Press, politico and blog reaction to the Policy Exchange’s Cities Unlimited report has been quite extraordinary. The Guardian today was particularly wretched, producing a big special article extolling the North (if you really think it’s so great, why did you leave Manchester then?) and quoting David Cameron extensively (audio here): “This report is rubbish from
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QuaequamBlog on 14th Aug 2008 (via theliberati.net)
Last night, St. Thomas’ Hospital played host to an eagerly anticipated debate organised jointly by the left and right think-tanks Progress and Policy Exchange, with the motion “Has David Cameron Changed the Conservative Party for Good?” On the panel, Policy Exchange co-founder Michael Gove and Fraser Nelson (political editor of the Spectator) to put the case for the motion, while...
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Patriccus on 4th Aug 2008 (via patriccus.blogspot.com)
Labour’s Karen Buck has hit back at claims by David Cameron that the Living Wage is Conservative policy and that Boris Johnson introduced it in London, warning that the “Tories have not changed and cannot be trusted to raise family living standards”. In an article for The Guardian today David Cameron said: “The one progressive new
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LabourMatters on 9th Apr 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Poor old Alan Duncan might have to survive on emergency rations. The Guardian reports that David Cameron is planning to cut ministerial pay if the Tories win the next election. Here are the details: ‘David Cameron is planning to make his ministers take significant salary cuts if he forms the next government, senior sources have told the Guardian. The Conservative party high command have calc...
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Spectator on 14th Aug 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
The Policy Exchange - "David Cameron's favourite think-tank" - may not be his favourite think-tank today. The publication of a report decrying regeneration of some Northern cities and seeming to call on people to migrate to the South-East is, as Cameron himself said, "insane". The timing of it appearing in the media - on the day Cameron starts a tour of Northern cities - couldn't be wors...
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BlaneysBlarney on 13th Aug 2008 (via donalblaney.blogspot.com)
Iain pointed out yesterday that Policy Exchange had become David Cameron's least favourite think-tank (as opposed to his favourite) after it published a report suggesting that regenerating the north of England was a waste of time and that Northerners should move to the south instead. Unsurprisingly, with David Cameron currently undertaking a tour of the North West and West Midlands, the ...
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JonathanIsaby on 14th Aug 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
I do not believe for one moment that David Cameron and his mob really want to do anything about divorce, and I think that it is very telling that they have placed a story saying that they do in the Cameron-sceptical Daily Telegraph rather than in the Cameron-loving Guardian or on the Cameron-worshipping BBC. But here is what could and should be done about divorce by anyone who really was of such a...
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DavidLindsay on 17th Nov 2008 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)