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Campaigners are pressing Oxfordshire councillors to push the issue to the limits, by appealing against Prescott's ruling, forcing the final decision to a vote in Parliament. But few of Labour's new MPs seem likely to stick their necks out and vote to defy the deputy prime minister's Tory policy. the unemployed.
Blunkett has set out to antagonise teaching unions, promoting the hated OFSTED boss, Tory appointee Chris Woodhead [the subject of a unanimous vote of no confidence by the National Association of Head Teachers conference] to the forefront of his crusade for educational standards, while offering not a penny extra to enable «failing" schools tant future: the promised halt to hospital closures in London has been dropped. The only legislation on the NHS will be a Bill to encourage more private firms to invest in lucrative NHS development projects.
Meanwhile health authorities and Trusts, squeezed by last November's spending freeze, are contemplating massive cash deficits and draconian cuts, making a