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Rural merger unlikely before election
Press Review 19 November 2003
Farms adviser backs end to subsidies
Press Review 5 November 2002
Blair isn't a big thinker claims adviser
Press Review 8 February 2002
Blair too vain says key adviser
News Article 8 February 2002
Tony Blair is overly concerned with his day-to-day standing in the country, according to one of his key advisers.
NHS 'over-politicised' warns senior Labour figure
News Article 24 January 2002
The NHS is over-politicised, a senior Labour peer close to Downing Street warned on Thursday.
Reports outline rural crisis
Press Review 19 October 2001
Farmers should be entrepreneurs says Haskins
News Article 18 October 2001
Farmers have been urged to rely less on traditional markets and become more entrepreneurial by the government.
Watchdog blasts 'flawed and failing' Housing Benefit system
News Article 20 September 2001
The government's Better Regulation Taskforce has called for urgent reform to a "flawed" housing benefits system that "is almost impossible to understand".
Haskins to question banks over foot and mouth debt policy
Press Review 14 August 2001
Haskins predicts bleak future for farmers
Press Review 13 August 2001
Downing Street defends Haskins
News Article 13 August 2001
Downing Street has defended Lord Haskins, the prime minister's rural recovery co-ordinator, who is at the centre of a row over the future of farming.
Lord Haskins to stand down
Press Review 3 January 2001