable and bad for the country.
• Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, has backed proposals to close Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. He gave the details in a written statement to MPs.
• Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has told MPs that an extra 40,000 households will be affected by a government plan to extend the bedroom tax. She was speaking at the start of a Labour debate opposing the government's attempt to close the loophole that means people who have been living in the same place since 1996 are exempt. She said that, on the basis of Freedom of Information requests submitted by Labour, an estimated 40,000 extra households would be covered once the loophole was closed. She also said that, because of the paperwork involved for councils, closing this loophole would cost money.
The bedroom tax was misconceived from the start, incompetently executed every step of the way. The chaos, the confusion, the extra costs are mounting, with the heaviest price paid by the poorest and the most vulnerable. What the government should be doing today is scrapping the bedroom tax. Instead, they are making it apply to an extra 40,000 households. If this government won't scrap the bedroom tax, the next Labour government will.
• Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has said that if Scotland votes to leave the UK, it will be leaving the BBC too.
• The Office for National Statistics has revealed that Britain's economy grew at a slightly slower rate than previously thought in 2013.
• The Labour MP Jack Dromey has rejected claims he did not do "much" to try to expel Paedophile Information Exchange from the National Council for Civil Liberties in the 1970s.
• David Laws, the education minister, has described the gap in educational attainment between white working class pupils and other pupils as "pretty disgraceful". The next government should consider whether funding could be better targeted, he told the education committee.
The urgent question is over.
The Conservative John Baron raises a point of order. MPs wanted to find out who authorised these letters, he says. But Grieve did not tell them. What can be done?
Grieve says he made it clear that they were a decision of government. It might be possible to identify individual ministers responsible, he says.
Grieve says there was nothing unlawful about telling people that they were not being sought by the police.
Guy Opperman, a Conservative, asks if Grieve agrees that there should be a review of this case.
Grieve says that, as a result of the inquiry by the PSNI, there will be a wide-ranging review of the process under which these letters were sent.
Grieve says no individual has acquired immunity for crimes committed during the Troubles.
Michael Ellis, a Conservative, asks Grieve if he will reconsider his decision to rule out an appeal. Stays of prosecution can be reversed, he says.
Grieve says the decision has already been taken by him and the CPS. He believes it is the correct decision, he says.
Mark Durkan, the SDLP MP, asks if parliament could rescind the letters sent to John Downey and others.
Grieve says the court judgment does not undermine the rule of law. Durkan should read it, he says. It emphasises fairness.
As for rescinding the letters, that is a matter for wider debate.
William McCrae, a DUP MP, asks who else has received a letter like this. Have letters gone to Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness? What other "dirty deeds" have been done behind the backs of the people of Northern Ireland.
Grieve says McCrae can pursue this with the police ombudsman. And he can raise the matter in parliament.
Gareth Johnson, a Conservative, asks if the letter to John Downey could stop civil proceedings being brought by the victims of the families.
Grieve says this letter would not stop such a civil action.
On the World at One the defence minister Anna Soubry was asked about Peter Robinson's threat.
Back in the Commons Ian Paisley, the DUP MP, says this is a "sad and sorry" affair. The case law now established has undermined the rule of law, he says. He says Grieve should rescind all the letter sent out to on-the-run prisoners.
Grieve says rescinding the letters is not a matter for him. It is a matter for government, but not for him.
As for this case establishing case law, Grieve says this is not new. There is established case law saying that assurances given by government should be honoured.
Here are some of the quotes from Peter Robinson.
I am not prepared to be kept in the dark by Her Majesty's government about matters relevant to Northern Ireland.
I want a full judicial inquiry to find out who knew, when they knew and what they knew. I want to know who they are and what crimes they are believed to have committed ...
I am not prepared to be a stooge for Westminster who keep secrets on matters which are now devolved to Northern Ireland.
Robinson said that, if he had known about this arrangement, he and DUP leader Ian Paisley would not have entered into a power-sharing agreement with Sinn Fein in 2007.
Here is more on Peter Robinson's resignation threat.
OTR stands for on-the-run.
The BBC is reporting that Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's first minister, is threatening to resign unless there is a judicial review of the decision to drop the prosecution of John Downey.
• Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's first minister, is threatening to resign over Hyde Park bombing case, the BBC is reporting.
Labour's Kate Hoey says this policy amounted to an amnesty for on-the-runs, even though parliament specifically said it did not want this. And does Grieve accept that officials would not have written these letters unless they had been told to do so.
Greive accepts the latter point.
But he says he does not accept Hoey's argument that these letters amounted to an amnesty. This letter should not have been sent to Downey, he says.
Graham Brady, a Conservative, asks if the letter sent to John Downey has now been rescinded.
Grieve says he cannot give that assurance.
Nigel Dodds, the DUP MP, says victims are feeling very hurt. Does Grieve think it is right that every stone should be left unturned in the pursuit of justice in this case? What more can be done? And isn't there a case for a full inquiry, so that parliament can examine this scheme?
Grieve says this scheme is a legitimate matter for debate. But it is not a matter for his department, he says.
If prosecutions can be pursued, and it is in the public interest, that should happen, he says.
Grieve says there is a difference between applying the prerogative of mercy, which is what happened when prisoners were released under the Good Friday Agreement, and offering an amnesty.
Grieve issued a written statement on this earlier. Here it is (pdf).
Here is the key extract. Grieve largely repeated it in his oral statement at the start of these exchanges.
John Anthony Downey was arrested on 19th May 2013 at Gatwick Airport where he was on route to Greece. On his arrest he produced a letter stating that he was free to enter the jurisdiction without fear of arrest. Despite that letter he was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with four counts of murder. Before he was charged my consent was sought, as the law requires, for him to face a charge of causing an explosion. I gave that consent.
I believed then that it was right to do so and I remain of the same view today.
The allegations faced by Mr Downey were of the utmost seriousness. The bombing was an attempt by the Provisional IRA to bring their terrorist campaign to London and to attack armed forces personnel who were on ceremonial duties. Whatever the circumstances in which the letter had been sent, and it is now clear that its assurances were wrongly given, it was right that the matter should be tested in court. Neither I nor the CPS were prepared to accept that the letter and the circumstances in which it had been given were such as to automatically prevent Mr Downey's prosecution.
The court has now heard full argument and has considered a great deal of documentation. The judgment given is a detailed and careful assessment of the case and the circumstances in which Mr Downey received his letter. The CPS and I do not consider it gives rise to any prospect of successful appeal, and I am therefore of the view that the matter cannot be pursued further.
My sympathies are with the families of those who died and with those who were injured.
David Davis, a Conservative, asks under what law was John Downey released.
Grieve says that he has no reasons to doubt the court's decision. The judge thought it would be wrong for the prosecution to be allowed to continue, he says.
Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, says Labour supports the government's decision to support the prosecution originally.
Will MPs be told how this mistake occurred?
How many letters of this kind have been issued to on-the-runs?
Will the Northern Ireland secretary make a statement later?
And will Cameron clarify what he meant when he spoke on this earlier?
Grieve says there will be an inquiry into what went wrong.
The public will want to know whether this was an isolated incident, or whether there are other cases.
Since 2010, 38 letters of this kind have been sent out, he says.
The public interest was in favour of this prosecution, he says.
Grieve is responding to Robertson.
The scheme was not an amnesty, he says.
It was an administrative scheme.
An individual would only be told that they were free to return on the understanding that no evidence would come to light in future allowing them to be prosecuted.
A serious administrative mistake was made by the PSNI, he says.
Laurence Robertson, the Conservative chair of the Northern Ireland committee, tabled the urgent question about this.
He says the Good Friday Agreement was not meant to be an amnesty.
Does Grieve accept that this decision undermines justice?
Grieve says the government will not be challenging the court's decision.
There was a written ministerial statement on this issued yesterday.
Here it is.
On 21 February, Mr Justice Sweeney ruled that an abuse of process had taken place in the prosecution of John Downey for offences relating to the Hyde Park bombing which took place on 20 July 1982. Mr Downey was part of an administrative scheme set up by the previous Government to deal with so-called "on-the-runs", that is, people who believed they might face questioning or arrest in connection with terrorist or other criminal offences committed prior to the 1998 political agreement if they returned to the United Kingdom.
When he was arrested on 19 May 2013, Mr Downey was in possession of a letter from a senior official in the Northern Ireland Office dated July 2007 that read as follows:
"The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has been informed by the Attorney General that on the basis of the information currently available, there is no outstanding direction for prosecution in Northern Ireland, there are no warrants in existence nor are you wanted in Northern Ireland for arrest, questioning or charge by the police. The Police Service of Northern Ireland are not aware of any interest in you from any other police force in the United Kingdom. If any other outstanding offence or offences came to light, or if any request for extradition were to be received, these would have to be dealt with in the usual way."
It has subsequently become clear that this letter contained an error. Mr Downey was in fact sought for arrest by the Metropolitan Police at that time for charges relating to the Hyde Park bombing, in which four soldiers of the Blues and Royals carrying out ceremonial duties were murdered and seven horses were killed.
Tragically, later that same day another bomb at Regent's Park resulted in the murder of seven members of the Royal Green Jackets. The Government remain clear that these were terrible terrorist atrocities that had absolutely no justification.
The judge concluded that the error had been made by officers of the PSNI. The Northern Ireland Office had sought confirmation before sending the letter that the appropriate checks had been made. It was assured by the PSNI that they had been. As has been made clear by the legal proceedings relating to Mr Downey, an administrative scheme to deal with so-called "on the runs" was in operation from around September 2000. It was devised by the previous Government. The details were not fully set out to Parliament, though the scheme was referred to in July 2002 in the answer to a parliamentary question given by the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, John Reid.
Following the failure of the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill in 2005-06, the administrative scheme became the only mechanism for dealing with OTRs. Under the scheme inquiries from individuals wishing to establish if they were wanted for arrest over suspected terrorist activities were communicated, by Sinn Fein, through the Northern Ireland Office, to the Attorney-General, who then referred them to the prosecuting authorities and the police. The Government communicated back the response to Sinn Fein via a letter from the Northern Ireland Office.
On the information available to the police and prosecuting authorities at the time, individuals who were not sought for arrest were informed of this. They were also advised that should new information or evidence of wrongdoing come to light at any point in the future, then they would be subjected to normal criminal proceedings. There was, therefore, no immunity from possible future arrest.
The current Government looked again at the scheme and decided that any future requests should be referred to the devolved authorities in Northern Ireland, in line with the devolution of policing and justice. The Northern Ireland Office subsequently dealt only with pending cases for which requests had been received prior to the general election.
Our records indicate that around 200 individuals were subject to the scheme. Of those, approximately three quarters were informed by letter delivered through a Sinn Fein representative, that at the time they received the letter, they were not sought for arrest, questioning or charge by police; but that if any new information came to light that this was subject to change.
This procedure clarified the positions of these individuals who were otherwise unsure whether they remained wanted for arrest. In the light of the recent court judgment, my Department is working with the police and prosecuting authorities to check whether anyone sent a similar letter is wanted for an offence committed before the date of the letter. As policing and justice have been devolved issues in Northern Ireland since 2010, any further requests for the scheme, or clarifications on whether particular individuals remain wanted for arrest, should be directed to the PSNI and devolved prosecuting authorities.
The Government are looking carefully at the judgment of the court. It is right that time is taken to consider its full implications. The PSNI will wish to reflect on lessons learned from this case and the circumstances that led to the serious error which has occurred.
As has been stated on a number of occasions, this Government do not support an amnesty for people wanted by the police in connection with terrorist offences. We believe in upholding the rule of law. That is why both the coalition parties strongly opposed the legislation introduced by the Labour Government in 2005 which would have introduced what was effectively an amnesty for so-called "on-the-runs".
Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, is making the statement.
Commons statement on Hyde Park bombing suspect walking free
We are now getting an urgent question about the collapse of the trial of the man accused of the Hyde Park bombing in 1982.
Here's the Guardian story about this. And here's how it starts.
A man accused of murdering four soldiers in an IRA bomb attack in London's Hyde Park in 1982 has walked free from court after a judge ruled his trial should not go ahead because of British government assurances he received under the Good Friday peace agreement.
John Anthony Downey, 62, from County Donegal, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of four soldiers from the Household Cavalry who died in the blast on 20 July 1982 along with seven of their horses.
The bomb had been concealed in a car and was detonated as the soldiers rode past on ceremonial duties.
The case against Downey is understood to have relied heavily on disputed fingerprint evidence from car parks where the car was parked before the attack.
Downey's lawyers argued that he should not face trial because he was one of 187 IRA suspects who had been sent letters giving "a clear and unequivocal assurance" that they were no longer wanted by any police force in the UK. The assurance had been given by the British government in return for the IRA's promise to decommission its arms. During the Old Bailey hearings, the prosecution argued that there was evidence that Downey's letter had been sent in error.
And here is an article with Ian Cobain with more background to the case.
Labour's Joan Walley says MPs are disappointed that there will be no oral statement on Mid Staffs.
(I thought there would be one this morning, but we are just getting a written statement instead.)
Cameron says he is sure that there will be a chance to debate the decisions being announced today.
Cameron says the government is discussing with Atos how its contract is taken forward.
But it is necessary to have a system for seeing if people are able to work, he says.
Labour wants the benefits bill to be bigger and bigger, he says.
Labour's Helen Jones says Cameron said last year that disabled people would be exempt from the bedroom tax. But some disabled people are not exempt. Will Cameron apologise?
Cameron says this is an issue of fairness. It is unfair to have extra money for people with spare rooms in the social sector, but not in the private sector. Discretionary payments are available to help the people mentioned by Jones, he says.
Nadine Dorries, a Conservative, says more than 200 women have been killed by men over the last three years. That is more than the number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Many attackers started by stalking. Will the government address this?
Cameron says the government has already toughened the laws on stalking. He is happy to see if more can be done.
Richard Bacon, a Conservative, asks Cameron if he can learn from Angela Merkel's grand coalition in Germany. Is there a case for one here, so that the Lib Dems can be left where they belong - outside it.
Cameron says there is much he admires about Merkel. But a grand coalition would be a step too far, he says.
Margaret Ritchie, the SDLP MP, asks Cameron if he agrees that there is a need for more transparency about the terms of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.
Cameron says Downing Street has been very happy to play its role in bringing parties together and promoting peace in Northern Ireland.
Dame Tessa Jowell, the Labour MP, asks Cameron if he will try to ensure that Survivors for Peace, a charity helping terrorist victims, continues to get funding.
Cameron says Survivors for Peace does a valuable job. He will be happy to have a meeting about this.
Charlotte Leslie, a Conservative, says there should be an investigation into death rates in hospitals in Wales.
Cameron agrees. Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS England medical director, has raised concerns, he says. And the Royal College of Surgeons have raised concerns too. It's a matter for the Welsh government. They need to get their act together.
Labour's Jack Dromey asks Cameron about the death of someone in his constituency killed by a speeding driver. Is it time to reconsider sentences for people who kill with a car?
Cameron says he thinks it is right to look at this again. He has discussed it with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary.
Nigel Dodds, the DUP MP, asks Cameron if he understands how angry people are about the collapse of the trial of John Downey for the Hyde Park bombing in 1982. Can the decision be overturned?
Cameron says he can understand people's anger about this. But it is important to remain a country governed by the rule of law.
Snap PMQs Verdict: A clear victory for John Bercow - because today's exchanges were much quieter than usual. As for Cameron v Miliband, Miliband won on flooding funding (Cameron sounded evasive), but the climate change exchanges were a bit more of a draw.
Miliband says he agrees. But powerful people in the government do not accept this. He quotes Owen Paterson and Michael Fallon. Is Cameron happy to have climate change deniers in government?
Cameron says he likes the fact Miliband is praising his record. He likes this non Punch and Judy approach. Will Miliband congratulate him again?
Miliband says Cameron has not been able to answer the question about whether you need to believe in climate change to be in his government. This was supposed to be part of his credo. If we are going to protect the British people, we cannot have doubt on this. Doesn't Cameron need to tell his party to get real on climate change?
Cameron says you can measure the government by what it does. Miliband talks about climate change. But he did not deliver in government. The worst deniers are the reality deniers in Labour. They do not accept the need for economic reform.
Miliband says people will trust the UK Statistics Authority, not Cameron. In opposition Cameron said it was easy to do soft things, like visiting glaciers. It is harder to do other things, like telling the truth about climate change. What is the truth?
Cameron says the government is addressing climate change. Labour is committed to a zero-based spending review. That means they cannot match the government's spending plans for flooding.
Miliband says that's total nonsense. In opposition Cameron wanted to talk as much as possible about climate change. What are Cameron's views about man-made climate change?
Cameron says he thinks man-made climate change is one of the most serious problems the country faces. That is why the government is building a nuclear power station, setting up a Green Investment Bank and cutting carbon emissions.
Ed Miliband asks if it is right to revisit plans for flood defences, especially in the light of the UK Statistics Authority saying government spending on flood defences has gone down.
Cameron says overall spending on flood defences has gone up.
Miliband says Cameron's figures are phoney. The UK Statistics Authority says government funding was lower in real terms and in nominal terms. The only way you get a higher figure is by ignoring inflation and including other spending.
Cameron says, over five years, the spending is higher.
But this debate is pointless. The country should be coming together. From the moment Miliband turned up in a flooded village with a Labour candidate, he has misjudged the mood of the country.
Sir Alan Beith, a Lib Dem, asks Cameron if he will discuss measures to address poverty with church leaders.
Cameron says Beith is a distinguished churchman. He talks sense. There is nothing moral about massive welfare spending. Politicians should listen to George Carey.
Graeme Morrice, the Labour MP, asks about the bonuses paid at HSBC. Isn't it time for a bank bonus tax?
David Cameron starts congratulating Team GB in the Winter Olympics.
On bonuses, he says they were well down from the appalling situation left by Labour. But there needs to be proper control of bonuses and pay. If you just focus on bonuses, like Labour, you will get people paid for poor performance.
PMQs is about to start.
The Mail's Tim Shipman hopes John Bercow's appeal for a calmer tone will not get anywhere.
Nick Clegg's press conference - Summary
Nick Clegg can be infuriating. His attempt to claim that there is nothing particularly new about the way the Lib Dems are now highlighting their differences with the Tories was, frankly, implausible (although, to be fair, he had a sound point to make about the public accepting that coalition parties are not the same), he seemed to be having it both ways on the question of whether Nigel Farage should be included in the leaders' debates before the election and don't get me started on his line about the in/out referendum. Still, at least he actually holds press conferences. For that alone, he deserves credit. And he engaged with plenty of questions. We did not get a front-page story, but there were quite a few moderately interesting lines.
Here are the main points.
• Clegg signalled that, in the event of a hung parliament after 2015, the Lib Dems would insist on a second coalition. They would not instead support a minority government on a confidence-and-supply arrangement (a deal to support it on votes of confidence and on the budget), he said. Minority governments led to unstable governments, he said. (See 10.59am.)
• He criticised those figures in the Conservative and Labour parties who were arguing that a minority government would be better than a coalition. He said these calls represented the "last gasp" of the Tories and Labour assuming they had the right to govern alone.
Clearly there is a sort of McCluskey tendency in both the Labour and Conservative parties.
Clegg said these people were "taking the British people for granted", and they wanted to "deprive the British people of a stable government".
• He rejected suggestions that the Lib Dems were now pursuing an aggressive differentiation strategy in relation to their coalition partners. (See 10.40am.) Some journalists were not convinced.
• Clegg suggested that efforts were being made behind the scenes to resolve the party's dispute with Lord Rennard. But he still wanted Rennard to apologise, he said.
• He said he would like the government to go further in extending the amount of time migrants have to wait before they can claim benefits.
• He confirmed that he wanted to devolve more powers to Scotland. (See 10.28am.)
• He said that hundreds of millions of government money had gone into Sheffield and the south Yorkshire region. This prompted the Mail's Jason Groves to tweet this.
Q: You say people are at the heart of politics. But you have opposed a referendum on the EU?
Clegg says he has campaigned for an in/out referendum. And the government has even legislated for a referendum, he says.
It is the Conservatives who have changed their stance on the referendum, he says.
And that's it.
I will post a summary shortly.
Q: Was five years too long for a fixed-term parliament? The government has run out of things to do.
Clegg says this was debated at the time. He thinks five years was right.
Having fixed-term parliaments has made a big difference. It has taken away the tension you used to have at party conferences, because people thought an election might be imminent.
The government is still governing, he says. Yesterday he and Cameron were in the National Security Council debating Ukraine.
Q: You are debating new immigrant benefit rules at the spring conference. They are similar to Tory ideas. So why don't you implement them before 2015?
Clegg says the Lib Dems will debate plans to extend the period before which migrants can claim benefits. If the party approves these plans, he would like to make progress on them in government.
Q: You says pluralism is here to stay. So how can it be right to exclude Nigel Farage from the leaders' debates in 2015?
Clegg says he is "not really that fussed". It is for the broadcasters to decide. But the debates should involve people who will play an important role in parliament after 2015.
Q: Would you rule out a confidence-and-supply arrangement in a hung parliament? Or would you insist on coalition?
Clegg says he thinks minority government is unstable government.
The Tories said this before the 2010 election. They were right.
The McCluskeyite tendency would like to think that, if you do not win an election, you can just govern regardless, he says.
Q: Do the Lib Dems have a problem with Theresa May's report on EU powers in relation to immigration?
Clegg says the government has already published several of its "balance of competencies" reports.
His rule of thumb is that these should be factual, and depoliticised.
Q: What are you hoping for from Angela Merkel's speech tomorrow?
Clegg says he wants her to focus on the biggest challenge of all, which is increasing the economic competitiveness of the EU. He used to negotiate trade deals for the EU, he says. It took 15 years to negotiate a chocolate directive, he says.
When he negotiated with the Chinese, they listened to him because he represented the world's largest single market, he says.
Q: Have you made representations to her about the speech?
Clegg says, with these visits, you do not tell someone what to say.
But there are ongoing discussions, he says.
Clegg says Alex Salmond is brushing concerns about an independent Scotland being in the EU, and about its currency, under the carpet.
He says he has friends north of the border, who are not particularly political, who are worried about these questions.
The UK government is presenting the facts about these matters.
It is important to be as open as possible, he says.
Q: What has happened to the Lord Rennard investigation? You were meant to be appointing an investigator to look into claims he brought the party into disrepute. And are there efforts underway to resolve this?
Clegg says of course efforts are being made to resolve this.
The committee overseeing the disciplinary action will announce the next stage in due course.
Q: You said earlier you did not have an aggressive differentiation strategy. But didn't you tell your party conference about how you had blocked 14 or 15 Tory measures?
Clegg says he never said he did not disagree with the Conservatives. He has always talked about their differences.
In the future coalitions are likely to be more common, he says. The public will have to get used to coalitions disagreeing.
Q: Some Tories suggest they would like to see a debate just between Cameron and Miliband. Would you go to court to try to block that?
Clegg says he does not know about rumours. He wants a three-party debate. Of course the main parties want to keep out the Lib Dems.
Q: Do you think your policy of aggressive differentiation from the Conservatives is counter-productive?
Clegg says he does not accept that the Lib Dems have been doing this. A coalition was always a union of two parties.
Expressing differences does not amount to a crisis.
It would be bizarre in the extreme if the coalition leaders did not admit their differences, he says.
Q: Funding for South Yorkshire is being cut.
Clegg says it it not being cut year on year. The big, cliff-edge drop in funding was decided by Labour.
Labour have done a successful job persuading people that the coalition is cutting this funding, he says.
Q: Will you look again at the funding formula for your region?
Clegg says hundreds of millions of pounds have been poured into his region, and his city, Sheffield. Sheffield has also signed a city deal giving it control of £500m. It is a "total rewriting of history" by Labour in Sheffield to claim that they are the party of increased spending.
The Labour council is also closing almost every library in the south of the city. Yet it is protecting trade union jobs in the town hall.
Q: Have you got any targets for success in the European elections?
Clegg says he is not going to set any arbitrary targets.
He knows the Lib Dems are not fighting these elections in "benign" circumstances.
He says he believes leaving the EU would be very bad for the UK.
The Conservatives are split on the EU. And Labour are "sitting on their hands", he says. Someone has to stand up for Britain staying in the EU, "warts and all".
Q: How do you respond to claims you were "asleep at the wheel" as a Sheffield MP when the government decided to transfer funding from the north to Scotland?
Clegg says the high court defended this decision. For Labour to attack the government over this is hypocritical, he says. Labour cut funding to areas like South Yorkshire at a faster rate. They delivered a cut. The coalition is delivering an increase.
Q: Why are the Tories refusing to publish the government's report on new garden cities?
Clegg says he wants to get on with this. Some people are more reluctant. But you need local communities to be involved and supportive, he says.
Some communities are in favour of now, "properly-planned communities".
If you do not do this, you will consign many communities to "a whole rash of planning disputes". That is because the extra houses will have to go in many areas.
Q: But why hasn't the report come out?
Clegg says the government is committed to publishing a report on this. That is what it will do.
Q: Is there a need for a constitutional convention after the Scottish independence referendum in September?
Clegg says he is not sure whether a convention would be the right vehicle. But, assuming Scotland votes to stay in the UK, there would be a need to consider giving it more powers. The choice is not between independence and the status quo. It is between independence and on-going devolution, he says. Devolution is a process, he says. It is not a tablet of stone.
I believe in the maximum amount of decentralisation ... in the UK.
Q: As deputy prime minister, would you debate Scotland's deputy prime minister on the independence?
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Q: Why has the government claimed repeatedly that spending on flood defences has increased when it has not?
Clegg says it depends how you look at the statistics. Over this parliament, some £3.1bn is being spent. That is more than under Labour. Andrew Dilnot, the chair of UK Statistics, acknowledged that, he said. But Dilnot questioned other aspects of the figures.
Q: Do you think Harriet Harman apologise for the links between NCCL and PIE? Does she have questions to answer? [This is from the Mail.]
That's a question for Harman, Clegg says.
He backs the fact that Liberty has apologised.
Q: Has Cameron said anything to you about not having a coalition after 2015?
No, says Clegg.
But there is a McCluskeyiste tendency in both parties.
We are seeing the last gasp of an assumption that only the big parties should be allowed to govern, he says.
He says his own view is that a Conservative-only government, or a Labour-only government, would be bad for the UK.
There are people in the other parties who are so tribal they would deprive the electorate of stable government, he says.
Q: The Tories think Angela Merkel will offer to change the EU. Are you confident of this?
Clegg says he wants EU reform. He was pleased to hear on the Today programme this morning that the campaign to stop the EU parliament making a monthly trek to Strasbourg - a cause he backed when an MEP - may be coming to fruition.
But Clegg says he does not think the Conservatives could unilaterally redraw the way the EU works after 2015. He doesn't think that will work. Reform, yes. But unilateral repatriation of powers, no, he says.
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Nick Clegg is here.
He is starting with an opening statement. He is pleased the economy is recovering. It is becoming more balanced. And intergenerationally more balanced too, he says.
He wants to "strain every sinew" to make sure young people feel they have a chance to participate in the growth.
That's why, at a Q&A yesterday with pupils, he was stressing that youngsters from low-income backgrounds could go to university if they wanted to. A higher number of younger people are going to university than every before. The predictions made at the time of the tuition fee increase have not materialised.
Tomorrow he will publish details of proposals aimed at young people who do not want to go to university, he says. It's the outcome of the review conducted with Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary. It is about making it easier for young people to make the right choices.
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I'm at the Scotland Office, where Nick Clegg's press conference is about to start.
It is not exactly packed. There are about 15 journalists here.
The Today programme carried an interview with Tom O'Carroll, the former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange, this morning. Here's the start of the Press Association's story about his remarks.
Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt failed to take action to oust the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) because they "didn't want to rock the boat", its former chairman has claimed.
Tom O'Carroll said Labour's deputy leader and the former health secretary did not support PIE but "didn't even try" to cut its affiliation to the civil liberties organisation they worked at for the sake of their careers.
Harman has said she has nothing to apologise for over the involvement of the National Council for Civil Liberties with the paedophile rights campaign but expressed "regret" that there had ever been a link between the two.
O'Carroll sat on an NCCL gay rights sub-committee in the late 1970s and said there had been no active attempt to remove him.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Really they didn't do much to oppose PIE's presence in my view because there were these other liberal forces, or radical forces, within NCCL.
"The support didn't come from Harman and Co but it was there. The Gay Liberation Front was very radical and at that time Harman and Patricia Hewitt couldn't just kick out PIE. Well, they could both try but they didn't even try and the reason they didn't try is they didn't want to rock the boat because their careers within NCCL depended on them not rocking the boat too much."
The former PIE chairman told the programme he never met Ms Harman but met Ms Hewitt briefly at a conference in Sheffield in 1978.
He said: "I spoke to her when we were just going up a floor or two in a lift and she was somewhat frosty.
"I said something to her, I think as a pleasantry, and she didn't take it that way. She said that I'd been rude to her afterwards, which I hadn't been.
"My impression was that she simply had great distaste for being in the same lift as me."
I'm off to the Clegg press conference now. I will post again when I'm there and I've had a chance to set up.
You can read all today's Guardian politics stories here. And all the politics stories filed yesterday, including some in today's paper, are here.
As for the rest of the papers, here's the PoliticsHome list of top 10 must-reads, here's the ConservativeHome round-up of the politics stories in today's papers and here's the New Statesman's list of top 10 comment articles.
And here are eight articles I found particularly interesting.
• Francis Elliott in the Times (paywall) says Ed Miliband is preparing to offer a referendum on the EU - but not necessarily by 2017.
[Miliband] will accept the need for a Europe-wide treaty change at some point to help fix the eurozone's structural problems — and will say this should be the moment Britain holds a referendum.
However, he is due to say that an automatic plebiscite by 2017, as offered by David Cameron, would damage British business as relations with the country's most important trading partners were thrown into doubt.
A source close to the party said: "Labour are preparing to say, 'We need treaty change. And we don't think it will happen by 2017. But when it comes we will have a referendum.' They will go a bit further than the Lib Dem position."
The plan is to bring Labour into line with the Lib Dem position, which is to hold an in-out referendum in the event of a significant transfer of powers to or from Brussels. The details are due to be announced in the next two weeks.
• The Financial Times (subscription) says Ladbrokes has suspended betting on Andrew Lansley being Britain's next European Commissioner following a string of bets being placed on the leader of the Commons getting the post.
• George Parker and Chris Cook in the Financial Times (subscription) says George Osborne is under pressure to cut taxes to offset the impact of a possible interest rate rise next spring.
David Ruffley, another member of the Commons treasury committee, said: "Some people think this is a political iceberg heading in our direction."
He said that Mr Osborne could argue that mortgage rates were likely to remain at all time lows even if there was a modest rise in the BoE's base rate before the election; he also wants the chancellor to announce new tax cuts.
"If there are to be mortgage rate increases, this makes the case for income tax cuts all the more compelling," he said.
• Daniel Finkelstein in the Times (paywall) says the Tories would be mad to rule out another coalition with the Lib Dems.
Yesterday it was being suggested that David Cameron was contemplating fighting the next election on a pledge not to form a coalition whatever the result. The suggestion was further being made that this was a bold commitment that would electrify the contest.
If by bold is meant ludicrous, and by electrify is meant throwing a toaster in your own bath, then I'm sure this is correct.
Whether the Conservative Party requires a coalition partner to form a Government will be determined by the election result and not by the Conservative Party.
• The Daily Mail says Tom Watson has called for a wider inquiry into the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
A Labour MP has demanded renewed and wider inquiries into the Paedophile Information Exchange amid fears that government files proving it received taxpayers' cash have been shredded.
An ex-civil servant has previously claimed the government gave money to the PIE – which called paedophiles 'ordinary, decent, sensible human beings' – during the 1970s.
Home Secretary Theresa May has asked Mark Sedwill, the permanent secretary at the Home Office, to investigate after details of the claims were passed on by Labour MP Tom Watson.
Last night Mr Watson welcomed the probe but also demanded a wider-ranging police inquiry into the PIE.
He claimed Scotland Yard's paedophile squad, which is running an investigation called Operation Fernbridge into claims that an establishment paedophile ring preyed on children in care in the 1980s, is 'chronically under-resourced'.
• The Daily Telegraph outlines new evidence about NCCL's links with PIE.
• Matthew Parris in the Times (paywall) has sympathy for Harman.
Being attacked by the Daily Mail is rather like being mobbed by bullocks when crossing a Derbyshire field. The standard advice is to take no notice but walk confidently through the herd, which, seeing you're unafraid, will shrink back. And (the standard advice continues) if they do run at you, run back at them, preferably waving a stick. They'll back off. Whatever you do (the advice concludes) don't run away or, emboldened, they'll run after and trample you.
Well, maybe. In retrospect, though, Harriet should have sprinted for the nearest wall and vaulted over it, apologising profusely. Still I feel just a scintilla of respect for the way she tried to take no notice.
• David Aaronovitch in the Times (paywall) says that, to understand the row about Harman, the NCCL and PIE, you have to remember that the 1970s were a time of "delayed moral panic about children, youth and sex".
If this blurry attitude towards the sexual exploitation of minors was widespread, there were organisations that were not shocked. One in particular. In the 1970s, the key element in the proposals it was making to reform the age of consent was, according to its leading spokesman, "the assertion that children should have some say in what they do with their own bodies. They should be free to decide, as a matter of right, whether or not they want a sexual relationship."
The spokesman was a former teacher and journalist called Tom O'Carroll and the organisation was the PIE. Now, after nearly 30 years of ChildLine and abuse scandals, his slippery elision is clear to us. His call for sexual rights for children is, in the end, a cover for adult sexual exploitation of children. And there — right there — is the awful, silly logic that led the right-on, rights-in crusaders in and around the NCCL to temporarily embrace the National Union of Child Molesters.
For the record, here are today's YouGov GB polling figures.
Labour: 39% (up 1 point from YouGov yesterday)
Conservatives: 33% (no change)
Ukip: 11% (down 2)
Lib Dems: 10% (no change)
Labour lead: 6 points (up 1)
Government approval: -27 (down 2)
According to Electoral Calculus, this would give Labour a majority of 74.
Yesterday we discovered that David Cameron has something in common with Politics Live readers (or at least the ones who post below the line every Thursday morning); they're all fed up with Nick Clegg. Cameron, apparently, is so exasperated by the Lib Dems that he is considering ruling out another coalition after 2015, even if he wins most seats but is short of a majority. Today we've find out what Clegg has to say about all this, because he is holding his monthly press conference.
After that there's lots on in the Commons. Here's the agenda.
9.45am: David Laws, the education minister, gives evidence to the Commons education committee about underachievement in white working class children.
10.15am: Nick Clegg holds his monthly press conference.
12pm: David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash at PMQs.
12.30pm: Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, makes an announcement about the future of Mid-Staffs NHS Foundation Trust.
Around 1.30pm: MPs begin a debate on the bedroom tax. It is on a Labour motion opposing the government's attempt to close the loophole that means people who have been living in the same place since 1996 are exempt.
I plan to focus today on the Clegg press conference, PMQs and the Mid Staffs statement. But, as usual, I will also be flagging up any breaking political news, posting summaries with a round-up of all the day's developments, and highlighting the most interesting political articles on the web.
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Former Florida coach Ron Zook will be named Tuesday as Illinois' 22nd head football coach, sources told The Associated Press Monday.
Zook's hiring will be announced at a 1 p.m. news conference, said two senior university officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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Zook was 23-14 with Florida and had some impressive victories, including two over Georgia, one over eventual national champion LSU last season and an upset of Florida State on Nov. 20. It was the Gators' first win in Tallahassee since 1986. That may have been Zook's final game with Florida. He has not said whether he will coach the Gators in a bowl game.
Turner was fired after Illinois had just one Big Ten victory in two seasons. Just three years ago, Turner led the Illini to their first conference title in a decade.
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Illinois will name Ron Zook its 22nd head football coach Tuesday, his brother Bob told The News-Gazette on Monday. An early afternoon press conference will be held at the Bielfeldt Building to introduce the former Florida coach.
"I'm excited. He's excited," Bob Zook said from his Ohio home. "I think it's a great opportunity. He's back home as we're concerned."
Zook will fly to C-U Tuesday morning from Florida with his wife, Denise, and Florida offensive coordinator Larry Fedora.


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CORCORAN: Far from the familiar white washed island villages and the chaos of Athens, there lies another very different Greece that few tourists ever see here in the mountains of Macedonia. This is home to Yiannis Boutaris, a member of Greece's most prominent wine making dynasty. He walked away from a life as a powerful industrialist after accepting the bitter irony that having built a fortune on alcohol, he was also an alcoholic.


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Strictly Come Dancing host Sir Bruce Forsyth has been acknowledged for his colossal career with a Guinness World Record.
The 84-year-old star, is to be included in the 2013 edition of the book for having the longest career as a male TV entertainer with a career spanning 72 years.
Also among those honoured in the new volume are BBC's Top Gear team who took the record for the world's most widely watched factual TV programme, with the show seen by audiences in 212 territories.
Sir Bruce is recognised for a TV career which began when he was aged just 11. And when he returns to our screens for the next series of BBC1's Strictly in little over a week, he will actually take the overall title for the longest career of a TV entertainer, surpassing former Golden Girl, US star Betty White.
He said of his inclusion in the new edition: "What a wonderful surprise, but what a shock - and it's all true."
Other new records include reformed band The Stone Roses whose comeback concerts became the fastest selling rock shows in the UK with 220,000 tickets selling out in 68 minutes.
Peter Kay was rewarded for the highest number of tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour, shifting 1.14 million tickets for his series of dates from 2010-11.
He said: "I'm extremely proud to have receiving such an honour. I never imagined that one day I'd be included in the Guinness World Records. Just goes to show that the lovely Roy Castle was right - dedication is exactly what you need if you want to be a record breaker."
Manchester United star Ryan Giggs has scored four records in the new edition of the book, including the most appearances in the football Premier League (598) and most Premier League winner's medals (12).
Commenting on his records, Giggs said: "To have my records in the Guinness World Records book, which I remember reading as a kid, is an amazing feeling."
Another newly included record holder is veteran Canadian music star Leonard Cohen, 77, who achieved the longest gap between top 10 UK albums. His 12th album, Old Ideas, went to number two 40 years and eight months after his previous top ten entry Songs Of Love And Hate.
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In English that would roughly translate to Happy Aidilfitri and apologies for all previous wrongdoings from us at HTNet.
I'm posting this from the office… yeah, my company didn't extend the Hari Raya holiday to include today as most banks and government offices do. But honestly, I don't really care. It's almost like a real holiday anyway. 90% of my colleagues are already gone for their holidays anyway which leave me pretty much with almost nothing to do 😀
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Luke Crawford is soccer mad. The trouble is, his encyclopaedic knowledge of football is not matched by his ball skills on the pitch. But Luke realizes there is a way to ensure himself a regular game: he can form his own team! This introduction to the series tells how the Swillsby Swifts formed.
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The Librarians: Season 3, Episode 5
The Librarians investigate a mysterious traveling carnival and discover how dangerous their collection of magical artifacts could be.
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The Pentagon is expected this week to announce steps to bolster the minimal legal rights of some 600 prisoners held at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, that will allow them for the first time to hear the specific charges against them and challenge the basis of their detention.
The review is, however, unlikely to satisfy critics of the camp, just north of Kabul. It will reportedly entail assigning military officials to each of the detainees to help to collect evidence and witnesses to support any case they may have to be freed. Those cases would then be submitted not to a court but rather a newly formed Detainee Review Board.
A leading Afghan human rights group that has been pressing for changes at Bagram, a former Soviet base, last night welcomed the reforms. "We support this and approve this," Lal Gul, chief of the Afghan Commission For Human Rights, said. "We are ready for any help and co-operation in this regard."
The detainees, who are mostly suspected Taliban members, reportedly began protesting in July against their absence of legal rights by refusing special privileges such as recreation time.
The US is preparing to upgrade its rickety facility at Bagram. Prisoners have had fewer legal rights even than those held at Guantanamo Bay. Some of them have been behind bars in Bagram for more than six years.
Critics have long castigated the US for violating international human rights standards there. Washington has typically responded the detainees are captives in an active theatre of war and must as a result be treated differently. Since coming to office, however, President Barack Obama has been reviewing all the "enemy combatant" detention policies. An outline of the proposed changes for prisoners at Bagram was submitted to the relevant committees of Congress for a 60-day review in July, sources said.
The review encompasses Mr Obama's pledge to close down Guantanamo Bay. Although he is technically committed to shutting that facility by 1 January 2010, very little progress has been made on deciding what to do with the detainees.
A lawyer for one of the Bagram detainees dismissed the new rules as "window dressing". Ramzi Kassem, a law professor in New York who has taken up the case of Amin al Bakri, a Yemeni detainee there, told the Associated Press: "These changes don't come anywhere near an adequate substitute for a real review."
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The Dallas Cowboys plan to move defensive tackle Josh Brent to the reserved non-football injury list, ESPN reports.
That would clear a roster spot for the Cowboys and allow him access to the team's training facility, where he could have contact with teammates and coaches.
Brent, who is out on $500,000 bond after being charged with intoxicated manslaughter in the death of teammate Jerry Brown on Saturday, is emotionally unable to play, a source told ESPN. Brent attended a memorial service for Brown, a friend of his since college, Wednesday. Brown's mother, Stacey Jackson, had asked Brent to sit with the family during the service, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.
"She's an amazing lady," Cowboys executive vice-president Stephen Jones said of Jackson. "They're an amazing family in general, the stepfather, the father. Amazing, amazing family. Obviously a lot of strength in terms of what they're about."
Brown was pronounced dead at a Dallas hospital after the car Brent was driving went out of control and flipped several times. According to the county coroner, Brown died from blunt force trauma to the head and neck. Brent suffered neck and wrist injuries. Witnesses who arrived on the scene shortly after the crash differ over whether Brent was spontaneously trying to pull Brown from the car, which was catching fire, or whether he was urged to try to help Brown.
In the wake of the accident, the Cowboys reportedly are discussing installing electronic devices in players' cars that would immobilize them if a driver is impaired. That would most likely require input from the NFL Players Association, but Cowboys consultant Calvin Hill told the Dallas Morning News the idea was under consideration.
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