There is a policy vacuum in Britain with austerity the only policy that its Government seems able to countenance.

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Huckabee's trip showed that the administration is not operating in a policy vacuum.

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Instead, the report does nothing to fill the policy vacuum that is being filled by an argument over what to do about the decade-old Bush tax cuts.

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The Observer's lead is that a series of leaked emails between key figures in UKIP reveals growing chaos at the heart of the party as it struggles to fill a policy vacuum just days before the local elections.

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But along with those benefits comes the great responsibility of not conducting monetary policy in a vacuum.

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Politics and public policy do not exist in a vacuum.

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America's immigration wars are expanding into the vacuum caused by the absence of a federal policy.

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