Take Flight From the Dirty Tricks ; Michael Howard Needs to Move On From the Howard Flight Debacle to Convince Voters That the Tories Have Worthwhile Policies of Their Own
Evening Standard - London › March 29, 2005
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IT'S NOT been a great Easter weekend for Michael Howard: more a study in how to make a drama into a crisis, a gift he has fully exploited.
On Wednesday a littleknown Conservative figure, Howard Flight MP - "Envoy to the City" and deputy party chairman - suggested that there was more scope for spending cuts than the Tories had yet felt able to announce.See the full content of this document
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Take Flight From the Dirty Tricks ; Michael Howard Needs to Move On From the Howard Flight Debacle to Convince Voters That the Tories Have Worthwhile Policies of Their Own
A bit inconvenient for the leadership maybe, but basically a statement of the obvious on a par with calling the Pope a Catholic.
Nothing to trouble the mature mind too much, just the political equivalent of a red card. A period on the back benches would have done nicely, but th...See the full content of this document
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