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Portrait of the week | 12 February 2011

The Portrait of the week

issue 12 February 2011

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, called for Islamist extremism to be countered by ‘a clear sense of shared national identity that is open to everyone’. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, he said that ‘under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives’. About 1,500 supporters of the English Defence League and 1,000 of Unite Against Fascism marched through Luton. Three Muslims serving life sentences went on trial charged with the attempted murder of a Bosnian war criminal held in Wakefield jail. The Queen caught a train from King’s Lynn to King’s Cross at a cost of £47.20, or £31.50 with a senior citizen’s railcard.

George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, suddenly increased the levy on banks to £2.5 billion a year, to raise an extra £800 million.

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