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“The idea of a British court of law convening in a third and independent country is quite unprecedented and was originally mooted in 1994 by Robert Black, a professor of law in Edinburgh.”
“The burden is 19p per citizen per week.”
“the backlog of 100,000 unresolved cases.”
“The ports would be closed in April 2000 to honest refugees as well as economic migrants.”
“fines of £2,000 a passenger.”
“half the world will be at Dover.”
“between a third and a half of asylum‑seekers.”
“The six months that Straw says it will take to judge an application? The two years that it takes in reality?”
“some 15 young helpers in matching imperial purple fleece jackets”
“the 22 million quid she stole”
“There are 25 marginal seats in London, so I expect a positive working relationship.”
“On 22 September last year, over 160 towns and cities in France, Italy and Germany closed parts of their centres to cars for the day”
“British buyers were being overcharged by 10 per cent”
“regular Sundays introduced recently in more than 140 Italian towns and cities”
“It was, they like to say, the Foreign Secretary who, at a meeting in London with Madeleine Albright in December 1997, persuaded her to accept the idea of a third country trial and then had to hold his breath while she sold it to the Attorn…”
“The British Empire left us a country with 85 per cent illiterates, two engineers and 12 doctors. When I left office, we had 9 per cent illiterates and thousands of engineers and doctors. I left office 13 years ago. Then our income per capi…”
“The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 parcelled out Africa to European powers, without regard to natural boundaries or ethnicity, and planted some of the long-term seeds of conflict on the continent.”
“Dr Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, will speak at the Jubilee 2000 Nyerere Tribute at Westminster Central Hall, London, 19 April at 7pm.”
“Mwalimu Nyerere, who died in 1999, and to continue his fight for justice and peace in Africa.”
“Four years ago, I came to London to launch the Jubilee 2000 campaign, calling for the cancellation of debts of the poorest countries.”
“an anonymous Ministry of Transport official in the mid-1960s.”
“In last year’s Scottish elections, minor parties won only 3 per cent of the constituency votes, but 10 per cent of votes for party lists.”
“Labour’s support diverged by 5 percentage points between the constituency vote (39 per cent) and the list vote (34 per cent).”
“The Lib Dems diverged by 2 percentage points (14 versus 12).”
“And the Greens and militant socialists both won a seat.”
“A month later, the European elections produced an even starker result.”
“The main parties, including the Welsh and Scottish Nationalists, won 81 per cent of the total vote, compared with 96 per cent in the 1997 general election.”
“The total share of the vote won by minor parties leapt from 4 per cent to 19, giving the UK Independence Party three seats and the Greens two.”
“And Labour collapsed to 28 per cent – equalling its annus horribilis of 1983, when Margaret Thatcher won her biggest landslide.”
“Next month’s elections to the new Greater London Assembly will also be conducted on a proportional system.”
“the “others” tally on election night could approach 25 per cent – or more, if Livingstone’s support for the Greens catches the popular imagination.”
“The party should still win most of the 14 local area seats, but may not be entitled to any of the 11 “top-up” seats.”
“Under our existing system for electing MPs, the Social Democrats were all but doomed from the day they were formed in 1981.”
“Labour is defending 1,700 of the 3,300 wards being contested.”
“The last time they were fought was 1996, when John Major’s government was in the mire.”
“Labour says that if it loses fewer than 500, and the Tories gain fewer than 400, then Blair should be happy.”
“The Conservatives claim that 200 gains would be enough to cheer William Hague.”
“Last year, Labour held a slender lead of 2-3 points when the raw results were converted into a nationwide vote share.”
“The Tories need a 10-point lead next month to have any real chance of running Labour close when the big battle is joined next year.”
“The total share of the vote won by minor parties leapt from 4 per cent to 19,”
“giving the UK Independence Party three seats and the Greens two.”
“the ‘others’ tally on election night could approach 25 per cent – or more,”
“At 3am London time, the president accepted Wilson’s phone call.”
“He is a 68-year-old retired postman and he is not a happy man. From his flat in Partick in Glasgow, Harvey has fired off 29 petitions to the Scottish Parliament, a fifth of all those submitted since sittings began last summer.”
“He has received a letter from the public petitions committee telling him that his 29 submissions are consuming scarce resources, and asking him to be more selective in his future concerns.”
“More than 150 have been received so far and several are thought likely to be taken further.”
“In the coming weeks, McAllion and his committee will be holding a series of meetings around Scotland to explain their work and encourage participation.”
“Ritchie puts on record Labour’s crude attempt to blackmail his paper by withholding £100,000 of advertising revenue, a shoddy exercise that was raised recently in the parliament. ... The decision to withhold £100,000-worth of Labour advert…”
“Ritchie lets us in on discussions with the Herald‘s editor, Harry Reid, about the paper’s editorial stance, which has never openly supported a political party. ... 'We think we should not align ourselves with any party in the Scottish Parl…”
“Ritchie reveals: 'We think we should not align ourselves with any party in the Scottish Parliament elections, but there is a sound case for taking a stance on Scottish independence. My inclination is to support it.' In fact, the Herald dec…”
“Russell complained during the election of a million copies a day being sold by the Daily Record and the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail, 'all more or less telling the people not to vote for the SNP'.”
“Ritchie glosses over the SNP’s disastrous publication of its own election newspaper in an attempt to counter the ferocity of the attacks on it by Scotland’s biggest-selling newspapers.”
“Demos was founded in 1993”
“The Common Sense of Community – a communitarian tract published in 1995”
“Roy Hattersley, who was the MP for nearby Birmingham Sparkbrook”
“Atkinson, the secretary of Streetwatch, estimated he had 500 supporters”
“Leadbeater proclaimed in 1996”
“When Sean Connery is knighted in July, the ceremony will be held at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh”
“When Connery received the freedom of the City of Edinburgh in 1991”
“At 2.10pm on 6 September 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger in South Africa’s now defunct Assembly House, crossed the parliament floor, unsheathed a dagger and plunged its blade four times into the chest of the prime minist…”
“Tragically, the despised system of separate development was to survive another three decades.”
“Fewer than ten people turned up at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox church.”
“The 81-year-old assassin died of pneumonia in a mental institution after spending most of his life on a South African death row.”
“Tsafendas was born in Mozambique in 1918”
“moved to the Transvaal at the age of ten.”
“Four years later, when he returned to Mozambique, the Tsafendas family secret was revealed: he was the illegitimate son of a Mozambican woman – and thus “coloured”, not “white” as many still believe.”
“He returned to South Africa in 1936 and, a year later, the tapeworm made its first appearance.”
“He spent six months on New York’s Ellis Island;”
“In 1964, Tsafendas was back in South Africa”
“Mandela ordered him to be moved to the Sterkfontein mental hospital in 1994.”
“Gordon Brown devoted just 62 words to the two measures in last Tuesday’s Budget that will have the greatest long-term impact on Britain’s tax and benefit system.”
“these huge changes will not come into effect until 2003 – well, after the next general election.”
“The working families tax credit, which will become fully operational next month, helps obviously deserving families where parents are struggling on low earnings...”
“Labour’s worst by-election result in Scotland in over 30 years”
“a vote more than halved”
“a seat that was won in 1997 and 1999, albeit with only a 25-vote majority in a traditional Tory seat”
“Ian Welsh quit after only six months”
“54 of 129 MSPs”
“56 of 72 Scots MPs”
“The SNP claims that replicating the Ayr result across Scotland would make it the majority party in the Scottish Parliament with 58 seats.”
“In a seat that was number 50 on its hit list”
“Labour MPs in constituencies with the SNP breathing down their necks”
“the SNP’s new soft line on independence”
“this was a measure born of the struggle between high-Thatcherism and ultra-leftism – pushed through to guard schoolchildren against what was widely perceived as a radical cultural agenda, endorsed by some teachers. [...] the government’s s…”
“they have the backing of Brian Souter, the founder and chairman of the successful bus company Stagecoach, who has pledged his very large private fortune to fight for the family”
“On 20 March, the Scottish Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Committee met in the main debating chamber of the parliament.”
“It was composed wholly of Labour and Liberal MSPs (who form the ruling coalition) with some opposition Scottish Nationalists. The only Tory on the committee was absent.”
“'Keep the Clause' has as its most powerful advocates Brian Souter and Cardinal Thomas Winning, the head of the Scottish Roman Catholic Church”
“Tom Cassidy of the PR company Media House, which organises the 'Keep the Clause' movement for Souter”
“earlier this week, they had the backing of almost all the faiths in Scotland for a letter which pleaded with Donald Dewar, the First Minister, for a written commitment to family-centred teaching.”
“The committee had slightly more women on it than men and was under the chairmanship of Kate MacLean, a Labour MSP from Dundee”
“Tommy Sheridan, who is the only representative of a socialist party (the Scottish Socialist Party) in a British legislature.”
“Judith Mackinlay was that bogey of anti-political correctness conservatives, a lesbian single parent. She was also a primary-school teacher.”
“The last time I discussed BMW at length was on Remembrance Day, 11 November 1998. As Paymaster General, I met Peter Mandelson, then the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in his office at the DTI.”
“this was a measure born of the struggle between high-Thatcherism and ultra-leftism – pushed through to guard schoolchildren against what was widely perceived as a radical cultural agenda, endorsed by some teachers.”
“In England and Wales, the government seems to have placated those who wanted the family honoured, by a formula that replaces the deleted Clause 28 and enjoins teachers to stress the 'value of family life . . . the significance of marriage …”
“they chose to put 'ordinary people' before the committee in order to make a more powerful impact.”
“the committee had slightly more women on it than men and was under the chairmanship of Kate MacLean, a Labour MSP from Dundee”
“Labour’s Johann Lamont subjected Rowling (who did most of the talking) to a close and unforgiving interrogation on the effects of the campaign.”
““It is said there are 30,000 immigrants with no papers in the whole of this area,” he said.”
