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The Financial Times reports:  
 
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:Mr Cameron’s aides have joked that Policy Exchange was now his “least favourite think-tank” after it published a report suggesting towns such as Sunderland and Liverpool were “beyond saving” and that their residents should move south.  The report was hugely embarrassing for the Tory leader. But it is a sign of these flexible ideological times that '''Tim Leunig''', its author, turned out to be a prominent Liberal Democrat.<ref>George Parker, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a8990ad0-7453-11dd-bc91-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=34c8a8a6-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in], Financial Times, 27 August 2008.</ref>
 
:Mr Cameron’s aides have joked that Policy Exchange was now his “least favourite think-tank” after it published a report suggesting towns such as Sunderland and Liverpool were “beyond saving” and that their residents should move south.  The report was hugely embarrassing for the Tory leader. But it is a sign of these flexible ideological times that '''Tim Leunig''', its author, turned out to be a prominent Liberal Democrat.<ref>George Parker, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a8990ad0-7453-11dd-bc91-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=34c8a8a6-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in], Financial Times, 27 August 2008.</ref>
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==Affiliations==
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*[[Policy Exchange]] &ndash; writer of some of PEx's reports<ref>George Parker, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a8990ad0-7453-11dd-bc91-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=34c8a8a6-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in], Financial Times, 27 August 2008.</ref>
  
 
==Contact, References and Resources==
 
==Contact, References and Resources==

Revision as of 19:38, 28 August 2008

The Financial Times reports:

Mr Cameron’s aides have joked that Policy Exchange was now his “least favourite think-tank” after it published a report suggesting towns such as Sunderland and Liverpool were “beyond saving” and that their residents should move south. The report was hugely embarrassing for the Tory leader. But it is a sign of these flexible ideological times that Tim Leunig, its author, turned out to be a prominent Liberal Democrat.[1]

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  1. George Parker, Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in, Financial Times, 27 August 2008.
  2. George Parker, Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in, Financial Times, 27 August 2008.