Tories axe right-wing group over race issue
By Nigel Morris Political Correspondent
The Independent, 19 October 2001
The hard-right Monday Club was suspended from the
Conservative Party last night and told it would only be
readmitted if it abandoned campaigning on immigration.
David Davi
And you thought it was Guardian articles that get forwarded to PEN-L?!
Previous posts under this heading have speculated on precisely the
subject of yesterday's lengthy disquisition by Hugo Young, who is the
Guardian's chief political analyst and board member of the Scott Trust,
the independent bo
Penners
The old ones are the best ones. Just as Old Labour got dished from the
right (via the SDP), now the Conservatives are getting those vague
warnings of a breakaway. No Gang of Three/Four yet, but look out.
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Duncan Smith win 'could prompt defections'
Lucy Ward, political corresponde
Penners
The article below is a case study in the confused politics of the present.
His paper having joined the effort to discredit Portillo, Jonathan Freedland
now bemoans the Conservative Party's apparently inevitable drift into civil
war as two diametrically opposed candidates do battle over th
> Penners
>
> The article below is a case study in the confused politics of the
> present. His paper having joined the effort to discredit Portillo,
> Jonathan Freedland now bemoans the Conservative Party's apparently
> inevitable drift into civil war as two diametrically opposed
> candidates do
Penners,
As suggested last week, both Bill Morris's TGWU and Dave Prentis's Unison
are following the lead set by John Edmonds' GMB in opposing, forthrightly,
New Labour's plans to privatise what remains of the welfare state, and much
else of the state sector. Against the warnings of his predecess
