By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
* The PM will miss PMQs today to continue talks to rescue Northern Irish power-sharing.
* Tony Blair will campaign for Labour during the election campaign, Peter Mandelson revealed yesterday.
* Labour will give Scotland radical new tax powers within a year of being re-elected, Jim Murphy says.
* Britain’s richest 10% of people are now 100 times better off than the poorest, a new report shows.
* A double dip recession is still a possibility, and is Labour’s “nightmare election scenario”, reports the Independent.
* President Obama will give his State of the Union tonight — Jonathan Freedland looks at what he needs to say.
* Cut the number of special advisers, and retrain permanent secretaries, senior civil servants recommend.
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