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Gordon Brown steps in to try to stop BA staff strike – 8 in the morning, March 15th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Gordon Brown has intervened personally in the British Airways industrial dispute in an attempt to avert a walkout by 12,000 cabin crew next weekend.

* Every rape victim should have a specialist adviser to support them after an attack, a major review in England and Wales has recommended.

* The funeral of Michael Foot will be held today in North London.

* Alastair Campbell is playing the role of David Cameron in the TV debate rehearsals, reports the Times.

* Gordon Brown is set to stay on as Labour Party leader whether the party wins or loses the election, according to the Times.

* The obsession with swing voters is strangling politics, writes Jackie Ashley – we need a more proportional voting system to end it.

* Last night’s ITV “Cameron informercial” was TV hell, writes Simon Hoggart.

* Radical political magazines are under threat, according to the Guardian.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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