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  • ...being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party between 1917 and 1921. He was also Secretary of State for Air, 1921-22. ...he same year was elected a charter member of the cross-bench Other Club of political insiders, and was appointed a junior minister as Treasurer of the Household
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  • ...f the National Salvation Front from 1990 to 1992, of the Social Democratic Party from 1997 to 2006, and was the Minister for Defence from 2000 to 2004. He w ...ed by debating highly emotional subjects.”<ref>BBC Monitoring Europe, “Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring,” 16 May 2002, cited in Rowell, Andy
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  • ...n’s Excel Centre. Reporting the launch, ''The Observer'' called SCL a UK political communications consultancy firm, which it said was ''re-launching'' as a ps ...s, their CEO has stated: 'We used to be in the business of mindbending for political purposes....'<ref>[http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=37 Lobby firm goes to w
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  • ...Pattie''' is a former Conservative minister for defence procurement and a political lobbyist for the arms and security industries. ...1992, he was appointed vice-chairman (International) of the [[Conservative Party]] but continued his role as a non-executive director of the [[Fairey Group]
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  • ...to a police station Saturday night from Windsor Castle where the 700-guest party was in full swing... "He was arrested on a warrant in connection with traff ...rted that Gus Dur's family and inner circle of friends had hired a British political consultant, [[Nigel Oakes]], to launch a US$2 million public relations camp
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  • ...d issues which assist our understanding of the broader implications of geo-political factors on the global energy markets. ...[Paul Wilkinson]], Chairman of the [[Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence]], University of St Andrews
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  • ...order to safeguard its interests in all these fields. Bayer's economic and political clout enables the company to penetrate all major regulatory, standard-setti ...a full insight into Bayer's or any other major multinational corporation's political practices), it is impossible to give a complete overview of all groups, dea
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  • ...y operates like a high security prison for people coming to the UK seeking political asylum. The detention centre has been criticised repeatedly by campaigners ...tion application made by Chris Maile, and son Philip, from the local Green Party. In October of the same year, Philip Mail was hospitalised after a Group 4
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  • ...omic Forum]] bills itself as "the foremost global partnership of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society." It has 968 member organisation ...retton Woods Committee]] – A grouping of highly influential business and political figures promoting US leadership in international financial institutions. Me
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  • ...pen to be in Blackpool today, you can drop by Pfizer's booth at the Labour Party Conference. (For more discreet approaches to Downing Street, Pfizer retains Now the industry seems to have won a new battle. After many debates and political tussle to define patients’ rights George W. Bush managed to get a good de
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  • ...y operates like a high security prison for people coming to the UK seeking political asylum. The detention centre has been criticised repeatedly by campaigners ...tion application made by Chris Maile, and son Philip, from the local Green Party. In October of the same year, Philip Mail was hospitalised after a Group 4
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  • ...]], the Political Intelligence Department of the [[Foreign Office]], the [[Political Warfare Executive]], Director of the [[Economic League]] for nineteen years ...ondon and Cambridge, attending meetings of the recently formed [[Communist Party of Great Britain]].
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  • ...st in public, trying to distance itself from the Conservative and Unionist Party and establish itself as an non-aligned pro-industry lobby. Hall was one of ...party image, keeping clear of party politics and receiving no support from political funds."
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  • ...list ideology was not accomplished by German and Italian intellectuals and political activists alone and discussions by British sympathisers played a part in th ...case for a form of fascism which was appropriate in the context of British political and economic life.
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  • ...thus drawing together many who did not and would never support the CPGB's political programme, did not concern the Economic League or its paymasters. Economic ...peman]], who though not a Communist Party member at the time, did join the party a few years later. His story is told by historian [[Anthony Carew]]:
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  • ...Economic League and Aims of Industry Ltd., and is satisfied that these non-party, educational organisations are doing good work and have effective plans for :"With the opening of the Cold War the [Communist] Party resumed its familiar role as an instigator of industrial disruption, and th
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  • ...the Party leadership who could command support on both sides of the riven party. He was an undeniably able politician, with a clearly worked out and articu ...liant argued thesis of the ''War on World Poverty'' laid out the moral and political case for world development and a practical strategy for its achievement. Ce
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  • ...in industry, the press, the intelligence community or those in the Labour Party who had egged him on. It was the major turning point in Wilson's career, an ...t Party members said to be orchestrating the seamen's strike for their own political ends. In a debate in Parliament the following Wednesday Wilson provided mor
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  • ...n the wake of the defeat of [[Edward Heath|Ted Heath]] in the Conservative Party leadership election, and the resignation of [[Harold Wilson]] and his repla ...un up to the 1979 election the [[Economic League]] gave up its pretence to political independence and was actively canvassing for the new-look Tories.
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  • ...tion of this was that either they were taken in by the crude forgery, or a party to its production. The Select Committee then asked the League to reappear i ...hat Company Law only regarded as "political" donations directly to or from political parties. Subsequently Aims and the League encouraged companies to take adva
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