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

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Following the closure of Camerons, the insolvency of GCGL has been precipitated due to the various guaranteees it provided which have been called upon,’ said Guernsey-based joint liquidator Linda Johnson, a partner at KPMG. Toynbee’s and Walker’s style is not subtle (the coalition’s welfare cuts are described as a “chainsaw massacre”) and many of those who do not share their centre-left assumptions and visceral anti-Toryism will be repelled. They occasionally commit the error of assuming that once they have identified the worst possible motive for an act, they have also identified the correct one. Those few measures for which the coalition deserves praise, such as the increase in foreign aid and equal marriage, are too readily dismissed (“Cue pictures of the happy pairs,” they churlishly respond to the latter). 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. Matt, 16, a school pupil in Birmingham who was at the march said: "He believes what we believe to some extent."

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Cameron said that his aim in writing the book was to "correct the record" where he thought it was wrong. [4] It covers his decision to call the 2016 referendum on the UK's European Union membership and its outcome, which led him to quit as Prime Minister and as MP for Witney two months later. It also describes the Scottish independence referendum and his reforms to economy, welfare and education. His controversial foreign policy is mentioned, as is the 2013 legalisation of same-sex marriage under his government. Freedland, Jonathan (19 September 2019). "For the Record: David Cameron's memoir is honest but still wrong". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 September 2019. A British composer beloved by the royal family secretly sought state help to supply him with illegal quantities of controlled drugs, previously classified papers reveal.David Cameron was accused of playing into the hands of rightwing extremists today as he delivered a controversial speech on the failings of multiculturalism within hours of one of the biggest anti-Islam rallies ever staged in Britain. In his memo, contained within the latest tranche of declassified cabinet files released by the National Archives in Kew, Omand wrote: “The intake of asylum seekers is now running at double the rate when we published our plans and targets in 1998. The publishing supremo Cecil King wrote in 1981 to the then cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, after international newspaper reports that, along with Lord Mountbatten and Lord Cudlipp, he had plotted to overthrow Wilson’s ailing Labour government more than a decade earlier. Last summer it was encouraging management buy-outs of some of its group companies and business including RG Falla and Geomarine left the group.

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Owen Jones is a columnist at the Guardian and a former columnist at the Independent, as well as a regular TV/radio broadcaster and public speaker. He’s the author of Chavs, The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It and the soon-to-be-released The Politics of Hope. Owen is the winner of the 2012 Stonewall Journalist of the Year and 2013 Political Book Awards Young Writer of the Year. He tweets @OwenJones84. The group’s directors and shareholders voted to wind the company up and appoint liquidators to realise the group’s assets, including shares in its subsidiaries. Cameron was interviewed by News at Ten presenter Tom Bradby in The Cameron Interview on 16 September. [6] ITV said the interview was watched by an average of 3 million viewers. Excerpts of For the Record were published in The Times in the week before the book's release and Cameron became the final interview for outgoing BBC Radio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys. [7] 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.McGuinness, Alan (17 May 2019). "For The Record: David Cameron's autobiography gets release date". Sky News . Retrieved 17 May 2019. 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. Nowhere was the dogma and disarray of Cameron’s style of government more evident than in his reorganisation of the NHS. Nowhere was pre-election subterfuge more apparent: ex-Tory minister Michael Portillo later said simply:“They did not believe they could win if they told you what they were going to do.” They pledged not to cut the NHS cash budget, but ignored inflation, an increase in births, rising numbers of over-80s and how cuts in council social care sent more of them to hospital.

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King told Armstrong that the Mirror had simply “cooled” towards the Wilson premiership owing to the fact he “was no prime minister”. However, there are a far higher number of ‘unsecured creditors’ – businesses and individuals further down the established hierarchy of who gets what when a company goes under. 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] Perraudin, Frances (16 May 2019). "David Cameron's book to be published in September". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 17 May 2019.

He accused Wilson, who was legitimately ousted by Ted Heath’s Conservatives at the 1970 general election, of feeding the coup allegation to the press in 1981, and of being influential in his removal from the IPC board. Writing in the newspaper i, James Hanning, a biographer of Cameron, said "his book displays all the sensitivity and communication skills he showed in office... Cameron is said to have not enjoyed writing this book, but it doesn't feel that way. Despite its demands, he gives every sense of having enjoyed office. Until June 2016, that is." [11]