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Tories consider cutting disability program

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 22:16 by surajdogra

London -- British Conservative Party leader David Cameron is proposing changes that would force 500,000 disability recipients to return to work, The Times of London said.

The switch would immediately save about $40 per week per recipient as it shifts a portion of those collecting disability benefits to job seeker status. Cameron said unemployment was "one of the most serious things we face as a country," The Times reported Monday.

"If we don't deal with it, it is not just bad for those people who are unemployed now, there is a danger that short-term unemployment becomes long-term unemployment and builds up massive problems for our families and for our country in the future," Cameron said.

British Conservative Party leader meets Indian CEOs

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 14:51 by preet_20

London, June 16: The man tipped to be the next prime minister of Britain met with key Europe-based CEOs of Indian companies Monday, and promised to make Britain more business-friendly if his party is elected to power.

David Cameron, leader of the opposition Conservative Party that is leading ruling Labour in a string of opinion polls, met members of the India Group - an alliance of the largest Indian companies in Europe.

Also present at the meeting were Conservative heavy weights Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague and Shadow Business Secretary Ken Clarke and the Europe-based CEOs of Tata, ICICI, Wipro Technologies, Dabur, Polaris Software, Tata Consultancy Services, IFGL Monocon, Godrej and Wockhardt.