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Tories dump soap star Adam from MP race at the first opportunity
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FORMER soap star Adam Rickitt has been abruptly dumped from his
first Tory selection contest, dealing a blow to David Cameron's
reforms.
The onetime Coronation Street actor, male model and would-be pop
star failed to make a list of 20 candidates for the Folkestone and
Hythe seat being vacated by Michael Howard, the Standard has learned.
Among those going through to another round are Simon Walker, the
Queen's former press adviser who is now a media executive, and Priti
Patel, a f...
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Nothing of the dirt about him Bruce Anderson sniffs out the not-so- dark secrets buried in Michael Howard's past
The Sunday Telegraph London
; THIS IS AN irritating book. Michael Howard is a fascinating character: far more interesting than his public image would suggest. He gives great scope to a sophisticated biographer. Equally, it would also be possible to write a thoughtfully hostile account of certain aspects of his career and
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Living in fear of Michael Howard
The Independent - London
; My mailbag is full of letters from people desperate to know what they should do if they meet Michael Howard unexpectedly. Should they have a go? Should they notify the authorities? Or just ignore him? To take just one example, I have received a letter from one old lady living in south London who
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Can you solve the Michael Howard mystery?
The Independent - London
; Today I hope to settle once and for all the Michael Howard problem. The Michael Howard problem is a simple one: What does he think he is up to? Or to put it another way, who does he think he is? It's a bit like the Hamlet problem, I suppose: is he really mad or just pretending to be mad? I am not
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Michael Howard is not Michael Howard
The Independent - London
; ... again. You probably know all this by now yourself. It is not news to you. But there is something else you do not know, which is ... time you thought you saw Michael Howard on the podium on the news, it was actually a lookalike Michael Howard! But there is worse ...
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The Howards step out of the night THE BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND THE HUSBAND SHE HAS SUPPORTED THROUGHOUT HIS LONG AND DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO THE TOP MICHAEL HOWARD
Evening Standard - London
; Vogue model devoted to her fourth husband SANDRA HOWARD By Alison Roberts SHORTLY after the 1997 general election, at a dinner party at the Docklands home of David and Penny Mellor attended by a number of senior Tory politicians, the talk turned finally to the financial prospects of those defeated
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The Howards step out of the night; THE BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND THE HUSBAND SHE HAS SUPPORTED THROUGHOUT HIS LONG AND DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO THE TOP MICHAEL HOWARD.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: ALISON ROBERTS;BRUCE ANDERSON Vogue model devoted to her fourth husband SANDRA HOWARD By Alison Roberts SHORTLY after the 1997 general election, at a dinner party at the Docklands home of David and Penny Mellor attended by a number of senior Tory politicians, the talk turned finally to the
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The History Man; PAUL ROUTLEDGE watches as Michael Howard loses the plot.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: PAUL ROUTLEDGE IT IS not often that your maiden speech as party leader is also your swan song. But Michael Howard managed this political feat yesterday without turning a hair - not that he has many to turn. The Tory leader did not just lurch to the Right. He hurled himself into headlong
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THE HISTORY MAN; PAUL ROUTLEDGE watches as Michael Howard loses the plot.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: PAUL ROUTLEDGE IT IS not often that your maiden speech as party leader is also your swan song. But Michael Howard managed this political feat yesterday without turning a hair - not that he has many to turn. The Tory leader did not just lurch to the Right. He hurled himself into headlong
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The best news for Michael Howard is that Blair has decided to fight the next election
The Spectator
; On Monday, just as people set-tled down for the summer holidays, Michael Howard returned from his. He slipped back into Britain and at once set to work. He is already two thirds of the way through the probable term of his leadership. Just eight months remain until the general election, most likely
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In memoriam: Michael Howard
Musical Times
; Michael Howard When the definitive history of the British early music movement comes to be written, a survey of the immediate post-Second World War decades would be seriously incomplete without a proper assessment of the work of conductor, organist, composer and teacher Michael Howard. In his
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