Broken Vows (82 page)
- Taçi, Rezart,
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- Taliban: identified as threat in wake of 9/11,
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- Western attack,
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4
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5
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- fighter claims asylum in UK,
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- and British troop deployment to Afghanistan,
1
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- in Helmand,
1
,
2
,
3
- taxation: 2002 and 2003 Budget changes,
1
,
2
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- 2007 Budget changes,
1
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- climate change,
1
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- personal,
1
,
2
,
3
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- petrol,
1
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- stealth taxes,
1
,
2
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- tax credits,
1
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3
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- Taylor, Ann,
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- Taylor, Matthew,
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5
- Teach First,
1
- teachers
see
education
- Tebbit, Kevin: helps draft TB’s foreign policy framework,
1
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- reduced status,
1
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- relations with Hoon, the military and Powell,
1
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- and defence cuts,
1
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- excluded from war plans,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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- calls for further discussion of the war,
1
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- on TB’s weakness,
1
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- and aid work in Iraq,
1
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- on lack of WMDs,
1
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- and Gilligan–Kelly affair,
1
,
2
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- testifies at Hutton inquiry,
1
,
2
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- excluded from discussions of Iraq civil war,
1
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- and row over military funding,
1
,
2
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- relationship with TB,
1
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- reaction to TB’s pledge to send more troops to Afghanistan,
1
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- attitude to further involvement in Afghanistan,
1
,
2
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3
,
4
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- on Sheinwald,
1
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- Jeffrey replaces,
1
- Temple, Tracey,
1
- Tenet, George,
1
,
2
- terrorism: 9/11,
1
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- Muslim radicalisation,
1
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2
,
3
,
4
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- Madrid bombings,
1
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- 7/7,
1
,
2
,
3
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- detention
of
suspects vote,
1
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- Afghanistan mission as means of reducing,
1
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- liquid-based bomb plot foiled,
1
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- Iraq war linked to rise,
1
- Thatcher, Margaret: downfall,
1
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- TB’s copying of,
1
,
2
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- red box work,
1
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- education policy,
1
,
2
,
3
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- attitude to the military,
1
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- health policy,
1
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- and climate change,
1
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- attitude to MI
1
,
2
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- leadership skills,
1
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- legacy,
1
- Third Way,
1
- Third World debt,
1
- Thompson, Nick,
1
- Thompson, Wendy,
1
,
2
- Thomson, Peter,
1
- 3G licences,
1
- Tiomkin, Avi,
1
- tobacco advertising,
1
- Tomlinson, Mike,
1
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2
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3
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4
- Torpy, Air Marshal Glenn,
1
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2
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3
- Townsley, Barry,
1
- Toynbee, Polly,
1
,
2
- trade and industry: Beckett’s effect at department,
1
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- DTI and Mittal,
1
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- effect of Brown’s introduction of competition,
1
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- ministerial changes,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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- New Labour policy,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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- see also
energy
- trade gap,
1
- trade unions,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
- Trades Union Congress (TUC),
1
,
2
- Transferring Community Services,
1
- Transforming Community programme,
1
- transport: fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest (2000),
1
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- New Labour policy,
1
,
2
- Trident,
1
- Turkey,
1
- Turnbull, Andrew: on TB–Brown relationship,
1
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- on TB’s Messiah complex,
1
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- on TB’s relationship with civil service,
1
,
2
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- on TB and government,
1
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- and immigration policy,
1
,
2
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- and Iraq war,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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- appointed Cabinet secretary,
1
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- and foundation hospitals,
1
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- on Powell,
1
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- on Manning,
1
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- on Dearlove,
1
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- investigates mechanics of handover of power should TB resign,
1
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- on NHS targets,
1
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- and aid for Iraq,
1
,
2
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- excluded from discussions of Iraq civil war,
1
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- on Butler inquiry and report,
1
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- TB asks to deliver twenty targets for public services,
1
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- on TB’s character,
1
- Turner, Adair,
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2
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3
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5
- Turner, Ruth,
1
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3
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- Tymms, Professor Peter,
1
- UI Energy,
1
- Ulster,
1
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2
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3
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5
- Unison,
1
- United Arab Emirates,
1
,
2
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- see also
Abu Dhabi
- United Nations: and Bosnia,
1
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- and Iraq,
1
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- and Afghanistan,
1
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- and Iraq war,
1
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2
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3
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- resolution 1441,
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- inspectors fail to find WMDs,
1
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2
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- and plans for post-war Iraq,
1
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- second resolution sought,
1
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2
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- second resolution and legality of war,
1
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- TB fails to gather support for UN vote,
1
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- Iraq mission HQ bombed,
1
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- and Palestine,
1
,
2
- University for Industry,
1
- USA: foreign policy under Clinton,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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- California energy blackouts,
1
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- Bush and TB meet,
1
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- 9/11,
1
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- build-up to Iraq war,
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2
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3
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5
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- lack of plans for post-war occupation,
1
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2
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3
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- takes final decision to invade,
1
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- UK influence waning,
1
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2
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- neocons announce UK support unnecessary,
1
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- invasion of Iraq,
1
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2
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- and aftermath of Iraq war,
1
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2
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- TB’s glory trip to,
1
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- Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry and report on WMDs,
1
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2
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- Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition,
1
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- calibre of US commanders in Iraq,
1
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- hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan,
1
,
2
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- in Afghanistan,
1
,
2
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- questions UK withdrawal from Iraq,
1
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- in Iraq,
1
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- TB continues as loyal supporter,
1
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- 2008 banking crisis,
1
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- and Israel–Palestine peace settlement,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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- funding for the Quartet,
1
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2
- Utilities Act (2000),
1
- Vadera, Shriti,
1
,
2
- Vaz, Keith,
1
,
2
- Verhofstadt, Guy,
1
- Vietnam,
1
,
2
- Vietnam war (1954–75),
1
,
2
- Vučić, Aleksandar,
1
- wages, minimum wage,
1
- Walker, Anna,
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2
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3
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- Walker, General Mike: background and character,
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2
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- and Iraq war,
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2
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3
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4
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5
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- TB wants him to replace Boyce,
1
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- struggles to get money for army and aid in Iraq,
1
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2
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- opposes sending troops to Baghdad,
1
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- visits Iraq and reports back to TB,
1
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- relationship with Jackson,
1
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2
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- meets with Abizaid,
1
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- fails to push TB for long-term Iraq goals,
1
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- finds access to TB increasingly difficult,
1
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- threatens to resign if military funding not increased,
1
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- too much power vis-à-vis Iraq,
1
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- TB consults about sending more troops to Iraq,
1
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- and TB’s pledge to send more troops to Afghanistan,
1
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2
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- reaction to suggestion of withdrawal from Iraq,
1
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- and Afghanistan mission,
1
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2
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- replaced by Stirrup,
1
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- complains to TB about Bremer,
1
- Walker, Tim: and immigration policy,
1
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2
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- Wall, General Peter,
1
- Wall, Stephen,
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2
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3
- Wanless, Derek,
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3
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- Ward, David,
1
- Warner, Norman,
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2
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3
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5
- Warren, Rick,
1
- Wataniya,
1
- Watson, Tom,
1
- Watt, Peter,
1
- weapons of mass destruction (WMDs): and TB’s first bombing raids on Iraq,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- TB still obsessed with,
1
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- assume new importance in TB’s mind in wake of 9/11,
1
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- as focus of ‘war on terror’,
1
,
2
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- as justification for Iraq war,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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- the first JIC dossier,
1
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2
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3
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- Saddam’s spokesman says destroyed,
1
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- UN passes resolution 1441,
1
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- as TB’s excuse,
1
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2
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- UN inspectors fail to find,
1
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2
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- doubts about existence grow,
1
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2
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3
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- war does not uncover them,
1
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2
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- still not found,
1
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2
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- Gilligan–Kelly affair,
1
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- Hutton inquiry and report,
1
,
2
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- Kay announces their definitive non-existence,
1
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- TB continues in denial about,
1
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- Gaddafi surrenders his,
1
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- Butler inquiry and report,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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- US Senate Intelligence Committee report,
1
,
2
;
- Chilcot inquiry,
1
,
2
- Webster, Philip,
1
,
2
- Webster, Rob,
1
,
2
- Wegg-Prosser, Ben,
1
,
2
- Weinberg, Mel,
1
- welfare: Brown’s increasing expenditure,
1
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2
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3
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- dependency growing,
1
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2
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3
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- and immigrants,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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- ministerial changes,
1
,
2
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- New Deal,
1
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2
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3
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- New Labour policy,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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- pensions,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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- tax credits,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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- winter fuel payments,
1
- Welland, Colin,
1
- West, Admiral Alan,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
- West Bank,
1
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2
- Whelan, Charlie,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
- Wicks, Malcolm,
1
,
2
- William, Prince, Duke of Cambridge,
1
- Williams, Michael,
1
- Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury,
1
- Wills, Michael,
1
- Wilmshurst, Elizabeth,
1
- Wilson, Brian,
1
,
2
- Wilson, Harold,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
- Wilson, Richard: at Home Office,
1
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2
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- selected as Cabinet secretary,
1
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- TB ignores advice,
1
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- and welfare policy,
1
;
- more problems with TB,
1
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- tries to negotiate Robinson’s resignation,
1
;
- on TB and health policy,
1
,
2
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- on Mandelson’s loan from Robinson,
1
;
- ‘Modernising Government’ White Paper,
1
;
- and TB’s first reshuffle,
1
;
- on TB’s personal agenda,
1
;
- and forces of conservatism speech,
1
;
- avoids involvement in fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest,
1
;
- relationship with TB worsens,
1
;
- and Hinduja affair,
1
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- and Iraq war,
1
,
2
,
3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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- and TB–Brown relationship,
1
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- on TB’s slipping self-confidence,
1
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- and energy policy,
1
;
- retires,
1
,
2
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- on TB’s character,
1
- Winston, Professor Robert,
1
- WMDs
see
weapons of mass destruction
- Wolfowitz, Paul,
1
,
2
,
3
- Women’s Institute speech,
1
- Woodhead, Chris,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
- WorldCom,
1