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		<title>I was Cameron&#8217;s speechwriter but voted for my Sunday football pal Keir. He&#8217;ll need all his on-pitch tenacity to tackle the Herculean challenges ahead</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (5th July, 2024) It is more than 14 years since I stood chatting to a nervous politician on the eve of taking power. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Brexit could shatter Britain’s two-party politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by CapX (15th March, 2019) On the day the coalition government was formed, I found myself briefly alone with an exhausted David Cameron as he was about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stunning victory leaves Cameron awash with political capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 18:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (8th May, 2015) This stunning election victory is something to savour for David Cameron. It is a personal triumph that trounces not just political rivals, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why are the Tories not racing away with this election?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Telegraph (1st April, 2015) George Osborne hit the campaign trail in Hove yesterday, posing for cheesy pictures as he made pizzas in a restaurant. Outside, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Campaign starts with two main parties trapped in comfort zones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (30 March, 2015) The phoney war is over. Today, the general election campaign finally begins. David Cameron is expected to drive to Buckingham Palace [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yes, the NHS is creaking but Labour&#8217;s cynical hypocrisy is sickening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2015) With headlines screaming that the NHS is in meltdown, a plethora of English hospitals have suddenly declared ‘major incidents’, unable [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Tory-Labour unity coalition may be the only way forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Guardian (3rd January, 2014) In the 1929 general election, Labour won 37% of the vote and became the biggest party in the House of Commons, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We&#8217;re heading for a crisis whoever wins the election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (6th October, 2014) There is something absurd about the Liberal Democrat conference, with all those attacks on their partners in government over the past four [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Conservative split may be the catharsis the party needs</title>
		<link>https://ianbirrell.com/a-conservative-split-may-be-the-catharsis-the-party-needs/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Guardian (1st October, 2014) The room was packed in anticipation of good debate. But from the start of the Conservative conference fringe event on immigration [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The curse of coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 20:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Independent on Sunday (25th May, 2014) The night before the coalition was formed, a senior member of the Tory team stormed back from a critical [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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