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News in brief: December 2 2014

NUS launch lad culture campaign

Sexism: The National Union of Students (NUS) launched a new plan yesterday for the first national audit on “lad culture” and sexism within students’ unions and institutions.

Since its Lad Culture Summit in February, the NUS has been working to ensure that student unions take responsibility and tackle the lack of awareness about sexism on campuses.

It has now launched its lad culture pilot scheme for eight to 10 student unions, with the central aim of supporting unions to examine ways to tackle lad culture on campus.

Ashcroft admits poll was flawed

Politics: A Conservative pollster apologised to Ed Miliband yesterday after it emerged that it was incorrect to suggest support for the Labour leader had significantly dropped off in his own constituency.

Lord Ashcroft published findings last week that showed Mr Miliband’s 26-point general election lead in Doncaster North had been squeezed to 12 points.

But he admitted there had been an error in the way the research had been weighted.

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