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Tories are the first tea party government: 8 in the morning – July 7th

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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* The Wall Street Journal has labelled the coalition the first “Tea Party government”, after the similarities to the US movement.

* A “new breed” of activist is fuelling the surge in Labour Party membership says Harriet Harman.

* The shambles of Alan Budd leaving the new OBR is “the end of Osborne’s honeymoon” says Larry Elliott.

* At least 10,000 nurses jobs will be cut according to the Royal College of Nursing.

* John Bercow wants to reform PMQs to make them less screechy.

* Political Betting ask if people were embarrassed to say that they were Labour voters in pre-general election polls.

* Bob Ainsworth told the Iraq war inquiry that the government “let down” the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq.

* And Labour ministers received a payout totalling in excess of £1 million after the general election.

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