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wildcat strikers of "protectionism" and claiming they could turn the recession into a full-blown depression
adding that he suggested that protesters could go and work elsewhere in Europe if they were unhappy.
According to the Times
There are calls for a national boycott of filling stations run by Total, the French oil company, and plans to move the protest south by blockading the oil-fired Isle of Grain power station in north Kent which provides 3% of the energy needs of the National Grid.
Meanwhile the Mail says that
Senior sources close to the walkouts have disclosed that Gordon Brown was warned three weeks ago by Derek Simpson, the leader of the country's biggest union, Unite, that skilled British construction workers were 'deeply unhappy' about foreigners being drafted in to UK refineries and power plants.
Peter Mandleson makes the front page of the Observer but it is a different story as the paper reports that
A groundbreaking "people's bank", offering a full range of financial services and using the UK network of 12,000 post offices, is being promoted by Peter Mandelson, the business secretary.
The Times says that peers who avoid tax or have criminal convictions - such as Lord Archer and Lord Black - are to be expelled from the House of Lords in the wake of the lords for hire scandal.The paper says that
The reforms are being drawn up by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, in an attempt to restore the Lords’ battered reputation after last weekend’s revelations in The Sunday Times. He plans to enact the legislation necessary to expel them before the general election, which has to be held by May next year
The Mail looks at one of the peers involved in the scandal,Lord Truscott who it says has secret links to Soviet Russia.
The paper says that at the time of his
'love at first sight' account of how he met his Russian wife Svetlana in the former Soviet Union.addding that
Lady Truscott was an active member of the Communist Party and her father was a senior Red Army officer at a secret military institute connected to the Soviet equivalent of the SAS.
According to the Telegraph,Ministers are drawing up plans for a draconian ban on MPs having any outside earnings in the wake of a series of parliamentary scandals. The paper says
Harriet Harman, the Commons leader, has begun work on the proposals which could be included in a major package of constitutional reforms to be unveiled within months.
The Telegraph claims that
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, faces signs of an unprecedented mutiny within his own government that threatens to undermine his once unassailable authority,
The Independent reports that
Britain's rehab services are facing collapse. No fewer than 15 of the UK's 100 rehab centres have closed in the past 15 months, despite an increase in the number of people seeking help for addictions.
The Observer says that the country's leading fertility experts are to express serious moral and medical doubts about women freezing their eggs to suit their lifestyles and aspirations.
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