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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | yesterday
That is the headline story from a wide-ranging interview with the Shadow Defence Secretary in today's Daily Telegraph: British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as part of a Tory defence "revolution" being drawn up by Dr Liam Fox. The Shadow Defence Secretary told The Daily Telegraph that ending Britain’s 25,000 strong...
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Keith Nevols (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The new President of the European Union is the gloriously-named Mr Herman Van Rompuy , the Prime Minister of Belgium. On seeing his photo, my first thought was I didn ’t know Sven Goran Eriksson had gone into politics – I hope the EU do better than Notts County. Mr Van Rompuy ’s name, pronounced, I think, Rumpy , is a headline writer’s dream. Now if Ed Balls becomes Labour leader,...
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Henningham Family Press (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Hearing David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative Party conference, I felt the urge to liberate the avant-garde, existentialist poem that lay behind the surface, a hidden subtext: I want to get straight To the point. We all know What I want to talk about. Don’t get me wrong, I’m ready for that But I tell you this. I know that. I know about Liam Fox. We [...]
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This is an article by the Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne written in advance of his Dispatches documentary tonight on Channel 4. The link to the full pamphlet, which has extended links and material in the programme, is here . ----------------- Every year, in a central London hotel, a very grand lunch is thrown by the Conservative Friends of Israel. It is often addressed by the Conservative leader...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
50% of MPs in the shadow cabinet are Conservative Friends of Israel members, according to Channel 4's Dispatches Pro-Israeli organisations in Britain look set to see their influence increase if the Conservatives win the next election, a film scrutinising the activities of a powerful but little-known lobby warns today. At least half of the shadow cabinet are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By Stephen Newton On Tuesday, Margaret Thatcher honoured Dr Henry Kissinger with her eponymous Medal of Freedom somewhere in Knightsbridge , the exact location having been kept secret for security reasons. In return, Kissinger delivered the second Margaret Thatcher Lecture. Baroness Thatcher, the charity’s patron, endowed the Medal of Freedom, along with a lecture in her name, to the Atlantic...
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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
After a good meal, Tory MPs like to play a game: guess the first resignation from David Cameron’s Cabinet. For a party that loves plots and intrigue, this goes some way to making up for the fact that everyone will be on their best behaviour between now and the election. When it comes to who might walk on a point of principle, one name comes up more frequently than any other: Dominic Grieve,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Business secretary wins top accolade in Westminster awards ceremony Lord Mandelson was dubbed the "undisputed alpha male of the Westminster village" today after scooping one of the top accolades at a Westminster awards ceremony. The business secretary, whose surprise comeback earned him the best newcomer prize in last year's Threadneedle/Spectator contest, was this time named politician...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The party tipped to be the next British government is split on familiar lines: Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, and Michael Gove, the education spokesman, are staunch Atlanticists and supporters of military intervention — “neocons” to their critics, although...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In the same week that one of his newspapers in the UK published a private conversation between the Prime Minister and Jacqui Janes, the mother of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan, as a means of attacking the Prime Minister - which has been widely criticsed by both independent Tories and Labour people - Rupert Murdoch has backed controversial Fox News prensenter Glenn...
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British National Party (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Tory foreign affairs spokesman William Hague has admitted that David Cameron’s promise of “negotiating opt-out clauses” from the Lisbon Treaty cannot be achieved.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
You said on Friday that Gordon Brown was right to say that we cannot walk away from Afghanistan? But how can it possibly be right to stay? David Phillips, Canterbury We are in Afghanistan as part of a UN-approved international mission. We cannot afford further destabilisation of Pakistan and the region, or the re-emergence of terror groups using a failed state as their base. We need to understand that...
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A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Been reflecting on the weekend media's response to David Cameron's policy statement following the decision of the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus to complete the Lisbon Treaty's ratification process. Not sure what to think. Best column, in my opinion, was William Rees Mogg in the Mail on Sunday . Like me, he thinks the sheer deception which has been employed by the EU to avoid any sort of democratic...
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Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The Sunday Times reports today that two left-wingers, Claire Short and Tony Benn, have both expressed agreement with aspects of Conservative policy. Short accepted an invitation to speak to Conservative frontbenchers about how to improve the effectiveness of Foreign aid. She told the Sunday Times “The Conservatives have committed to keeping up the budget and keeping up the commitment on poverty...
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