A “new politics” certainly.

THE Labour Party has left open the possibility of some form of student contribution to the cost of third-level education, saying it will be “looked at in the context of budgetary constraints.”

SCHOOLS should be given clear orders from Education Minister Mary Coughlan on restricting families’ bills for uniforms, books and other education costs, the Labour Party insisted.

HARRIET HARMAN moved to quash suggestions she was preparing to succeed Gordon Brown as British prime minister yesterday – insisting there were “no circumstances” in which she would run for the leadership.