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Protect police funding, Brown to tell councils – 8am, March 1st

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Councils are considering plans to cut 170,000 public sector jobs in anticipation of large reductions in their budgets this year.

* The PM will today challenge councils to protect funding for local police.

* Read the full text of Gordon Brown’s speech to Welsh Labour over the weekend.

* Fewer than one in ten 11-25 year olds trust politicians, a new survey shows.

* After Daniel Hannan’s Tea Party this weekend, the Mirror says the Tories face a party split on tax and spend.

* Read the latest Rawnsley serialisations on how Iraq almost quit over Iraq.

* The YouGov tracking poll this weekend showed the gap between Labour and Tories down to two points…

* The Polls are now changing the election narrative, writes Mike Smithson at Political Betting.

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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