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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of unfettered capitalism is causing unease among Shadow Cabinet members – in particular Ken Clarke, the Shadow Business Secretary. Oh, what a surprise. I guess that's the only reason Ken Clarke is still a Tory - Labour aren't as recklessly free market as he'd like (although they do try their best).
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Gove Environment Secretary – Simon Hughes Europe Secretary (a LibDem demand) – Charles Kennedy Constitutional Reform Secretary another LibDem demand) – Ed Davey Defence Secretary – Liam Fox Culture Secretary – Ken Clarke Leader of the Lords - Thomas, Lord Stratclyde Deputy Leader of the Lords - Menzies, Lord Campbell (Cranmer cannot be bothered to continue speculating...
PoliticalHackUK (Free subscription) | yesterday
I thought that Gordon Brown hit home at last week's debate on the Queen's Speech with his lines about the inheritance tax break promised by the Tories - their inverse Robin Hood, stealing from the poor to give to the rich. The typical constituency will have only five people who will benefit. The biggest group of beneficiaries will be in one area of the country-Kensington and Chelsea, which of course...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Let's hear it for hung parliaments. At the moment they are as fashionable as Wigan Athletic, the football team that managed to concede nine goals to Spurs at the weekend. The former Chancellor and current shadow Business Secretary, Ken Clarke, has warned that a hung parliament would be a disaster. Writing with the authority of a cabinet minister who served in the 1970s minority Labour government,...
A WORLD TO WIN www.aworldtowin.net (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... the Tories and New Labour. The cat was set among the pigeons last week by former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke, when he remarked: “I do think that in the middle of an acute national crisis a hung parliament would be one of the biggest disasters we could suffer … that would be a bigger danger than a Labour victory.” Clarke was, of course, referring to the massive state...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... the next general election. The Tory leader dismissed a warning from one of his senior colleagues, Ken Clarke, that it would be "a disaster" if the election produced no clear victor at a time of economic crisis. "I think frankly anything is better than another five years of this Labour government,” Camo said on the AM show. Deep inside the Brown bunker, the poll fuelled growing confidence...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
By , Political EditorPublished: 8:00PM GMT 22 Nov 2009 Conservative Party leader David Cameron Photo: PA It came as a new poll showed that Labour had cut the lead over the Conservatives to just six points, raising the prospect of no party being able to secure a majority at next year’s general election. Mr Cameron publicly disowned comments from Ken Clarke, his front bench colleague, for suggesting...
Keith Nevols (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... leaders for who they are not – John Major was not Michael Heseltine , William Hague was not Ken Clarke, Ian Duncan Smith was not Michael Portillo and David Cameron was not David Davis. In each case the obvious front runner was defeated by the more conciliatory option. As John Major said at his first cabinet meeting as PM, ‘who would have thought it'’ Not only in politics...
