Broken Vows (81 page)
- Qatada, Abu,
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- Qatar,
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- Quartet,
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- Quinlan, Michael,
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- Raad, Firas,
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- race issues: racism,
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- Oldham race riots,
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- multiculturalism
- Race Relations Act (2000),
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- RAF,
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- Railtrack,
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- Rama, Edi,
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- Ramsbotham, David,
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- Rawnsley, Andrew,
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- Rees-Mogg, William,
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- Reid, John: background and character,
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- on Desmond’s funding of Labour Party,
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- blames civil service for lack of improvements in NHS,
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- sees self as potential TB successor,
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- appointed minister of health,
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- and health policy,
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- goes on attack in Gilligan affair,
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- urges TB not to hand over to Brown,
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- Downing Street’s approval of,
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- appointed defence secretary,
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- and Afghanistan mission,
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- appointed home secretary,
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- and immigration policy,
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- chances of the succession ruined by Brown,
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- Reid Group,
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- Reiss, Charles,
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- Reith, General John,
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- Reynaga, Jonathan,
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- Rice, Condoleezza,
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- Richard, Cliff,
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- Richard and Judy
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- Richards, General David,
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- Rickett, William,
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- Ricketts, Peter,
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- Riddell, Peter,
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- Rimmer, Catherine,
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- Robertson, George: appointed defence secretary,
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- and defence policy,
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- and Kosovo intervention,
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- Hoon replaces,
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- asks TB to increase British troop numbers in Afghanistan,
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- on Levy,
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- Robinson, Geoffrey: background and character,
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- books about,
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- at Treasury,
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- scandal surrounding,
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- and energy policy,
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- negotiates PFI deals,
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- Brown defends him in light of more scandals,
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- fall,
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- publishes memoirs,
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- magazine owned by him attacks TB,
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- suspended from Commons for parliamentary misbehaviour,
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- Roche, Barbara,
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- Rochester hunger strikers,
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- Rockefeller, Jay,
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- Rogers, Ivan,
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- Rogers, Richard,
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- Roma,
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- Romanian immigrants,
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- Rooker, Jeff,
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- Routledge, Paul,
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- Rover car factory,
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- Royal College of Nursing,
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- Rumsfeld, Donald: on likely length of Iraq war,
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- on likely length of Afghanistan operation,
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- attitude to UK,
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- still keen to remove Saddam,
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- and post-war planning,
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- announces UK support unnecessary,
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- and occupation of Baghdad,
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- concedes WMDs probably never existed,
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- orders US soldiers home,
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- Rural Payments Agency,
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- Russell, Justin,
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- Russia,
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- Rwanda,
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- Saban, Haim,
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- Sainsbury, David,
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- Salmond, Alex,
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- Sandline,
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- Sangatte refugee camp,
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- Sangin,
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- Santos, Juan Manuel,
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- Saraki, Bukola,
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- Sarkozy, Nicolas,
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- SAS: kill Serbian warlord,
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- TB considers sending to Zimbabwe,
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- Sierra Leone operation,
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- in Afghanistan,
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- snatch of two undercover soldiers in Basra,
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- Sassoon, James,
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- Saudi Arabia,
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- Save the Children,
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- Sawers, John,
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- Sawyer, Tom,
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- Scarlett, John: background and character,
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- and Iraq war,
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- relationship with Dearlove,
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- speculates strong likelihood of Saddam acquiring WMDs,
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- and first JIC dossier,
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- and JIC’s assertion Saddam has WMDs,
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- reaction to UN inspectors’ failure to find WMDs,
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- does not approve publication of second dossier,
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- and Gilligan–Kelly affair,
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- and Hutton report,
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- continues to hunt for WMDs,
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- appointed head of MI
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- and Butler inquiry and report,
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- briefs defence chiefs about Afghanistan,
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- Schiro, James,
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- Scholar, Michael: organises Beckett’s reception at DTI,
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- on Battle,
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- invites TB to visit DTI,
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- inspired by TB,
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- shock at Beckett’s exclusion of civil servants from discussions about nuclear power,
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- on Robinson,
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- Mandelson fails to tell about Robinson loan,
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- on Byers’s appointment,
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- and Post Office privatisation,
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- on the New Labour government,
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- schools
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education
- Schröder, Gerhard,
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- Schwarzenegger, Arnold,
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- science,
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- Scotland,
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- Scott, Derek,
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- Scott inquiry,
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- Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP),
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- Serbia,
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- 7/7,
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- Sharon, Ariel,
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- Shaw, General Jonathan,
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- Shea, Jamie,
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- Sheerman, Barry,
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- Sheinwald, Nigel,
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- Shelton, General Hugh,
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- ship-building industry,
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- Shipman, Dr Harold,
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- Shirreff, Major-General Richard,
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- Short, Clare: initial attitude to TB,
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- and defence policy,
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- and Kosovo intervention,
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- function in Cabinet,
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- and Iraq war,
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- hampers aid work in Iraq,
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- resigns,
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- denounces TB in wake of Gilligan affair,
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- Siemens,
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- Sierra Leone,
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- Sikora, Professor Karol,
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- Sikorsky,
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- Simon, David,
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- Simpson, Derek,
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- Simpsons, The
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- Sixsmith, Martin,
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- Skeet, Mavis,
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- Smith, Andrew,
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- Smith, Chris,
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- Smith, Godric,
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- Smithers, Alan,
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- SNP
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Scottish Nationalist Party
- Social Exclusion Unit,
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- Somalia,
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- Soros, George,
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- South-East Asian tsunami (2004),
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- Spence, Laura,
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- Spencer, Sarah,
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- Srebrenica,
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- Stern, Nicholas,
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- Stevens, Simon: helps Milburn with White Paper,
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- and NHS budget talks,
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- becomes TB’s health adviser in Downing Street,
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- and NHS Plan 2000,
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- on waiting times,
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- advocates Swedish health-care system,
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- and choice, 215, on TB and NHS costs,
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- and Milburn’s reorganisation,
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- and foundation hospitals,
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- on NHS,
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- Anderson advises re. NHS buildings,
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- leaves for USA,
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- Stevens report,
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- Stevenson, Dennis,
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- Stirrup, Sir Jock: attitude to proposed Afghanistan mission,
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- appointed chief of defence staff,
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- tells Browne army wants to quit Iraq,
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- and expansion of Afghanistan mission,
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- and Iraq,
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- relationship with Dannatt,
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- relationship with TB,
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- holds back from recommending Dannatt’s dismissal,
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- tries to dissuade TB from further wars,
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- Stoke Newington asylum-seekers,
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- Storer, Sharon,
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- Stothard, Peter,
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- Strategic Unit,
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- Strauss, Ofra,
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- Straw, Jack: appointed home secretary,
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- and immigration policy,
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- and Ecclestone scandal,
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- helps resolve fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest,
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- on Birt’s ‘blue-sky’ report for Home Office,
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- and Hinduja affair,
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- slow-handclapped by police,
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- appointed foreign secretary,
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- and Iraq war,
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- TB considers making chancellor,
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- TB treats with contempt,
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- sees self as potential TB successor,
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- chairs meeting to direct aid to Iraq,
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- Blunkett blames for immigration fiasco,
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- denies MI6’s operations in support of Gaddafi,
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- argues against alienation of Muslim community after 7/7,
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- demoted,
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- complains about Bremer,
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- Strozzi, Prince Girolamo,
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- Style, Vice Admiral Charles,
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- Sudan,
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- Summers, Larry,
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- Sumption, Jonathan,
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- Sun
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- Sunday Times,
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- Sure Start,
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- Sutherland, Peter,
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- Sutton Trust,
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- Swindells, Matthew,
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- Syria,
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