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Guardian on Hidden Tory Slush Funds: Skips Oily Duncan (Chris Paul: Labour of Love)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Paul) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:55:00 GMT

The most extraordinary things about the Guardian round-up of late Tory donations revelations does not feature "Alan Duncan", "Vitol", "Arawak Energy" or the like. But Conservative Home don't note that. But they do notice that despite all the revelations and all the Duncan spiking Chris Grayling had in fact already declared support for his office. We reported that alongside news...

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Cameron dazzles us by opening his bare cupboard (Liberal Burblings)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:29:00 GMT

... boosters will be provided by the man Cameron has put in charge of his renewable energy policy - Alan Duncan, a man who is one of the world's experts in making money out of energy which is....er....not renewable - namely oil....having a border police force.In other words, Village People cops to satisfy Daily Mail readers. All butch uniforms and swaggering....the importance of wellbeing...

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Tories plan to axe RDAs (Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk )

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

All seven other RDAs promote their regions in the same way, with Advantage West Midlands boasting bureaux in no fewer than eight countries. But, in a major speech on the future for RDAs, Conservative business spokesman Alan Duncan said it made no sense for the regions to compete by setting up rival bases.

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Change and Change Again (Valleys Mam)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:10:00 GMT

Shadow business secretary Alan Duncan is set to say that regional development agencies have become "a blancmange" under Labour and must be refocused towards helping business, boosting regeneration and developing skills. Duncan will pledge that a Conservative government would restructure RDAs, which he says are evolving into an executive arm of government instead of being "a business-led...

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Hutton eyes coal to replace imports of gas (Financial Time)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT

... power or in opposing planning reforms to speed up approvals of big infrastructure projects.But Alan Duncan, shadow business secretary, said the intent of the government to develop coal "at any cost", was a decision that would leave future generations with a "massive carbon headache". He added: "That means they can only keep the lights on by being dirty."Having become a leading advocate...

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Duncan v Oborne? (New Statesman)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:14:42 GMT

Will Alan Duncan square up to Peter Oborne after the Daily Mail columnist wrote about his business links... A fascinating spat is developing between Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne and the Shadow Business Secretary Alan Duncan. Writing in the Mail on Saturday, Oborne warned that the Tories' capacity for sleaze was not over. He suggested, for example, that Duncan's...

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Quangos Cost More Than Our Armed Forces. (The Psychiatrist Blog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:53:00 GMT

Alan Duncan today announced that Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), are evolving into an executive arm of government instead of being “a business-led force for good”. He fears RDAs have become “increasingly politicised” and that the government’s plans to give them strategic planning powers is “a huge mistake...ingraining a tier of regional government with no mandate, no legitimacy...

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Monday 30th June 2008 (ConservativeHome)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:59:26 GMT

... up by a Tory policy review board led by Lord Stevens, the former Met commissioner." - Telegraph Alan Duncan promises business-led, not political-led Regional Development Agencies - FT Tories try to reverse Labour's tax hike on older cars - Times Tories knew of Spelman's nanny nine years ago - Daily Mail Yesterday on CentreRight.com, Andrew Lilico called for an end to the war on MPs...

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UK plans big wind power expansion [Raw Story Breaking News] (The Liberal Blog Network)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:30:14 GMT

For the Conservatives, shadow business secretary Alan Duncan said: "After a series of painful and reluctant u-turns, it seems like the government is at last coming round to our vision of a greener Britain.

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Cotswolds MP hears positive news from Europe (Cotswold Chatterblog)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:03:40 GMT

Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, in his capacity as the Shadow Minister for International Trade and Development, has spent two days in Brussels meeting with the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Alan Duncan MP and the rest of his Shadow departmental team, and meeting with senior trade representatives at the European Parliament. This visit was of [...]

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How Would You Describe Tory Backbenchers? (Gavin's Gaily Gigest)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:50:31 GMT

According to Sam Coates of The Times, one Tory MP has adopted Alan Duncan’s phrase to refer to some of the Conservative Party’s more foaming-mouth members and their reaction to the Equalities Bill: Of the seven Tory backbenchers in the chamber, two were in favour - Paul Goodman and John Bercow and five - Philip Davies, [...]

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Action on renewable energy needed now (Conservative Party)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:06:10 GMT

Alan Duncan has warned that our energy security will be put at risk if we don't take immediate action on renewable energy.

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UK plans big wind power expansion (BBC News)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:22:25 GMT

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Oily Duncan MP: Transcript from Andrew Marr Show (Chris Paul: Labour of Love)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Paul) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:55:00 GMT

Here is part of the transcript of the interview referred to here yesterday : ANDREW MARR: Welcome. ALAN DUNCAN: Morning. ANDREW MARR: Thank you for coming in. I do want to ask you first of all about this News of the World story saying that you've, you know you haven't declared money that's been coming .. ALAN DUNCAN: Yeah. ANDREW MARR: .. in. Peter Oborne raised it. ALAN...

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Monday 23rd June 2008 (ConservativeHome)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:54:17 GMT

Local government : Councils are using surveillance powers to stop misuse of disabled parking badges and against littering Nick Gulliford on Platform : The Government could be doing much more to encourage strong relationships On CentreRight : Cameron Watt highlights a speech by Iain Duncan Smith about social housing's role in creating "social apartheid" Alex Deane on the extreme left-wing politics...

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Jackie Ashley: It's no longer populist to put jobs ahead of the climate (The Guardian)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:12:27 GMT

The low politics is that this measure is wanted by business, and Brown wants to cause problems for the Tories. To that extent, things are going well for him. There has been an internal Tory row about the Heathrow expansion, with Alan Duncan, the opposition business spokesman, thought to be much more pro-expansion than David Cameron - who last week committed himself to opposing a third...

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Now your shopping bill hits new high (Daily Express)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... Opec countries to increase production and bring fuel prices down.But shadow business secretary Alan Duncan said the Prime Minister was woefully out of touch. He told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: “The idea that Opec can just go like that and flood the market with oil and bring the price down just shows that Gordon Brown does not understand global markets.”Last night The Grocer report revealed...

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Not outside of the Green Room, please, the proles are listening (Bob Piper)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:52:57 GMT

Little Alan Duncan was one of the guests on the Andrew Marr programme this morning, which was almost an inducement to switch off instantly. However, I was glad I didn't because I would have missed the excellent bit during the newspaper review when the Daily Mail's Peter Oborne revealed that the smarmy Tory front bencher had buttonholed Marr in the Green Room before the programme to ask...

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Femail: Outing Gay Policeman Agent Provocateur (Chris Paul: Labour of Love)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Paul) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:57:00 GMT

Also at the Guido revelation about little Alan Duncan MP throwing his weight around in Andrew Marr's Green Room was a link to a story from Femail in which Yasmin Whittaker-khan "outs" a gay police inspector who was it seems acting as agent provocateur and trying to stir up anti-war protestors, shouting "Pigs Out" and the like. In the Mail of all places. There must surely be a picture...

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Not in Front of the Voters (Guy Fawkes' blog)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:19:00 GMT

Peter Oborne pulled back the curtain showing us a little vignette of the political class on Marr's show this morning. In the midst of a paper review he deliberately blurted out that Alan Duncan had just a few minutes earlier button-holed Marr in the green room, lobbying him not to ask questions about donations from a dodgy oil trader, citing legal issues. Marr look panicked and said in...

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