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• Spies at Work, Chapter 2: The Diehards' Hidden Hand
  ...and less than their fair share of ministers. The Conservative and Unionist Party has always been an uncomfortable coalition - not so much a "broad church" a ...ty's political agenda, and shaped and mobilised rank and file Conservative Party thinking to considerable extent. The Diehard's agenda dominated Conservativ
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• John McTernan
  ...inburgh) is the chief of staff to [[Jim Murphy]] and the [[Scottish Labour Party]].<ref name="McTernan"> [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/john-mcternan/25/2b0/35 ...the development of the Labour government's political strategy. The Labour Party paid his salary.
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• Michael Anthony Ashcroft
  ...on/9523901/David-Cameron-made-three-ministers-cry-when-he-sacked-them.html Tory donor Lord Ashcroft is given job in Government by David Cameron], ''The Tel ...s]] up to April 2000. He has made large donations to the [[People's United Party]] of Belize.
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• Written in Flames
  .The United Kingdom Company. is a phrase used by Tory MPs and anarchists al1ke to describe the comp11cated relationship between B ...'d be closer to say that Hanson's asset stripping is exactly what the '80s Tory ,government would reward. But when the government was trapped in the embarr
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• Scottish Enterprise: History
  ...at the time a CBI boss, advisor to the Thatcher government, Scottish Tory Party treasurer, Scottish Business in the Community and director of Grampian Hold ...sual tactic was adopted because after the disastrous fall in the Scottish Tory vote in the '87 elections, the Scottish Office was blamed for resisting the
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• Nigel Mobbs
  ...s shadowy fund; Chris Blackhurst profiles Sir Nigel Mobbs, overseer of the party's 'front' to tap industry and City firms for cash, ''The Independent'', 2-A
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• Carillion
  ...[[Shandwick]]. Shandwick, in turn, hired [[Colin Byrne]], a former Labour party press officer and sidekick of [[Peter Mandelson]]. In 2004, Carillion sold In 2000, Carillion made £41.9 million profit.(35) It is another long-time Tory backer that benefited from the rail sell-off. Like other rail privateers, C
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 4: The Economic League and the General Strike
  ...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 ...attitude towards the Labour leaders, "unusual even by the standards of the Tory "diehards"." {{ref|1}} According to ''Fifty Fighting Years'', by 1925:
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 5: Fellow Travellers of Fascism
  ...ions for countries throughout the World. This translation from nationalist party to supra-nationalist ideology was not accomplished by German and Italian in ...only talking about the niceties of the ballot box. Within the Conservative Party there was an organised, militantly anti-communist lobby preaching the sort
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 6: The Economic League goes to War
  ...eague]] was, after its first few weeks, an exclusively [[Socialist Workers Party]] organisation, or more recently the Anti Poll Tax Campaign was an exclusiv ...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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• Spies at Work, Chapter 7: Peace and Cold War
  ...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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• Spies at Work, Chapter 8: The Wilson Years
  ...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 ...the sort of policies which could not be hoped for from either a Labour or Tory government, which under the leadership of [[Edward Heath]] was felt to have
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 9: Spies at Work
  ...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 ...icially sanctioned "leaks" to the press. In an unsuccessful attempt to get Tory backing for his red scare tactics Wilson arranged for [[Ted Heath]] to be b
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 10: 'The Need for a Change of Direction'
  ...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 But at first the Tory "Revolution" had more leaders than troops. Over the next four years these l
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 11: The Fall
  ...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 ...ical Right had grown and changed dramatically after Thatcher's election as Tory leader. But the League's place in this network of commie-bashers and deregu
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• Spies at Work, Select Bibliography
  ==Independent Labour Party Information Committee== *Simon Haxey, "Tory MP",
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• Roger Scruton
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• ASDA Wal-Mart: Influence / Lobbying
  ...tive Party through former CEO [[Archie Norman]], who subsequently became a Tory MP and was a close adviser to William Hague. As Shadow Secretary of State f ...ng at the Labour Party conference in 2003. A significant proportion of the party's income comes from charging companies to come to events such as the annual
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• Countryside Alliance
  ...iety]] of London, colonel's son Richard Burge is also Member of the Labour Party. He is a trustee for the [[Television Trust For The Environment]] and of th :Tory peer Lord Mancroft was Deputy Chairman of the BFSS {{ref|19}}, and is chair
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• Airey Neave Trust
  ...ret Thatcher]]'s victorious attempt to become leader of the [[Conservative Party]]. He was rewarded with the post of head of her private office. He was then :"...the killing has spawned only conspiracy theories. Enoch Powell, the Tory-turned-Ulster Unionist, blamed the CIA. The motive, apparently, was that Ne
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