The Country Wants Kenneth Clarke -- So Why Don't the Westminster Tories?
Spectator, The; London › August 05, 2009
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There is no room here to give more than a cursory summary of the tirade of abuse that, after a period of shocked silence, descended on the head of the absent Clarke. Cries of 'completely idle', 'unforgivably shambolic', 'split the party down the middle on Europe', ' wrong on Iraq', 'selling tobacco to the Third World' and, in a loud Scottish accent, 'Och, young [David Cameron] is a much better man' reverberated round the table.
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The Country Wants Kenneth Clarke -- So Why Don't the Westminster Tories?
At the worst moment in Labour party fortunes, some point in the mid-1980s, a Labour politician is said to have emerged from yet another resounding election defeat unrepentant, declaring: there must be no compromise with the electorate.
There was something admirable about this remark. The politician who uttered the phrase had doubtless entered ...See the full content of this document
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