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Labour lose Derbyshire to the Tories

For many on the Labour side this was the bell-weather. Before the election the council’s composition was Labour 38, Tory 14, Lib Dem 10 and independent 2.

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Why the Tories should oppose regime change

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As a minister I lived by mantras: simple principles that summed up how I believed you got things done. Faced with a PowerPoint presentation as means of influencing policy, I’d sling it back in the box with the injunction ‘Think in ink’ – in other words, make a proper sustained argument on paper instead of

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