But with most of the public listening, or singing karaoke, elsewhere on this wet evening in Nottingham, the voices that really count are likely to come from inside the Westminster village and Labour's own ranks.

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Labour village councillor Steve Lydon said the new homes would link the villages - which are less than a mile apart - and added the area is not equipped for 150 new homes.

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Earlier this year several hundred homeless temporary workers set up a tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, across from the labour ministry and a few blocks from the Imperial Palace.

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This prompted Labour MP Ann McGuire to suggest that residents of the village of Balquhidder in her Stirling constituency might be better off living in Morocco, as they still had dial-up internet provision.

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