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I have a reasonably good relationship with Iain Dale. We met for coffee this week, and might well work together on some things in future. So I’m no knee jerk Iain Dale hater. At the height of the e-mail furore (how long ago it seems…), Iain libelled Tom Watson in the National press. Iain apologised at

Iain Dale has posted a YouTube video explaining why lefties are so out of order for complaining about his post yesterday about the late Jack Jones. Dale used the post to point out his opinion of Jones’ shortcomings, and for this the Tory blogger has been accused of being insensitive. Whatever, Trevor. Criticising people in the

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