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Lord Ashcroft’s Tory Right is stopping the Coalition working...The Government's early idealism has vanished due to Lord Ashcroft’s media pressure telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Lord Ashcroft and his small but beautifully placed army of editors, columnists and pollsters have started to push David Cameron around. On issue after issue – Europe, welfare, education, taxation – Mr Cameron edged away from the political centre towards the Right 2/3
The transformation of David Cameron personally from the family-friendly, tree‑hugging moderniser of his early days as Tory leader to today’s veto-wielding wind-farm slasher is one manifestation of Lord Ashcroft’s success. 3/3
Lord Ashcroft's business behaviour compared to that of Gordon Gekko by UK judge theguardian.com/business/2003/…
New Statesman said Ashcroft deliberately avoided VAT on opinion poll work commisioned by the Tories back in 2010 newstatesman.com/2010/03/ashcro…
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