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Fraser Nelson wondered if Labour’s welfare reform proposals would cost it Glasgow East and critiqued the Tory plan to import US-style bankruptcy protections for failing firms.

James Forsyth looked at where the SATS scandal will go next and what Brown might offer the Unions for their support.

Sarah Standing recommended that we all cheer ourselves up by going to see Mama Mia.

 

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