Tag: david-davis
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What funny games appear to be going on in Westminster at the moment. First, Labour and the DUP redefine porkbarreling for the UK context (deny everything, smirk, smirk), then David Davis resigns – with Clegg’s backing. In terms of the latter, I’m just confused by the whole business. It is a little moot about whether…
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Madsen Pirie wrote the following on the Adam Smith Blog last week: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has a real problem. Last week one of his MPs tabled a bill in Parliament to force pubs and bars to sell wine in small measures only, while one of his party’s MEPs called for a ban on…
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It has to be said, David Davis’ article today opposing detention without trial is good, liberal stuff. Just a few things: Is this the same David Davis who was on the radio last week claiming that the government should build a limitless number of new prisons (obviously, it isn’t the same David Davies who said…