Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink

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Hanning, James (18 September 2019). "David Cameron, For the Record, review: Memoir has plenty of revelations — and omissions". inews. Mason, Rowena (25 October 2016). "David Cameron signs deal to write tell-all autobiography". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 17 May 2019. The state has to be very cautious in using its power to mould cultural values. Comparisons with far-right groups on the day the EDL is mounting a demonstration is needlessly provocative.

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Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff offers guidance on how to be more persuasive and build an argument in your writing Walker, James (17 September 2019). "ITV's David Cameron interview watched by average of 3m viewers". Press Gazette . Retrieved 19 September 2019. He accused Wilson, who was legitimately ousted by Ted Heath’s Conservatives at the 1970 general election, of feeding the coup allegation to the press in 1981, and of being influential in his removal from the IPC board. Flood, Alison (24 September 2019). "David Cameron's memoir fails to top Tony Blair's in first week sales". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 September 2019.Writing in the Evening Standard, editor (and former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Cameron) George Osborne found it to be "one of the very best" political memoirs, saying "His book has been so hard for him to write. It's been a kind of purgatory for him, motivated by a sense of duty that Prime Ministers should explain why they did what they did, for the record. It's why it is so good." He clarified "I'm not neutral as Cameron is my friend." [16] The prime minister's comments were unhelpful. On a day when extremist groups of varying persuasions were descending on Luton, his words were open to misinterpretation at best, and at worst were potentially inflammatory. Freedland, Jonathan (19 September 2019). "For the Record: David Cameron's memoir is honest but still wrong". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 September 2019. Employment rose to a record 30.8 million but only by means of the creation of an involuntary army of the self-employed and zero-hours workers, accounting for the associated slide in productivity and living standards. The deficit was halved as a share of GDP but this was the very target that Osborne derided as dangerously profligate when he declared his original ambition to all but eliminate borrowing. The hole in the public finances made some degree of austerity inevitable (as it would have done under Labour) but the damage was exacerbated by experiments that ran free of their creators: the NHS reorganisation, free schools, Universal Credit and probation privatisation. Guardian Weekend columnist Tim Dowling shares tips on how to use your own life experiences in your writing

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As the row over the prime minister's remarks intensified, Tory co-chairman Baroness Warsi called for an apology from shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan after he accused Cameron of "writing propaganda for the EDL". Writing in the newspaper i, James Hanning, a biographer of Cameron, said "his book displays all the sensitivity and communication skills he showed in office... Cameron is said to have not enjoyed writing this book, but it doesn't feel that way. Despite its demands, he gives every sense of having enjoyed office. Until June 2016, that is." [11] Geoff Jacobs and David Standish from Interpath Advisory and Linda Johnson and Leonard Gerber of KPMG Advisory were appointed joint liquidators on Friday 31 st March. You can join the discussion at a Guardian Live event on 2 February - Is Thatcher more radical than Cameron? Find out more about Guardian membership and how to sign up. In his 1981 letter, King wrote: “As you must have noticed, I have recently been accused in some newspapers of planning a coup – perhaps military, perhaps not – to overthrow this government in 1968 … Unlike most newspaper stories this one had no foundation in fact.”Correspondence suggested Lady Walton was aware of the change to drug rules before they came into force, but it was said that she “rather lives with her head in the clouds”, and nothing was done.

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Matt, 16, a school pupil in Birmingham who was at the march said: "He believes what we believe to some extent."You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. The story of the Cameron era had unexpected twists. Members of the Bullingdon Club are bred to rule, so it was surprising they turned out to be so inept in the basic arts of government. Time and time again they stumbled into self-made disarray, from the attempt to sell publicly-owned woodland to the proposal, later scrapped, to increase the speed limit to 80mph. However, there are a far higher number of ‘unsecured creditors’ – businesses and individuals further down the established hierarchy of who gets what when a company goes under. As recovery takes hold, the indices of inequality resume their upward flight: the top 1% has flourished in the great recession. Social mobility depends on opening up the closed spaces of elite Britain but they remain, as they were, stuffed with ex-public schoolboys. Social policy has ossified, no longer attuned to families with young children. The government has shrunk or shut Sure Start children’s centres, abandoning a great evidence-based experiment in improving the life chances of disadvantaged families. The publishing supremo Cecil King wrote in 1981 to the then cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, after international newspaper reports that, along with Lord Mountbatten and Lord Cudlipp, he had plotted to overthrow Wilson’s ailing Labour government more than a decade earlier.

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An exclusive Q&A with Guardian writer Lucy Mangan, where she discusses her writing and offers guidance on finding sources of inspiration for a column His concern was contained in a memo to the then cabinet secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, in March 2000. Home Office figures at the time showed there were 6,680 asylum applications that month, up from 6,110 the previous month. When Conservative MPs discuss the next general election, they frequently assert that they “deserve to win”. They believe that their record merits the parliamentary majority they failed to secure in 2010. Such is the conviction with which they state their achievements – the halving of the deficit, a record number in employment, the highest-ever level of GDP – that even non-Tories are prone to ask whether the government’s opponents have exaggerated its defects.

The group’s directors and shareholders voted to wind the company up and appoint liquidators to realise the group’s assets, including shares in its subsidiaries. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. A British composer beloved by the royal family secretly sought state help to supply him with illegal quantities of controlled drugs, previously classified papers reveal.