Broken Vows (80 page)
- Mosley, Max,
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3
- Mossad,
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- Mottram, Richard,
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- Mowlam, Mo,
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- MRSA,
1
- Mubadala,
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,
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- Mubarak, Hosni,
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- Mugabe, Robert,
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- Mulgan, Geoff,
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- multiculturalism,
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- Murdoch, Elisabeth,
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- Murdoch, James,
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- Murdoch, Rupert,
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- Murdoch, Wendi
see
Deng, Wendi
- Nasser al-Missned, Sheikha Mozah bint,
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- National College for Teaching and Leadership,
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- National Health Service (NHS)
see
health
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE),
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- National Literacy Strategy (NLS),
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- National Lottery,
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- NATO: and Kosovo intervention,
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,
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,
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- and Iraq,
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- and Afghanistan,
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- Nazarbayev, Nursultan,
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- Neather, Andy,
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- Negroponte, John,
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- Neill, Patrick,
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- NETA,
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- Netanyahu, Benjamin,
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- Netherlands,
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- Network Enabled Capability programme,
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- New Deal,
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- New Statesman,
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- News of the World,
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- NHS Direct,
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- NICE
see
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- Nicholson, David,
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- Nigeria,
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- 9/11,
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- NLS
see
National Literacy Strategy
- Noon, Sir Gulam,
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- Normington, David: appointed permanent secretary at education department,
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- on TB and 9/11,
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- and education results and standards,
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- on racial segregation in schools,
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- excluded from discussions of radicalisation,
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- and Adonis’s changes,
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- moves to Home Office,
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- Norris, Geoff,
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- Northern Ireland
see
Ulster
- nuclear power
see
energy
- nuclear weapons,
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;
- see also
weapons of mass destruction
- nurses,
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,
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,
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,
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- Obama, Barack,
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- Oborne, Peter,
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- O’Brien, Mike: and immigration policy,
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- replaced by Barbara Roche,
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- and Hinduja affair,
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- and energy policy,
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- and car industry,
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- O’Donnell, Gus,
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- Office for National Statistics (ONS),
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- Office of Fair Trading,
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- Office of Public Sector Reform,
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- Ofgem,
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- Ofsted: announces many teachers unsatisfactory,
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- Labour desire to abolish,
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- TB to enhance powers,
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- Woodhead asks for greater powers,
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- Tomlinson replaces Woodhead,
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- Bell made chief inspector,
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- Margaret Brown declares results to be distorted,
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- literacy report,
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- blames teachers for poor results,
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- Gilbert appointed head,
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;
- see also
Bell, David;
- Tomlinson, Mike;
- Woodhead, Chris
- oil: fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest (2000),
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- TB’s ambition to make money from,
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- Oldham race riots (2001),
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- Olmert, Ehud,
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- Olympic Games bid,
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- Omand, David: and immigration policy,
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- and fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest,
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- on Birt’s ‘blue-sky’ report for Home Office,
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- considered for post of Cabinet secretary,
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- appointed security co-ordinator,
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- and Iraq war,
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- on Thompson,
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- and Hutton inquiry,
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- excluded from discussions of Iraq civil war,
1
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- and Butler inquiry,
1
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- and Afghanistan mission,
1
- Omnia Strategy,
1
- ONS
see
Office for National Statistics
- Operation Desert Fox (1998),
1
- Operation Salamanca (2006),
1
- Operation Sinbad (2006–7),
1
- Osborne, George,
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- Ouseley, Sir Herman,
1
- Overseas Policy and Defence Committee (OPX),
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,
2
- Owen, David,
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,
2
- Owen, Ed,
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- Oxford University,
1
- Page, Jennie,
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- Pakenham, Michael,
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- Palestine: Labour left wing’s attitude,
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- TB as envoy of the Quartet, looking for peace settlement with Israel,
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- Gaddafi funds education programmes,
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- Israel invades Gaza,
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- Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO),
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- parliamentary standards investigations,
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- Parris, Matthew,
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- Patel, Chai,
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- Patten, Chris,
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- Paxman, Jeremy,
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- Peach, Air Marshal Stuart,
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- Pearce, Nick,
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- pensions,
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- Peres, Shimon,
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- Perrin, Alain-Dominique,
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- Peston, Robert,
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- Petraeus, General David,
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- petrol, fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest (2000),
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- PetroSaudi,
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- PFI
see
Private Finance Initiative
- Phaco,
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- Philip Morris tobacco company,
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,
2
- Phillips, Trevor,
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- Phoenix Four,
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,
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- phone hacking,
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- Pinchuk, Victor,
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- PLO
see
Palestine Liberation Organisation
- Plowden Report (1967),
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- Pocock, Andrew,
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- Poland,
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- police: refuse to confront fuel-delivery lorry drivers,
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- Lawrence investigation,
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- slow-handclapping Straw,
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- and 7/7,
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- alienation of public trust through de Menezes shooting and kettling tactics,
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- investigate loans for peerages,
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- Portes, Jonathan,
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- Post Office,
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- poverty levels,
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- PowderJect Pharmaceuticals,
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- Powell, Charles,
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- Powell, Colin,
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- Powell, Jonathan: books by,
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- appointment by TB,
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- attitude to civil service,
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- role for Cabinet meetings,
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- on initial New Labour strategy,
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- importance to TB,
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- and Ecclestone scandal,
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- and foreign policy,
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- on TB’s government style,
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- shunted to Northern Ireland,
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- on prime ministerial power,
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- on TB’s first reshuffle,
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- on TB’s influences,
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- and Kosovo intervention,
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- on TB’s fight for extra NHS money,
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- on health policy,
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- on Byers’s appointment as trade and industry secretary,
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- belief in power of legislation,
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- relationship with Tebbit,
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- Millar calls for his dismissal,
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- and Iraq war,
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- attitude to Wilson,
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- and TB–Brown relationship,
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- and Mittal donation,
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- on TB and detail,
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- and first Iraq dossier,
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- advises TB re. Iraq invasion,
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- role in war plans,
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- visits USA with TB,
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- persistently undermines Hoon,
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- on the neocons,
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- and war briefings,
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- and health policy,
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- on consultants’ contracts,
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- on Brown’s ambition to be PM,
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- and Gilligan affair,
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- keeps military away from TB,
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- and row over military funding,
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- and loans for peerages scandal,
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- and Afghanistan mission,
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- on TB and education policy,
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- on TB’s achievements,
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- on TB’s survival strategy,
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- warns TB party support for him waning,
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- thanks TB’s team for support,
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- on Dannatt’s insurrection,
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- on TB and the succession,
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- helps TB with his commercial work,
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2
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- campaigns for TB to become EU president,
1
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- supports TB being given prize by Save the Children,
1
- Prashar, Baroness Usha,
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2
- Prescott, John: appointed to TB’s government,
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- and transport policy,
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2
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- attitude to Mandelson,
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- and defence review,
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- and energy policy,
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- chairs meeting about NHS,
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- untouched in reshuffle,
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- and Kosovo intervention,
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- attends Kyoto,
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- thirtieth year in Parliament celebrations,
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- avoids involvement in fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest,
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- punches protester,
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- support for Brown,
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- relationship with Cook,
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- attitude to foundation hospitals and tuition fees,
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- begins part privatisation of London Underground,
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- support for Brown,
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- at meeting to discuss education funding,
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- hosts dinner to hammer out TB–Brown handover deal,
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- thinks it likely TB will resign,
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- member of Cabinet committee to discuss health,
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- and Afghanistan mission,
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- attacks TB’s education policy,
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- affair with Temple,
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- retires from Cabinet,
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- Price, Lance,
1
- prisons,
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,
2
- Priština,
1
- Private Finance Initiative (PFI),
1
- Prodi, Romano,
1
- property
see
housing and property
- Pryce, Vicky,
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,
2
- public borrowing,
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- Purnell, James,
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- Purves, Libby,
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- Putin, Vladimir,
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