Articles tagged with 'Stephen Pound'
Last words
Richard Holbrooke's last words were 'You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan.' Today our Foreign Secretary tried to dumb down debate.
Hague had promised monthly reports on the war. The first ones were oral with the chance for backbench MPs to question the Foreign Secretary. Today's report was [...]
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Madness in the Commons
PMQs were even more eagerly anticipated than usual today, given the incendiary allegations published in the Observer on Sunday, the flames of which had been fanned by Alistair Darling’s assertion on Sky News that No 10 had “unleashed the forces of hell” against him in 2008 for daring to predict [...]
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Kerry's Guide to PMQs
Here's today's running order. Expect Cameron to get in a 'forces of hell' gag which will be met with not-at-all faked hilarity from the Tory backbenchers and over-exuberant thigh-slapping from Sven. Stephen Pound, if we get to him, will by contrast be genuinely funny. Clegg might well go on the [...]
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