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The Conservative Party should reveal the tax status of Lord Ashcroft
9 February 2010The Conservative Party – including David Cameron – has repeatedly refused to reveal the tax status of its deputy chairman, Lord Ashrcoft, who has funded the party for almost three decades.
This has continued even after Lord Ashcroft promised to return to the UK from his home in Belize and pay UK income tax by the [...]
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A well hung parliament would hopefully do some long term damage to our political system
22 November 2009I’ve thought for a while now that the result of the next general election could be a hung parliament, and I am pleased to learn that the Observer has caught up with me.
The reason the Observer has only now considered this outcome, whereas I have been at liberty to vocalise my belief that it is [...]
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We need more than political parties to succeed
16 March 2009In The Observer on Sunday, Andrew Rawnsley argued that David Cameron needs more than a clique of four to succeed. Taking as an assumption that the Conservatives will win the next election, he contended that if they are to succeed as a government they will need to involve a much larger number of ministers in [...]
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Democracy?
14 March 2007A report on the Channel 4 News this evening stated that government whips were arguing that the scale of the Labour MP ‘rebellion’ was due to the fact that the latter were aware the bill could not fail due to overwhelming Conservative support, and therefore felt free to vote with their conscience without fear of [...]
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