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“Last year, Robert Oliver was released after serving only eight years of a 15-year sentence for the man-slaughter of Jason Swift, a young boy suffocated during a paedophile orgy.”
“George Barrow of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation believes that, even if the success rate is only 5 per cent, it is worth it to spare more victims.”
“In the UK, it is estimated that up to 36 per cent of sexual abuse is perpetrated by those under the age of 18.”
“The NSPCC runs 18 projects for young abusers, but little else is on offer.”
“For example, 160,000 children a year are considered for at-risk registers – only one- seventh are eventually included.”
“In Cleveland in 1987, paediatricians suspected that 121 children had been sexually abused – 32 were under three.”
“Two independent panels later decided that between 70 per cent and 75 per cent of the diagnoses had been correct.”
“Only after six inquiries did the truth emerge about abuse in children’s homes in Clwyd, which had affected 200 young people over 20 years.”
“Hague softened his earlier support for a lowering of the homosexual age of consent to 16”
“For nearly 30 years, the party’s headquarters has employed a disproportionate number of practising homosexuals”
“Lord Thorneycroft, when he was chairman 25 years ago, tried to clear some of them out”
“During boundary changes in the early 1980s, a constituency association rejected the application by a sitting MP who was both politically prominent and discreetly homosexual, even though he represented a portion of the new seat”
“In Cardiff Bay, there are 60 AMs.”
“Only one – the new First Secretary, Rhodri Morgan – has any experience of government.”
“Three party leaders have resigned: Alun Michael, Plaid Cymru’s Dafydd Wigley and the Tory Rod Richards.”
“But has it come too late for Wales’s 35 Labour MPs?”
“and now, finally, as the first year ends, the announcement of “a total review of the way the assembly works””
“In Cardiff Bay, there are 60 AMs. Only one – the new First Secretary, Rhodri Morgan – has any experience of government. He was a junior spokesman for energy, for Welsh affairs and for health and the environment, but all in opposition. Ther…”
“and now, finally, as the first year ends, the announcement of “a total review of the way the assembly works”, led by Rhodri Morgan.”
“in 1802 every hereditary monarch was insane.”
“obsessed in the year 2000 with a reactionary old woman”
“the rottenness of eighty years in gold.”
“a man who has just closed half a century”
“Two-thirds of our government is unelected.”
“Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich on 30 September 1938, he was driven straight from Heston aerodrome to Buckingham Palace – where, by royal invitation, he stood alongside the King and Queen on the balcony to acknowledge the cheers o…”
“in the summer of 2000, we can be absolutely sure that his mother is not exalted above all others”
“being the 21st century, at a time of fundamental constitutional reform, to be saddled with a 19th-century monarchy.”
“I am ten thousand times more so since I have seen what they are.”
“When the Queen last came to the United States, in 1991”
“phone calls to the Inland Revenue on 9 June and 23 June”
“power, honour, a good club with a fine library, free London parking and up to £150 a day in allowances.”
“We sat, for example, until 5.12am on 24 July”
“until 11.38pm on 25 July”
“until 11.50pm on 26 July”
“keeping the 30 peers who must always be available to prevent business collapsing”
“The Lords returns on 27 September”
“nearly a month before the Commons”
“They still have 33 more peers than we do”
“Lord Lipsey became a life peer in October 1999”
“about 200 people sat down to sausages, pasta, the local wine.”
“after its last issue on 27 July”
“prime minister of Italy for 18 months until spring this year”
“The 200 journalists and printers”
“in February 1924, by Antonio Gramsci”
“front page from May 1997”
“he won by just nine votes (less than 1 per cent)”
“the ratification of a new executive by more than 90 per cent of votes cast”
“the election of Zapatero represents the most important change in Spanish socialism for nearly 30 years”
“Gonzalez was president of his country for 14 years”
“Delegates at this congress have been talking excitedly of it being of equal historical importance to that which elected the boy Gonzalez in 1974”
“Before his election, a popular debate in Spain was whether the PSOE would be out of power for another four years, eight years or for ever”
“In a breathtakingly close finish, he won by just nine votes (less than 1 per cent) against his main rival, Jose Bono, the established “baron” of the party.”
“With the election of a new leader, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a 39-year-old lawyer and MP from the north of Spain...”
“Gonzalez was himself elected as the PSOE leader, against the odds and against a more established man, when he was just 32.”
“He went on to transform not only the party but, after the fall of General Franco, Spain itself. From being the young leader of a clandestine Socialist Party in the fascist years, Gonzalez was president of his country for 14 years...”
“As the first-ever PSOE leader to be elected by a secret ballot of congress delegates, and with the ratification of a new executive by more than 90 per cent of votes cast, he has the moral authority to drive through change in the party.”
“...there is hardly anyone left from the party leadership of three months ago. It is the first step on a road to recovery from the crushing election defeat in March this year, when the Socialists were reduced to a rump in the Spanish parlia…”
“Javier Solana, one of the delegates, said that while the Socialists were proud of their past, the election of Zapatero and his team meant that a new epoch had begun for the PSOE – “I think that you and your British friends did something si…”
“In his unscripted hustings speech to the congress (which undoubtedly won him the day), Zapatero was keen to emphasise points that will be familiar to members of the British Labour Party. These include the need to connect a modernised party…”
“He told delegates: “If the PSOE does not change itself, it can never aspire to represent with dynamism, dignity, optimism and energy the Spaniards of today and the future.””
“Before his election, a popular debate in Spain was whether the PSOE would be out of power for another four years, eight years or for ever.”
“the next general election will be in May 2001.”
“they relate to the period 2001-04.”
“The 2001 financial year begins in April 2001.”
“Sir Edward Heath’s “mark one” government (roughly the first half of his 1970-74 period in office)”
“the succeeding “mark one” Labour government (roughly the first two years of its 1974-79 period)”
“In 1980, the first spending white paper under Margaret Thatcher told us that public expenditure lay “at the heart” of Britain’s economic difficulty.”
“The record on capital expenditure points to the neglect of infrastructure expenditure by UK governments since the middle of the 1970s.”
“It was first popularised by the great J K Galbraith in the 1950s.”
“the 155th Speaker of the House of Commons.”
“£106,716 a year”
“John Prescott’s ten-year plan, published on 20 July, aims to give Britain a transport system to rival the best in Europe.”
“Richard Rogers has already signalled his frustration (as has the relevant parliamentary select committee) at the government’s failure to follow up the report of his urban task force, Towards an Urban Renaissance (1999).”
“It is the almost universal assumption that the next general election will be in May 2001.”
“they relate to the period 2001-04”
“Ontario MPs will vote themselves a 33 per cent pay rise this year”
“the minimum wage, unchanged since the early 1990s, remains at £3.30 an hour.”
“If the government wants something, the trigger is 5 per cent”
“if it doesn’t, it’s 20 per cent”
“three times the percentage required to trigger a ballot on whether we should have a directly elected mayor”
“the trouble with the constitutional argument is that it will not have gone away in five years, ten years, or even a hundred years: which is why, as the sceptics see it, ruling out entry for five years leaves the constitutional question pai…”
“Michael Portillo, refusing to acknowledge the absurdity of the policy, found himself skewered on the Today programme last month when asked why the Tories did not similarly qualify their support for the monarchy, to say that it, too, was fi…”
“before entry to the ERM in 1990.”
“did for them in 1997.”
“Labour would have won 436 seats under AV rather than the 419 it actually won”
“the Liberal Democrats would have had 84 rather than 46 MPs”
“the Tory ranks would have been yet further reduced from 165 to 110 seats”
“first past the post registered 21 per cent – that is, one seat in five was “wrongly” allocated – but AV would have raised this to 23.5 per cent.”
“The deviation from proportionality in 1998 was 20 per cent.”
“based on one-third of the popular vote.”
“100 per cent link between MPs and constituencies”
“3,500 Papuans were killed”
“Labour entered the 1997 election with a pledge to stick for two years to the previous government’s spending plans.”
“Gordon Brown could announce an increase in public spending of up to £30bn over three years”
“The newly formed Labour Party won 29 seats in the 1906 general election.”
“The building is now expected to come in two years late, at a cost of around £200m.”
“It is a project regularly dogged by a pack of outraged MSPs.”
“The second of May, 1997.”
“In the Sixties, the Gallup poll in the US used to find that around 80 per cent of voters had confidence in the government – today that figure has fallen to around 20 per cent," he says.”
“We know that the government has brought in an amazing 20 pieces of constitutional legislation in just over three years.”
