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He said: "The last thing we need when you need some very difficult decisions taken for the budgetary health of this country is a hung Parliament and the endless dickering around between some spatchcock coalition between the Liberals and the Labour government staggering on, without giving this country the new start and the new medicine that I think it needs."

We learn that "After 99 years of dickering over the territory's borders, China has redrawn the map to absorb more than 250 square kilometres, about twice the size of Hong Kong island, into the mainland."