Showing posts with label Priti Patel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Priti Patel. Show all posts
Thursday, October 09, 2025

The Leave campaign – Nigel Farage included – called for more non-EU migration to Britain

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You'd never know it from the debate on immigration today, but: In 2016, the official Vote Leave campaign actively advocated for more imm...
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Monday, April 29, 2024

Jacob Rees-Mogg was hidden from voters during the 2019 general election campaign

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The prime minister's critics in the Conservative Party, reports the Telegraph , know what he needs to do: Tory critics are urging Rishi ...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Five reasons the right should be ridiculed for its lack of patriotism

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Embed from Getty Images The best decades I have lived through are the 1960s and the 1990s. One thing they have in common is that the Union J...
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Friday, April 16, 2021

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Lighting their bonfires in my covers

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If Lord Bonkers is afraid of anyone it's the Elves of Rockingham Forest. After all, no one in the Labour or Conservatives Parties is lik...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Ed Davey calls on Cressida Dick to resign

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Embed from Getty Images Following the Metropolitan Police's use of force to break up a vigil for Sarah Everard this evening, the Liberal...
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Friday, January 22, 2021

The uselessness of Boris Johnson's cabinet is a feature not a bug

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Embed from Getty Images Ed Davey says Gavin Williamson is the worst education secretary in living memory. He's right, of course. But th...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Flashman demonstrates "unintentional bullying"

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From the 1971 BBC adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays - Richard Morant as Flashman, Anthony Murphy as Tom Brown.
Sunday, November 01, 2020

Former Tory MP for Harborough condemns attacks on lawyers by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel

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Lord Garnier, who as Edward Garnier was Conservative MP for Harborough and Solicitor General in the Coalition government, has written an art...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The mint cake workers of Kendal

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Whether this is news from the past, present or future , you have to admit the old boy made the most of his time away from the Hall. Frid...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Michael Gove signed letter promising to maintain all EU payments to farmers

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Yesterday Michael Gove returned to the cabinet as environment secretary. Which makes an article on the Why Vote Leave website dated 14...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

An early general election looks the logical choice for Theresa May

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Embed from Getty Images A major Whitehall reorganisation. Accomplished plotters like George Osborne and Michael Gove sent to the...