https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&feed=atom&action=historyPatrick Mercer - Revision history2024-03-29T09:31:50ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=242796&oldid=prevRiccardo Boscherini at 10:19, 12 December 20162016-12-12T10:19:02Z<p></p>
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</table>Riccardo Boscherinihttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=225060&oldid=prevRichard Bew at 18:27, 5 October 20152015-10-05T18:27:09Z<p></p>
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</table>Richard Bewhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=194920&oldid=prevMelissa Jones at 03:53, 2 May 20142014-05-02T03:53:08Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Patrick Mercer''' (born 26 June 1956) is a former Conservative politician and former Army Colonel. He was shadow minister for Homeland Security between 2003 and 2007 during which time he was quoted widely on security and terrorism issues.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Patrick Mercer''' (born 26 June 1956) is a former <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">UK </ins>Conservative politician and former Army Colonel. He was shadow minister for Homeland Security between 2003 and 2007 during which time he was quoted widely on security and terrorism issues.  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Melissa Joneshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=194919&oldid=prevMelissa Jones at 03:45, 2 May 20142014-05-02T03:45:13Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Patrick Mercer''' (born 26 June 1956) is a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">conservative </del>politician <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who has worked for the military </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the BBC</del>. He was shadow minister for Homeland Security between 2003 and 2007 during which time he was quoted widely on security and terrorism issues<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He left the Tory frontbench in 2007 after making allegedly racist comments and in May 2013 resigned  the Tory whip over a BBC ''Panorama'' programme alleging he had broken lobbying rules</del>.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Patrick Mercer''' (born 26 June 1956) is a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">former Conservative </ins>politician and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">former Army Colonel</ins>. He was shadow minister for Homeland Security between 2003 and 2007 during which time he was quoted widely on security and terrorism issues.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has also worked </del>as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a consultant </del>for the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">private security firm </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Blue Hackle</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref>House of Commons</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Register </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Members' Interests, [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/070730/memi19.htm MERCER, Patrick (</del>Newark<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)] ''(Registered 7 June 2007)''</ref> which was principally involved in Iraqi corporate protection.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">left the Tory frontbench in 2007 after making allegedly racist comments and in May 2013 resigned the Tory whip over a joint BBC ''Panorama'' and ''Telegraph'' expose which alleged he had broken lobbying rules.  A year later, in May 2014, the parliamentary standards watchdog released its report into the Mercer cash-for-questions scandal, describing it </ins>as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the worst case it had encountered. The Standards Committee had planned to suspend Mercer </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">six months; the longest such suspension meted out to an MP since 1947, with </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exception of former Labour MP </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Denis MacShane</ins>]], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who was convicted </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">criminal offences</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Biography==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Biography==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer went to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Private School </del>in Chester. He joined Sandhurst in 1975, suggesting that he spent a year there in-between school and university, after which he attended Exeter College, Oxford. He received an MA in modern history in 1980. Mercer then joined the British Army. In 1986 he was part of a military training team in Uganda and in 1988 he attended the Army Staff College in Camberley, where he was later an instructor between 1994-95.<ref>Debrett's People of Today, (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007)</ref> He also taught at the Army’s University at Cranfield. During the 1990s Mercer completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia, Canada and Tidworth.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer went to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">private school </ins>in Chester. He joined <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Sandhurst<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>in 1975, suggesting that he spent a year there in-between school and university, after which he attended Exeter College, Oxford. He received an MA in modern history in 1980. Mercer then joined the British Army. In 1986 he was part of a military training team in Uganda and in 1988 he attended the Army Staff College in Camberley, where he was later an instructor between 1994-95.<ref>Debrett's People of Today, (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007)</ref> He also taught at the Army’s University at Cranfield. During the 1990s Mercer completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia, Canada and Tidworth.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref>  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer has denied claims that he was in the [[Force Research Unit]] (FRU) while in Northern Ireland. He stated: "'I was never a member of the FRU. I have had plenty to do with them in the past, as with all the intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland, but I never served in the unit.'"<ref name="FRU2004McDonald">Henry McDonald, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/oct/17/uk.conservatives MP: 'I was not in covert army squad'], ''The Observer'', 17 October 2004.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer has denied claims that he was in the [[Force Research Unit]] (FRU) while in Northern Ireland. He stated: "'I was never a member of the FRU. I have had plenty to do with them in the past, as with all the intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland, but I never served in the unit.'"<ref name="FRU2004McDonald">Henry McDonald, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/oct/17/uk.conservatives MP: 'I was not in covert army squad'], ''The Observer'', 17 October 2004.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mercer has also worked as a consultant for the private security firm [[Blue Hackle]] <ref>House of Commons, Register of Members' Interests, [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/070730/memi19.htm MERCER, Patrick (Newark)] ''(Registered 7 June 2007)''</ref> which was principally involved in Iraqi corporate protection.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Melissa Joneshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=184239&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* Biography */2013-05-31T14:51:39Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Biography</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer went to Private School in Chester. He joined Sandhurst in 1975, suggesting that he spent a year there in-between school and university, after which he attended Exeter College, Oxford. He received an MA in modern history in 1980. Mercer then joined the British Army. In 1986 he was part of a military training team in Uganda and in 1988 he attended the Army Staff College in Camberley, where he was later an instructor between 1994-95.<ref>Debrett's People of Today, (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007)</ref> He also taught at the Army’s University at Cranfield. During the 1990s Mercer completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia, Canada and Tidworth.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> He left the Army and became the Defence Reporter for BBC Radio 4’s ''Today Programme''. He reported from a number of trouble spots, notably Kosovo. Upon being selected as the Tory’s candidate in Newark, he left the ''Today Programme'' and became a freelance journalist writing for the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''. He was also part of the [[King’s College London]] Team that had been sent to design defence policy for East Timor.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> In June 2003, Mercer was appointed to a newly created front bench position – Shadow Minister for Homeland Security - a position he held until March 2007 when he was demoted by [[David Cameron]] after saying that during his Army career he had seen “a lot of ethnic minority soldiers who were idle and useless, but who used racism as cover for their misdemeanours.”<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6431865.stm Profile: Patrick Mercer], BBC News Online, 8 March 2007</ref> He is now a member of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]].<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer went to Private School in Chester. He joined Sandhurst in 1975, suggesting that he spent a year there in-between school and university, after which he attended Exeter College, Oxford. He received an MA in modern history in 1980. Mercer then joined the British Army. In 1986 he was part of a military training team in Uganda and in 1988 he attended the Army Staff College in Camberley, where he was later an instructor between 1994-95.<ref>Debrett's People of Today, (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007)</ref> He also taught at the Army’s University at Cranfield. During the 1990s Mercer completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia, Canada and Tidworth.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mercer has denied claims that he was in the [[Force Research Unit]] (FRU) while in Northern Ireland. He stated: "'I was never a member of the FRU. I have had plenty to do with them in the past, as with all the intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland, but I never served in the unit.'"<ref name="FRU2004McDonald">Henry McDonald, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/oct/17/uk.conservatives MP: 'I was not in covert army squad'], ''The Observer'', 17 October 2004.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">According to the ''Observer'', Mercer said he had contacts with the FRU while serving as a staff officer at HQ Northern Ireland at Thiepval Barracks in 1990-91. He denied suggestions that he was one of the people in a group photograph of the FRU posted on the Cryptome website. he said: "Where the confusion arises is that Cryptome knows that I was in the Province and they have obviously put two and two together and made five."<ref name="FRU2004McDonald">Henry McDonald, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/oct/17/uk.conservatives MP: 'I was not in covert army squad'], ''The Observer'', 17 October 2004.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He left the Army and became the Defence Reporter for BBC Radio 4’s ''Today Programme''. He reported from a number of trouble spots, notably Kosovo. Upon being selected as the Tory’s candidate in Newark, he left the ''Today Programme'' and became a freelance journalist writing for the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''. He was also part of the [[King’s College London]] Team that had been sent to design defence policy for East Timor.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> In June 2003, Mercer was appointed to a newly created front bench position – Shadow Minister for Homeland Security - a position he held until March 2007 when he was demoted by [[David Cameron]] after saying that during his Army career he had seen “a lot of ethnic minority soldiers who were idle and useless, but who used racism as cover for their misdemeanours.”<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6431865.stm Profile: Patrick Mercer], BBC News Online, 8 March 2007</ref> He is now a member of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]].<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=184238&oldid=prevTom Mills: /* Connections with dubious 'terrorism experts' */2013-05-31T12:52:12Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Connections with dubious 'terrorism experts'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was also connected to another dubious terrorism expert called [[Simon Barrett]], a former advisor who set up a number of alarmist organisations promoting confrontation with Iran before spending a period working at the neoconservative [[Henry Jackson Society]]. Spinwatch uncovered evidence that one such organisation, [[Réalité EU]],  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was also connected to another dubious terrorism expert called [[Simon Barrett]], a former advisor who set up a number of alarmist organisations promoting confrontation with Iran before spending a period working at the neoconservative [[Henry Jackson Society]]. Spinwatch uncovered evidence that one such organisation, [[Réalité EU]],  </div></td></tr>
</table>Tom Millshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Patrick_Mercer&diff=184237&oldid=prevTom Mills: /* Connections with amateur 'terrorism experts' */2013-05-31T12:36:07Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Connections with amateur 'terrorism experts'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer went to Private School in Chester. He joined Sandhurst in 1975, suggesting that he spent a year there in-between school and university, after which he attended Exeter College, Oxford. He received an MA in modern history in 1980. Mercer then joined the British Army. In 1986 he was part of a military training team in Uganda and in 1988 he attended the Army Staff College in Camberley, where he was later an instructor between 1994-95.<ref>Debrett's People of Today, (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007)</ref> He also taught at the Army’s University at Cranfield. During the 1990s Mercer completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia, Canada and Tidworth.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> He left the Army and became the Defence Reporter for BBC Radio 4’s ''Today Programme''. He reported from a number of trouble spots, notably Kosovo. Upon being selected as the Tory’s candidate in Newark, he left the ''Today Programme'' and became a freelance journalist writing for the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''. He was also part of the [[King’s College London]] Team that had been sent to design defence policy for East Timor.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> In June 2003, Mercer was appointed to a newly created front bench position – Shadow Minister for Homeland Security - a position he held until March 2007 when he was demoted by [[David Cameron]] after saying that during his Army career he had seen “a lot of ethnic minority soldiers who were idle and useless, but who used racism as cover for their misdemeanours.”<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6431865.stm Profile: Patrick Mercer], BBC News Online, 8 March 2007</ref> He is now a member of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]].<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer went to Private School in Chester. He joined Sandhurst in 1975, suggesting that he spent a year there in-between school and university, after which he attended Exeter College, Oxford. He received an MA in modern history in 1980. Mercer then joined the British Army. In 1986 he was part of a military training team in Uganda and in 1988 he attended the Army Staff College in Camberley, where he was later an instructor between 1994-95.<ref>Debrett's People of Today, (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007)</ref> He also taught at the Army’s University at Cranfield. During the 1990s Mercer completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia, Canada and Tidworth.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> He left the Army and became the Defence Reporter for BBC Radio 4’s ''Today Programme''. He reported from a number of trouble spots, notably Kosovo. Upon being selected as the Tory’s candidate in Newark, he left the ''Today Programme'' and became a freelance journalist writing for the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''. He was also part of the [[King’s College London]] Team that had been sent to design defence policy for East Timor.<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref> In June 2003, Mercer was appointed to a newly created front bench position – Shadow Minister for Homeland Security - a position he held until March 2007 when he was demoted by [[David Cameron]] after saying that during his Army career he had seen “a lot of ethnic minority soldiers who were idle and useless, but who used racism as cover for their misdemeanours.”<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6431865.stm Profile: Patrick Mercer], BBC News Online, 8 March 2007</ref> He is now a member of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]].<ref>[http://www.patrickmercer.org.uk/type3.asp?id=96&type=3 About Patrick], www.patrickmercer.org.uk, (accessed 2 May 2008)</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Mercer and Whiteman.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Patrick Mercer with [[Dominic Whiteman]] outside New Scotland Yard]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Mercer and Whiteman.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Patrick Mercer with [[Dominic Whiteman]] outside New Scotland Yard]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' broadcast in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' broadcast in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' broadcast in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' broadcast in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">broadcast </ins>in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was also connected to another dubious terrorism expert called [[Simon Barrett]], a former advisor who set up a number of alarmist organisations promoting confrontation with Iran before spending a period working at the neoconservative [[Henry Jackson Society]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was also connected to another dubious terrorism expert called [[Simon Barrett]], a former advisor who set up a number of alarmist organisations promoting confrontation with Iran before spending a period working at the neoconservative [[Henry Jackson Society]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mercer was at one stage connected with a mysterious and probably amateurish terrorism research group called [[VIGIL]], which was behind alarmist reports on Muslim extremists by BBC 2's ''Newsnight'' and Radio 4's ''File on 4'' in November 2006. <ref>Andrew Alderson, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism]', Telegraph.co.uk, 19 November 2006</ref> The main figure behind [[VIGIL]] was its founder [[Dominic Whiteman]], who later set up a website called [[Westminster Journal]] to promote his ‘poetry and political philosophy essays’. <ref>[[Media:Dominicwhiteman.blogspot.pdf|PDF]] of dominicwhiteman.blogspot.com, created 20 November 2009</ref> The only other member named in press reports was [[Glen Jenvey]], who was later revealed to have fabricated terrorism threats and was arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. <ref>Abul Taher, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/31/glen-jenvey-arrested Glen Jenvey, man behind Sun's Sugar splash, arrested over religious hatred]’, ''Guardian'', 31 December 2009.</ref> (For more on [[VIGIL]], [[Dominic Whiteman|Whiteman]] and [[Glen Jenvey|Jenvey]] see Tom Mills and David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/5315-the-british-amateur-terror-trackers-a-case-study-in-dubious-politics The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics], Spinwatch, 26 August 2009.)</div></td></tr>
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