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May 10 INLA Claim Responsibility for Terrorist Murder
Tebbit Backs Redwood, Brittan Backs Hague
Early Budget Expected
Leadership: Ask Ordinary Members
Heseltine out of Hospital
Backers Hope For Positive Tory Contest
Electorate "Rejected Euro-Scepticism"
Short "Rushed Off Her Feet"
Cook Defines Mission
"Cash For Answers"
Other news in brief
May 9 Sinn Fein Seeks Sign From Labour
Government Announces Changes To PMQs
PM Holds Key Euro Talks
Clinton to Visit London
Inquiry Over Sectarian Murder
Devolution Referendum By Autumn
New Unit To Raise School Standards
Senior Tory Calls for Party Involvement In Leadership Election
Heseltine Recovering After Operation
Cash For Answers
Purrfect Ending for Humphrey
Other news in brief
May 8 Bruton "Heartened" After Meeting with Blair
Blair Cabinet Gets To Work
Long-serving Tory MP Michael Shersby Dies
Ministers To Answer To Parliament Over Prisons
Doctors Warn Government Over Health Funding
Report Urges Food Safety Agency With Muscle
Archer Warns of Years In The Wilderness
Dorrell Signals U-Turn On Scotland
Short Predicts Equal Age of Consent For Gays
Ministers "Ready For Talks" On Homelessness
We're The Scottish Opposition Says SNP
Welsh Office To Target Economy and Public Services
Britain's First Lady Returns To Work
Other news in brief
May 7 Blair and Major swap jobs as Commons reassembles
New Labour feels "the weight of history"
Two more join fight to lead Tories
Lib Dems "willing to work with Labour"
Decimated Tory Shadow Cabinet Meets
Cook sees Britain as key European player
Mowlam gets Loyalist warning
Influential Lord Chancellor sworn in
BP chairman made minister
Hirst blames Tories for his downfall
News in brief
May 6 Brown Loosens Grip on Bank of England
Bank Move Surprises City
Howard and Redwood Join Tory Leadership Fight
Cook to Visit Paris and Bonn
Labour Could Face EU Challenge Over VAT
Blair To Meet Irish Premier
Cunningham Makes Food Safety His Priority
Labour Appoints Minister for London
Derek Foster Quits as Public Service Minister
Debate Opens On The Minimum Wage
More Government Ministers Named
May 5 Henderson Goes to Brussels
Mawhinney Expects Tory Leadership To Be Resolved By June
Britain Prepares To Sign Social Chapter
More Government Ministers Named
Mandelson Gets Top Job
CBI Says Raise Taxes Not Interest rates
Redwood A "Disaster" As Leader
1997 General Election Statistics
May 4 Tory Leadership Race Wide-Open
More Government Ministers Named
We May Be In For "A Bumpy Ride" Says Prescott
Hamilton Denies Reports of Financial Ruin
Harman To Shake Up Welfare State
Blair's First Cabinet
Redwood: "Likely to Run"
Elgin Marbles To Stay In Britain
Heseltine Suffers Angina Attack
Major May Be Out - But Humphrey Stays On at Number 10
May 3 Blair Finalises his Cabinet
Heseltine Out of the Running
Hague - Leadership Front-Runner
New PM Won't Live At No 10
Tories Told Not To Despair
Blunkett To Tackle "Can't Do Culture"
May 2 Blair becomes Prime Minister
Blair makes first Cabinet appointments
New ministers get down to work
Major quits as Conservative leader
Mid-June before Major successor chosen
Sinn Féin wins two seats
Trimble delighted by unionist performance
World leaders welcome Labour victory
Labour "ready for Euro-talks"
Bitter Hamilton rounds on Bell
Record number of women MPs welcomed
Relief for Tories in council elections
May 1 Labour sweeps to landslide victory
Blair pledges a new millennium
Disagreements among Tories surface
Portillo and Rifkind head list of Tory carnage
Liberal Democrats have record night
Conservatives eliminated in Scotland
Tories wiped out in Wales
Bell crushes Hamilton in Tatton
Goldsmith claims success
Scuffles at election of first Muslim MP
Election records and achievements
The things they said...
Election night news in brief

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