Showing posts with label Michael Howard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Howard. Show all posts
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Sunak should not resign as Tory leader after he loses the election

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He has not, God knows, been much of a leader, and it's not even certain that he will be returned for Richmond and Northallerton next wee...
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Sunday, April 02, 2017

Michael Howard is an alien

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Embed from Getty Images How do we account for his desire to launch a war with Spain, that strange accent and his belief that priso...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Boris Johnson and the collapse of British power

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Embed from Getty Images So Boris Johnson is the new foreign secretary. Our relations with other countries are now in the hands o...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Simon Hughes on the Tory and Labour arms race on prisons

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#456631330 / gettyimages.com Speaking to a CentreForum and Prison Reform Trust event today Simon Hughes said: The sad reality i...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Kenneth Clarke should have become Conservative leader in 1997

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Kenneth Clarke stood down today after a remarkable 42 years in front-bench politics. If the Conservative Party had known its own best inte...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Plane Crazy: The case against the expansion of Lydd Airport

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Friday, March 04, 2011

Why the Barnsley Central by-election was bad for everyone

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If you read the day's blog posts, whenever a political event takes place it turns out to have been good for everyone. Let me try to prov...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

Calder on Air: Jeremy Paxman is Steerforth

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My column from today's Liberal Democrat News. I am told my set was working beautifully in the repair shop earlier this week. I shall pic...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Michael Howard and the UFO

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I see this story has made the morning papers. See the Guardian for an example. May I respectfully point out that I discussed it in October ...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Michael Howard and the Lydd UFO

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The news that the captain of an Alitalia airliner reported a close encounter with a brown missile-shaped UFO over the Kent town of Lydd in ...
Friday, January 20, 2006

So on message it hurts

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Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . Waste not I fear for Hazel Blears. The other day she admitted to doubts about t...
Friday, November 25, 2005

Sit back to enjoy the fun

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Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . "You'll get letters," said the editor. Teasing Tony A Tory leader...
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Friday, July 15, 2005

The week after the week before

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Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . Pause for Thought It has been the week after the week before. On Monday the Com...
Friday, May 13, 2005

The last Election Points

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Next week my Liberal Democrat News column will spontaneously regenerate to become House Points again. Lessons to learn It’s post mortem tim...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Vote Liberal: Get Liberal

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Here is today's Election Points column from the estimable Liberal Democrat News . Gone to the blogs When Labour supporters run out of ar...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

The dog whistle strategy

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Here is Friday's Election Points from Liberal Democrat News . Sorry for the delay in posting - I have been in Shropshire. I even saw the...
Thursday, April 14, 2005

Tory confusion over education

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Michael Howard, reports the BBC, has pledged to put phonics at the heart of teaching in schools: Mr Howard said repeated studies had shown ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Michael Howard on immigration

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The policies the Tories are putting forward on immigration prove two things. The first is that they do not expect to win the forthcoming gen...
Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Michael Howard and purple sheets

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Continuing David Hemmings week, this report from the Daily Telegraph of his death last year reveals that Michael Howard is a great admirer...
Friday, October 08, 2004

Do the Tories have a death wish?

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Michael Howard has told the Liverpool Daily Post that: I would love to win seats in Liverpool and other big cities in the north, but we ...