The government will scrap the funding guarantees under Labor's 2011 national health reform deal.
Alexander made clear the Liberal Democrats' deep unease at the prime minister's plan when he warned of the dangers posed by those who "put anti-European ideology ahead of our national interest".
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @gabriellechan Katharine Murphy deputy political editor Katharine was national affairs correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and had senior roles at The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.
George Osborne's proposed "cuts" in national insurance contributions will cost about £5.6bn, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Sheila Scott, chief executive of the National Care Association, which represents many smaller care home providers, said care costs could in many instances be approaching two-thirds of total fees because of the growing dependency of people entering residential care.
With events taking place at venues ranging from tiny, niche museums in Orkney and Norfolk to national giants such at the Natural History Museum and the V&A, the founding ethos of the festival is to celebrate the diverse and often quirky cultural landscape of Britain and to give a voice and platform to smaller institutions.
The projecting glassy liner, which drives a wedge between the Southbank and the National Theatre, is echoed 40 metres up in the air, by what the architects describe as a floating pavilion – a 60-metre-long glass box that will loom over the Hayward gallery.
She said: "His status as honorary president does not give him the right to hijack the Front National with vulgar provocations seemingly designed to damage me, but that unfortunately hit the whole movement".
Related: Le Pen family feud is a battle for the soul of the Front National – and France In an interview with the centre-right Le Figaro newspaper on Monday, Le Pen, who had threatened to leave the political ring "only at the end of the bout, whether victor or vanquished", seemed almost conciliatory as he said he would withdraw his candidature to avoid further damage to the party.
Take the National Children's Bureau finding that the gap in potential between children from middle- and low-income families is already evident among babies of 22 months.
