Lead story

Benefit cap hits poorest families

by Daphne Liddle

THE CON-DEM Coalition last Tuesday succeeded in getting a parliamentary majority to cap most welfare benefits to a rise of just one per cent a year, no matter what the level of inflation, which is currently over two per cent. d.

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Assad charts a way forward

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar al Assad has called on outside forces to stop supporting the rebels battling to overthrow his Baathist-led popular front government.

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Editorial

A hard fight ahead

WE BEGIN the year 2013 with Cameron and Clegg, the two leaders of the Con-Dem Coalition “renewing their vows” like a married couple trying to pretend their relationship is not falling apart as disagreements about the economy, about Europe, about civil rights, House of Lords reform and a dozen other issues pile up, leaving us to wonder what the Tories and the Lib Dems ever saw in each other and how much longer this farce can go on.

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