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Confessions of a door to door fireplace salesman

Confessions of a door to door fireplace salesman

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MAIL On Sunday: “Give Me £20bn Or I’ll Bring You Down” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/s8dmSEroe8 — Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 23, 2018 The former fireplace salesman becomes another Tory making plans to oust Mrs May. Today’s Mail on Sunday reports that Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has threatened to sweep Theresa May from power in a bitter Cabinet row over military cuts. Furious Mr Williamson warned the Prime Minister that if she did not commit an extra £20 billion to the Ministry of Defence…

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Lady Chope and their daughter must be so proud of Sir Christopher

Lady Chope and their daughter must be so proud of Sir Christopher

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Is TMay having second thoughts about giving him a knighthood? One thing’s for sure – the MP for Christchurch who was knighted in the last New Year’s Honours, is going to get a lot more media coverage following his blocking on Friday of the private member’s bill to stop what’s known as upskirting. It is being argued on his behalf that this was more than about the issue itself but that he, and fellow CON MP, Phillip Davies took their…

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This interview is not of someone who will ever be Tory leader or Prime Minister, let alone the next one.

This interview is not of someone who will ever be Tory leader or Prime Minister, let alone the next one.

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For quite some time I’ve been advising laying Gavin Williamson for next PM and Tory leader, somebody once compared him to an incontinent puppy and his media performances seem to confirm that, wherever he goes there’s a great steaming pile of excrement not far behind. The next Tory leader needs to have good media skills so you know you’ve got major problems when you’re getting savaged by a dead sheep Richard Madeley. All of this stems from Williamson’s non (Prime)…

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On another planet

On another planet

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Rebel Tory MPs have lost a sense of reality if they think an election will improve their position Politics is supposed to be the art of the possible. In one sense that’s just a truism: that which happens is, by definition, within the bounds of the possible. However, this week’s shown up again that Bismarck’s aphorism is only true to a degree. There are plenty of politicians who are not interested in the possible but only in their own priorities….

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A 100/1 tip to be Theresa May’s successor

A 100/1 tip to be Theresa May’s successor

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Matt Hancock living his best life during #PMQs pic.twitter.com/hefCqW8Fua — James Davies (@jamesorharry) May 16, 2018 My twin strategies when it comes to betting on Theresa May’s successor is to lay the favourite(s) and back long odds (cabinet) ministers who appear to have potential. The latter has proven a very successful approach with the likes of Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid who were tipped and backed at odds of 100/1 and 60/1. So the latest addition to the latter list…

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The Conservatives must again make the case for private enterprise, profit, choice and competition

The Conservatives must again make the case for private enterprise, profit, choice and competition

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1929 Conservative poster The risk is an unwitting drift into a new left-of-centre consensus Some revolutions are begun by small steps; others are revealed by them. Of itself, Chris Grayling’s announcement this week that the government was bringing the East Coast Mainline back into public ownership, was nothing unusual. It is, after all, the third time in the 20 years of the privatised era that the East Coast franchise has failed. Furthermore, for the government, the return to state-run operations…

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If punters are right we could have passed peak Jacob Rees-Mogg

If punters are right we could have passed peak Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Ever since the local elections last week there has been talk of moving on from “Peak Corbyn”. Maybe? But what about “Peak Rees-Mogg? If punters are correct and the betting movements are indicative there is less certainty about they he will succeed Mrs May as next prime minister. The chart above shows the last 5 months of market moves on the Betfair Theresa May successor as prime minister market. As can be seen Rees-Mogg has been the favourite for several…

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Building the barricade. How the Conservatives are minimising their chances of picking up former Remain voters

Building the barricade. How the Conservatives are minimising their chances of picking up former Remain voters

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What are government policies for? If you were to ask the average member of the public, they would probably tell you that they were to set the best way possible for running the country on the particular topic at hand. Of course, that hasn’t always or even usually been the main point of government policies. In most countries in most eras, government policies have mostly been designed to benefit the interests of an elite. Kings rarely thought about the impact…

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