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Iain Duncan Smith gave an impassioned address to a packed Bennett Room to conclude Clare Politics programme of talks for the year. Speaking on the subject ‘Social Justice and the Future of the Conservative Party’. Below is an extract from his frank and uncompromising address.
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David Howarth’s address to Clare Politics provoked an entertaining and animated Q&A session covering the future leadership of the Liberal Democrats and the perennial issue of electability.
As a brief preamble to the first question David characterized the Conservative Party as broadly a party of manoeuvre rather than ideological substance, and the Lib Dem party [...]
Filed under: chrishuhne, davidhowarth, libdems, nickclegg, video on November 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As former govenor of Virginia, Doug Wilder was the first African American to be elected govenor of a U.S. State and remains the only African American to be elected govenor of a southern state. Doug Wilder currently serves as Mayor of Richmond, Virginia — a post to which he was elected by a landslide in [...]
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Philip Cowley, political scientist and blogger, gave a fascinating talk challenging the commonplace notion that today’s MPs are the most supine in history. Dr Cowley explained why our parliamentarians have never been so rebellious and what it means for the future of British democracy.
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Anthony Seldon, pre-eminent biographer of Tony Blair, painted a fascinating and unusually human picture of the former Prime Minister in his talk to Clare Politics.
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Peter Lilley drew a large and very engaged crowd for his talk on ‘Why Poverty Isn’t History’. Describing some of the dangers and pitfalls that face policy-makers in the field of international development, Peter Lilley suggested ways that aid could be made to work better and looked ahead to the futute with considerable optimism.
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Shami Chakrabarti spoke passionately about the danger posed to our way of life by calls to restrict liberty in favour of security in a talk that attracted a large audience and provoked a wide range of questions, from the sympathetic to the controversial.
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