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Hadley Freeman David Walliams George Monbiot Paula Radcliff e Mehdi Hasan

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Golden girl PM throws Labour’s chief HeadlineKate Winslet triumphs at the Globes The biggest headline on the backing page is called the “main splash”. This is a serious story so no behind new union backer jokes are made in the headline. attacks Miliband royal yacht Patrick Wintour

STANDFIRST David Cameron has swung behind plans Unite boss says Labour leadership is for a new, privately funded royal yacht A standfirst is used that will double up as a university of the on course to alienate core support seas, and provide accommodation for to add detail that royalty in the ship’s stern. was not included in Patrick Wintour Balls believes he has to reassure an Cameron has endorsed the idea after Political editor electorate that his support for a short-term the headline lobbying from the higher education minis- Keynesian stimulus to kickstart growth ter David Willetts and the education secre- now does not mean that he thinks cuts tary Michael Gove. The idea, at one point The Labour party’s chief union backer are avoidable later. described by Gove as a gift from the nation today accusesBYLINE Ed Miliband of undermin- In remarks delivered in the knowledge to the Queen on her diamond jubilee, also ing his ownSometimes leadership, the writer’s disenfranchising that he was about to be attacked by has the backing of the Prince of Wales and the party’sjob coretitle orsupport where andthey leaving the McCluskey, Miliband delivered an uncom- Princess Anne, according to letters sent to country with all three main parties bent on promising message to Labour MPs at the prime minister by Willetts. using austerityare writing to save from capitalism. is their weekly evening meeting yesterday : Downing Street sources said the prime In anincluded. article Staff in the writers Guardian are , the Labour must be the party prepared to take minister regarded the idea as excellent, Unite generalalways secretary, credited. Len McCluskey, hard decisions in both good and bad times , and discussions have been held with launches a strident attack on Miliband and he said . “Every shadow cabinet will have Portsmouth city council for the yacht to Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, prompted to show how they can create longer-term be berthed in the south coast port. by the party leadership’s weekend deci- wealth, take on vested interest and make The £60m yacht has so far found £10m sion to endorse a continuation of the diff erent choices,” he added. in backing from fi nancial leaders in Canada government’s public-sector pay freeze. After insisting that Labour can be the and an unnamed £5m private donation, He suggests that their stance “chal- party for tough times, he reminded his as well as an off er by Foyles to contribute lenges the whole course Ed Miliband has MPs that the party failed in 2010 and must £500,000 for books for a library. set for the party, and perhaps his leader- succeed in 2015. USE OF COLour Cameron’s enthusiasm comes despite ship itself”. He also claims Blairites will But McCluskey says that Balls’s “sud- Every page of the Guardian a storm of protest yesterday after the seek to capitalise on their policy coup and den weekend embrace of austerity and the Guardian revealed ministers had recently come for Miliband himself, a path he says government’s public-sector pay squeeze is printed in colour. discussed taxpayers paying for the yacht “will lead to the destruction of the party as represents a victory for discredited Blair- A picture that is unrelated as a “present” to the Queen – prompting ism at the expense of the party’s core to the main sories on the critics to accuse the government of being Len McCluskey, supporters”. front page, such as this, is out of touch with the nation’s economic general secretary He saysBODYTEXT that when the public-sector priorities. of Unite, says the unions confront the government over the called a standalone. After the leak of a December-dated Labour party’s new pay freeze,The they main would “body” “ now of abe fi ghting There is often a double letter from Gove lobbying fellow cabinet approach leaves the Labournews frontbench story. Often as well” the . page photograph in the ministers for a royal yacht to the Guardian half the country He adds:only “It part leaves written the bycountry the with centre of the paper. on Sunday, government offi cials yesterday disenfranchised somethingreporter. like a ‘na Thistional text gov is ernment’ released further letters showing that min- consensusthe where, Guardian’s as in 1931, standard the leaders isters have been urging the prime minis- constituted and certain election defeat”. of the threebody big partiestext. The agree font on is a common ter to back the plan since September. The Up until now, criticism of Balls’s painful agenda of austerityeight point to Guardianget capitalism – be it plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear endorsement of the government’s clamp- ‘good’ or ‘bad’Egyptian. – back on its feet.” Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval down on public sector pay has prompted Balls argued in a Guardian interview base commander in Portsmouth. only attacks from unions not affi liated to and speech to the Fabian Society that he In the Commons yesterday Gove denied Labour. Unite, however, are the single wanted to put those out of work ahead of he supported public funding for the yacht, biggest funders of the party. the pay of those in work, but the Unite although the letter leaked to the Guard- McCluskey’s broadside represents leader dismisses the argument as the ian showed he did at one time see public the biggest union warning yet about the “hoary old fallacy that increasing the wages funding as the chief option. The education political direction of Miliband’s leadership of the low-paid risks unemployment”. secretary’s offi ce yesterday insisted Gove and shows the risks the Labour leader will He then argues: “The view that defi cit had, in an earlier letter, rejected the pos- face as he struggles to convince the elec- reduction through spending cuts must sibility of public funding. torate that the party is serious about the be a priority in order to keep the fi nancial Ministerial sources also conceded that necessity of spending cuts to reduce the speculators onside has been the road to Gove was concerned the diamond jubilee defi cit. ruin for Labour chancellors from Philip could be overshadowed by the London At the weekend Balls stressed that he Snowden to Denis Healey.” ≥ Olympics and he was anxious to promote could not, at this stage, promise to reverse He adds: “This is the last gasp of the celebrations for the Queen this year. a single government spending cut, even neo liberalism which led to 2008 and the Willetts wrote to Cameron in Septem- though he said he still opposed the way fi nal point on the arc of ‘new Labour’ poli- ber with details of a “future ship project in which the chancellor, George Osborne, Kate Winslet at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles, where she received an award for was cutting too far and too fast. 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Caption TURN Captions give a description of ‘We are terrifi ed’: the families putting their trust in the Lords Often front page a photograph or graphic. Often stories continue they include the photographer’s elsewhere in paper. ome people’s lives are al- look after as they get older and, she says and hasname. to beCAPTION watched every waking most unimaginably hard, now, “If I’d understood what the diag- minute from then on. As we talk, he stricken by bad luck. The nosis of the others meant, I wouldn’t sits for hours in a big woolly hat, peer- welfare state is there to mit- have had a third.” ing through his thick specs at a repeti- igate misfortune, or it was. But she’s not complaining – or at tive computer game that keeps him Emma and Chris Ford have least, she hasn’t until now. Their two- calm and happy. three severely autistic chil- bedroom, housing association home in Martyn, seven, manages in main- dren below the age of eight. Horsham, West Sussex, is cramped for stream school with a teaching assistant As the upper chamber �Emma was once a well-paid PA, but that three hyper active children. Rhys, six, is to help: he bounces about the sitting life is a world away, as both parents have in special school, a child with no sense room with the youngest, Caitlin. She preparesEDITION for STARS another heated given up work to care for the children of danger, on impulse throwing himself has just had a heart operation, wears debate on welfare reform, full time. They stand to lose £2,716 a down stairs, pulling furniture down on a hearing aid and , aged three, hardly Normally three different year in the welfare reform bill now being top of himself or hurtling into the road talks, so she starts in special school

*** talks to Pollyeditions Toynbee per night, but debated in the House of Lords. regardless of traffi c. Outside he needs soon. Life is a struggle, but a kind The Fords are remarkably resilient, a wheelchair. Barely speaking, he eats volunteer comes in for two hours a peoplecan be living up to five in fearor six of the but after her third child was born, with his hands, smearing food every- week so Chris and Emma can go for

1 2 A impendingeditions. Three disability stars cuts Emma suff ered a long bout of postnatal where and he needs Ritalin to manage at means third edition. depression. The children get harder to school. He wakes at 4am every morning Continued on page 15 ≥