Mr Miliband accused the coalition of axing a Labour initiative which stopped some train firms from increasing fares by substantially more than the standard "inflation plus 1%" cap, but Mr Cameron said Labour had allowed greater rises when in power.

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My guess (and this is no more than my speculation, based on no evidence whatsoever) is that the Conservative standard bearer might be Greg Hands and Labour's candidate might be David Lammy.

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In 1931, as the Austrian bank Creditanstalt collapsed, pulling down the banks of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, a run on the German currency forced it off the Gold Standard in May, then the British Labour government struggled to maintain its currency peg - imposing austerity onto its own voters as the price.

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Responding to the government announcement, he said that Labour's version would have been a "gold standard" available to all pupils.

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Those pioneers founded the Labour Party because they wanted everybody to have a decent standard of living, a decent job, a decent home.

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And Deputy Stuart Falla said if the standard of living in the island was to continue at the same level, businesses would need specialist labour and Guernsey had to find the right balance.

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His paper in effect unpacks the standard theory, apparently challenged by the current facts, into two parts one about the labour market, and the other about the connection between the labour market and general price inflation.

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