Utterly incredible. Over at ConHome, Alex Deane has highlighted something that is just utterly incredible – Team David Miliband's guide to hosting a "house meeting" in his honour. You really have to read the 6-page pdf to take in the full, fastidious horror of it all. But this tip for, erm, "building accountability" into the guest-list deserves pulling out: "Rem...
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Spectator on 19th Aug 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
David Miliband's guide to holding a soirée is hopeless. David Quantick has a few pointers for him .
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Telegraph on 22nd Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
This week Big Brother Watch, which I founded and is run by Alex Deane and Dylan Sharpe, released an election manifesto (to see the full document please click here) - a list of achievable legislative pledges that would go some...
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CentreRight on 16th Apr 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
The Sunday Times yesterday carried news of a civil liberties campaign being launched by the TaxPayers’ Alliance in October. Big Brother Watch's choice of staff doesn't bode well either. Elliott says it will be headed by Alex Deane, a barrister and former chief of staff to David Cameron, and “supported” by Dylan Sharpe, Boris Johnson’s press officer for his London ...
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LiberalConspiracy on 7th Sep 2009 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Here is Parliament's Additional Costs Claims Guide - known as the "John Lewis List" - in full. It is used by House of Commons officials to determine whether an expenditure claim submitted by an MP is reasonable. MPs can claim items up to £23,000 per year.
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Telegraph on 26th Jun 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
For anyone who has ever wondered how to go about hosting a house party, help is at hand in the unlikely shape of David Miliband.
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Telegraph on 22nd Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
"What has David Miliband ever achieved, apart from furthering his own career? If David Miliband was placed back on the backbenches, then I think he'd become the non-entity that he was before his accelerated promotion." I guess David Miliband isn't on Geraldine Smith's Christmas card list! The MP for Morcambe and Lunesdale certainly doesn't mince her words. Nor does her colleague, Bob Marshall-Andr...
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AndrewAllison on 31st Jul 2008 (via andrew-allison.blogspot.com)
David Miliband has raised much more cash than his rivals to be Labour leader, according to Electoral Commission figures.
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BBCPolitics on 8th Jul 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The list for the shadow Cabinet elections shows that no David Miliband supporter who was going to stand for the shadow Cabinet has decided not to run following Ed Miliband’s victory. It’ll be intriguing to see what the party balance of the shadow Cabinet is following these elections. There is an expectation that Yvette Cooper will top the poll now that David Miliband is not standing. D...
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Spectator on 29th Sep 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Labour leadership contender David Miliband has produced a guide on how to organise a house party, Stephen Smith follows it step-by-step and hosts his own.
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BBCPolitics on 23rd Aug 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Alex Deane (at CentreRight) tells of the plight of the Jedi… The full story on Wales Online: Now the three knights of the Jedi church who fought off the attacker are thanking their lucky stars that it wasn’t the real Lord of the Sith who jumped over a wall to strike them down. Barney Jones, his brother
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ConfusedConservative on 11th Sep 2008 (via confusedconservative.wordpress.com)
