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

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Records show Susana Walton, the composer’s wife, asked a police inspector in 1982 to help send a year’s supply to his home on the island of Ischia, near Naples in Italy, despite it having recently become illegal to do so in such high volumes. Reports of an alleged government coup attempt in 1968, recreated for the Netflix series The Crown, had “no foundation in fact”, according to one of the high-profile men accused years later over the plot. Geoff Jacobs, managing director at Interpath Advisory and joint liquidator, said: “Our intention is to retain six employees for a period of time to continue the provision of certain head office functions to the wider group entities where appropriate to do so and we will also seek to realise the shares in certain subsidiaries. We thank the employees in advance for their support during this challenging time.”McGuinness, Alan (17 May 2019). "For The Record: David Cameron's autobiography gets release date". Sky News . Retrieved 17 May 2019.

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In his book Capital, Thomas Piketty observed that in advanced economies wealth has become so concentrated among the few that most people are virtually unaware of its existence. Great wealth is secret, and its hold on power even more so. Who knows what goes on over country suppers in the Cotswolds, where the prime minister’s neighbours include Rebekah Wade and Rupert Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth, with Mark Carney’s sister-in-law and lobbying magnate Lord Chadlington next door? Yet people have inklings. Cameron provokes nothing like the visceral response that Thatcher did, but he has not erased people’s resentment of privilege. Today’s opinion polls reflect a scratchy sense of unfairness. George Osborne’s mantra, first chanted at the 2012 party conference, “all in it together” raises a hollow laugh. 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. Flood, Alison (24 September 2019). "David Cameron's memoir fails to top Tony Blair's in first week sales". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 September 2019. 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.Remedies came in the form of the intrusive medical tests, the Work Programme, abolition of the emergency social fund and frozen benefits. We met a junior jobcentre manager, who wished to remain anonymous, in a railway hotel in a Midlands town. “Sanctions are applied for anything at all, just to hit the targets.” Officially the government denied having targets to reduce claimant numbers. “Many don’t know what’s happened until their benefit suddenly stops. Many can hardly read. It’s very easy to hand someone two sheets of A4 and get them to agree to 50 ‘steps’ towards work but they don’t know what a step is, so they’re sanctioned; their claim is shut down and they disappear from the figures.” Lansley was a fantasist. He promised patients, “no decision about me without me”, but gave patients no say in running his local commissioning apparatus. Besides, how could they choose the NHS if Virgin, Circle or Serco was running a service? “Liberating the NHS”, the title of the 2010 white paper, turned out to give the central healthcare regulator, Monitor, a remit to enforce commercial competition. The chairmanship of Monitor was taken by a former Tory health minister. At the head of the Care Quality Commission arrived another Tory, former MP David Prior. Sir Malcolm Grant, who in 2011 was appointed chair of NHS England, said he didn’t use the NHS himself. 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. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? In The Telegraph, Allison Pearson called it "an exhaustive (and exhausting) case for the defence", in which "the author is like a driver who, in a moment of madness, caused an almighty pile-up and tries to convince a jury to go easy on him, offering plentiful evidence of previous good conduct." [15]

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Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said Cameron had handed a "propaganda coup to the EDL and their extremists".

Ross, Tim (25 September 2019). "David Cameron For the Record Book Review: Legacy Beyond Brexit". Bloomberg.com . Retrieved 1 October 2019. 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. Walker, James (17 September 2019). "ITV's David Cameron interview watched by average of 3m viewers". Press Gazette . Retrieved 19 September 2019. When Conservative MPs discuss the next general election, they frequently assert that they “deserve to win”. They believe that their record merits the parliamentary majority they failed to secure in 2010. Such is the conviction with which they state their achievements – the halving of the deficit, a record number in employment, the highest-ever level of GDP – that even non-Tories are prone to ask whether the government’s opponents have exaggerated its defects.