'I try to live my life on the Monty Python principle' says Ken Clarke at @CPSThinkTank. 'And now for something completely different...'
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Govt will win Art 50 vote in HoC easily, Ken Clarke tells
@CPSThinkTank - 'I've no idea why they're faffing about'.
He'll vote against but all others will vote in favour because they're too scared of the Daily Mail.
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Says entirely right not to have Orgreave inquiry - plainly was a pitched battle but hard-left attempt to build mythology around it
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Defends press freedom but calls attacks on individual judges 'neo-fascist'. Also lays into treatment of Carney
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No Western country has produced a leader who can cope with demands of news agenda says Ken - except Merkel v1. See my book for more...
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UK 'toying with staying in the customs union because we've accidentally left the single market' cos of need to say something at conference
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UK needs proposals 'in joined-up writing, and we're a long away from that' says Ken
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Adds that the way to hit immigration target is to have 'a really good recession'
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Claims immigration 'wasn't an issue' until Libya. (Really?) Referendum was to calm down Eurosceps and thwart UKIP - economy then the focus
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'It never crossed [Cameron's] mind that he might lose the referendum until the night of the count'
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'No one has emerged in any of the Western democracies' among mainstream politicians who's in tune with the spirit of the 21st century
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And no one has anything to say to the left behind - May has right ideas but will need the policies...
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Ends by saying he and Hezza would have caused 'complete and utter mayhem' as Tory leader purely cos of their Euro-enthusiasm
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