Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink

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Remedies came in the form of the intrusive medical tests, the Work Programme, abolition of the emergency social fund and frozen benefits. We met a junior jobcentre manager, who wished to remain anonymous, in a railway hotel in a Midlands town. “Sanctions are applied for anything at all, just to hit the targets.” Officially the government denied having targets to reduce claimant numbers. “Many don’t know what’s happened until their benefit suddenly stops. Many can hardly read. It’s very easy to hand someone two sheets of A4 and get them to agree to 50 ‘steps’ towards work but they don’t know what a step is, so they’re sanctioned; their claim is shut down and they disappear from the figures.” As the row over the prime minister's remarks intensified, Tory co-chairman Baroness Warsi called for an apology from shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan after he accused Cameron of "writing propaganda for the EDL".Mason, Rowena (25 October 2016). "David Cameron signs deal to write tell-all autobiography". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 17 May 2019. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said Cameron had handed a "propaganda coup to the EDL and their extremists". You can join the discussion at a Guardian Live event on 2 February - Is Thatcher more radical than Cameron? Find out more about Guardian membership and how to sign up. Pearson, Allison (22 September 2019). "For the Record by David Cameron, review: If only he hadn't chosen head over heart". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 24 September 2019.

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Matt, 16, a school pupil in Birmingham who was at the march said: "He believes what we believe to some extent." The story of the Cameron era had unexpected twists. Members of the Bullingdon Club are bred to rule, so it was surprising they turned out to be so inept in the basic arts of government. Time and time again they stumbled into self-made disarray, from the attempt to sell publicly-owned woodland to the proposal, later scrapped, to increase the speed limit to 80mph. Geoff Jacobs and David Standish from Interpath Advisory and Linda Johnson and Leonard Gerber of KPMG Advisory were appointed joint liquidators on Friday 31 st March. Earlier this week, firms owed money by the contractor were invited to a meeting, where the joint liquidators of the company – who are tasked with winding Camerons down and paying what they can to creditors – were appointed. Lansley was a fantasist. He promised patients, “no decision about me without me”, but gave patients no say in running his local commissioning apparatus. Besides, how could they choose the NHS if Virgin, Circle or Serco was running a service? “Liberating the NHS”, the title of the 2010 white paper, turned out to give the central healthcare regulator, Monitor, a remit to enforce commercial competition. The chairmanship of Monitor was taken by a former Tory health minister. At the head of the Care Quality Commission arrived another Tory, former MP David Prior. Sir Malcolm Grant, who in 2011 was appointed chair of NHS England, said he didn’t use the NHS himself.Established in 1985, GCGL provides head office functions including IT, HR and finance services, to various subsidiaries in the construction, facilities management and related industries. The Guardian 's Jonathan Freedland said that the book "reminds you why Cameron dominated British politics for so long. The prose is, like him, smooth and efficient. There are welcome splashes of colour." [14] Tim Dowling is a journalist for the Guardian. He writes a weekly column for Weekend magazine and is the author of several books, including How To Be A Husband. Read Tim’s Guardian articles here. You may also be interested in… William Collins' overview said that Cameron gives "for the first time, his perspective on the EU referendum and his views on the future of Britain's place in the world in the light of Brexit". [5] Publication [ edit ]

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Rentoul, John (19 September 2019). "David Cameron's memoir of failure carries eerie echoes of Tony Blair". The Independent. George Osborne: My friend David's memoir is a great political read". Evening Standard. 19 September 2019 . Retrieved 24 September 2019. Gove’s dash to create academies and free schools was in tune with the government’s ideology: remove the state and everything would spontaneously arrange itself for the best. But the Department for Education’s own research suggested that left to themselves academies and free schools didn’t necessarily bear out these ideas. Nor were they accountable to anyone – many now operated by mysterious chains of sponsors, which Gove forbade Ofsted from inspecting. Free schools careered along like driverless cars on unmarked roads, and a few duly crashed as their unsupervised management plunged into special measures or closure. copies of For the Record were sold in its first week on sale, placing it second to Margaret Atwood's The Testaments in the book charts. [10] Reception [ edit ] Anti-cuts protesters dressed as David Cameron and Margaret Thatcher at the TUC march in London, in 2011. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesGuardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff offers guidance on how to be more persuasive and build an argument in your writing For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? Writing in the Evening Standard, editor (and former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Cameron) George Osborne found it to be "one of the very best" political memoirs, saying "His book has been so hard for him to write. It's been a kind of purgatory for him, motivated by a sense of duty that Prime Ministers should explain why they did what they did, for the record. It's why it is so good." He clarified "I'm not neutral as Cameron is my friend." [16] Flood, Alison (24 September 2019). "David Cameron's memoir fails to top Tony Blair's in first week sales". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 September 2019.

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When Conservative MPs discuss the next general election, they frequently assert that they “deserve to win”. They believe that their record merits the parliamentary majority they failed to secure in 2010. Such is the conviction with which they state their achievements – the halving of the deficit, a record number in employment, the highest-ever level of GDP – that even non-Tories are prone to ask whether the government’s opponents have exaggerated its defects.Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian and former BBC social affairs editor. She won the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1998 and in 2007 was named Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards. She has also written and co-authored many books including her latest, Cameron’s Coup. She tweets @pollytoynbee. Geoff Jacobs, managing director at Interpath Advisory and joint liquidator, said: “Our intention is to retain six employees for a period of time to continue the provision of certain head office functions to the wider group entities where appropriate to do so and we will also seek to realise the shares in certain subsidiaries. We thank the employees in advance for their support during this challenging time.” The state has to be very cautious in using its power to mould cultural values. Comparisons with far-right groups on the day the EDL is mounting a demonstration is needlessly provocative. Not even the Conservatives had the chutzpah to claim credit for saving the Union but they showed no such hesitancy in other cases, treating failures as acts of God and successes as their own work. The economy exceeded its pre-recession peak but only after years of stagnation, leaving GDP per capita well below its previous level.