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Paul Richards Articles

Memo on … Europe

Dear minister of state for Europe, Congratulations. Or should I say felicitations, gratulation, felicitaciones or complimenti? Welcome to one of the worst jobs in the Labour government. It’s awful for two reasons. One is the relentlessness of the travel. Constant...
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The Tories: From Winston Churchill to David Cameron

The assumption of the founders of the Labour party 114 years ago was that the existence of a party of labour, representing a social and economic class which constituted the majority of the population, would naturally assume electoral dominance. Instead, Labour’s...
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22 years on: remembering 1992

For those of us who lived through it, the election held on 9 April 1992 had a profound impact on our politics. Labour entered the campaign ahead in the polls. At the very least, a Lib-Lab coalition was on the cards. In 13 Tory years we had been through two major...
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Memo on … decentralisation

Congratulations on your appointment as the new minister for decentralisation. We have just been elected on a ticket of ‘power to the people’, so your job is one of the most important in the government. First, there is confusion as to what decentralisation actually...
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