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Page last updated at 22:39 GMT, Thursday, 4 June 2009 23:39 UK

Osborne: Government 'falling apart'

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has repeated the Tory call for an election saying that "the country is now entitled to express its opinion".

Mr Osborne was reacting to the resignation of Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell who has left the cabinet and called for Gordon Brown to step down.

READ MORE: PM told to go as minister quits

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