European politics is rarely the backdrop for incidence and romance, but the events of this morning have had it all. Well, it's been more interesting than a statutory instrument committee, which is progress.
So, Cameron announces that the Tories are set to leave the European People's Party (EPP) in order to garner some cheap anti-European headlines ... I mean provide real opposition to the Brussels bureaucracy. Presumably he'll worry about the headlines generated by some of the more, uh, fruity thoughts on race on the part of their potential partners in the Shiny New Group at a later date.
The Times reveals that Cameron takes a gamble on a £200k donation from a slot machine billionaire, shortly before the entire shadow front bench decide dthat the delights of the Bognor casino scene need to be enshrined on the Ainshunt Freedoms list (in between MPs rights to turn their offices into whorehouses unmolested by the hand of plod, and the Collected Speeches of St Davis of Magnercarter). Orwell would have been proud.
By Sadie Smith
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Posted in Morning roundup
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Also tagged antisemitism, Back Towards the Locus, Barack Obama, David Davis, de Tocqueville, Derek Draper, Don Paskini, George Orwell, Iain Dale, John Prescott, Jonathan Freedland, Kerry Katona, Melanie Phillips, Richard Littlejohn, Taxpayers' Alliance, The Mirror, The Times, Tom Daschle
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It's almost as if we've been wafting around to strains of the Time Warp in Westminster today with talk of the return of Ken Clarke, recession blues, and references to Norman Lamont popping up in the most unlikely places. By which I mean in the Chamber as opposed to Davy Cameron's CV from whence, one [...]
By Sadie Smith
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Posted in Daily debrief
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Also tagged Anton Vowl, Ben Brogan, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, Heathrow, Hoby, Kerry McCarthy, Nick Clegg, Noman Lamont, Norman Lamont, Sam Coates, Shriti Vadera, William Hague
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