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Guilty pleasures
Douglas Carswell is the newly elected Conservative MP for Harwich. This is the latest instalment in his conference diary.Douglas Carswell is the newly elected Conservative MP for Harwich. This is the...
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Decisions, decisions
The final instalment of Douglas Carswell's conference diary finds him at Preston station with a dilemma: which of the Tory leadership candidates to support?Douglas Carswell is the newly-elected...
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Response: It's the powerlessness of councils that leads to voter antipathy...
Local democracy has been traduced, say Douglas Carswell and Daniel HannanPolly Toynbee doesn't believe that there is any appetite for the decentralisation of power, and cites the council election...
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Tory MP under fire for calling on Speaker to step down
A former Labour minister yesterday called on David Cameron to discipline Conservative backbencher Douglas Carswell, after he became the first elected MP to demand that the Speaker quit his job.Denis...
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Labour MPs join Tory to call for Speaker Michael Martin to resign
Paul Flynn and Gordon Prentice have signed a Commons early day motion drafted by Douglas Carswell expressing no confidence in Michael MartinTwo Labour MPs have backed a call for the Commons Speaker,...
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Michael Martin: growing crisis as Speaker defies calls to force him out
Charles Clarke joins Clegg and Carswell in demanding he quitsThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, will today make a last-ditch bid to save his job when he tells MPs he intends to lead a...
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Q&A: the Speaker – what happens next?
Douglas Carswell MP has tabled a no-confidence motion in Michael Martin. Andrew Sparrow explains what this means for the SpeakerWhat is the no confidence motion?Douglas Carswell, a Tory MP, has tabled...
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Leading Tory Eurosceptic MP to campaign for EU referendum
One of the most respected Eurosceptic Tory MPs today launched a campaign for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty in a direct challenge to the party leadership which last week said it would not make good...
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Douglas Carswell: How the facts on global warming have changed | Leo Hickman
The Tory blogger on what caused his climate change epiphany – after two decades of believing that humans were to blameA couple of weeks ago there was a lively online exchange between Douglas Carswell,...
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The Levellers would vote Tory, says Douglas Carswell | Andrew Sparrow
The 17th century radicals, not the bandThe Levellers — the 17th century radicals, not the band — are normally claimed by the left. They were anti-establishment and pro-democracy, and Tony Benn is a...
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Twitter row prompts calls for superinjunctions debate in parliament
Judiciary looking like an 'ass', says Tory MP Douglas Carswell as anger grows at courts granting celebrities anonymityJudges face a furious backlash from MPs who have demanded a parliamentary debate...
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EU referendum: Cameron snubbed by 114 Tory MPs over Queens' speech
Eurosceptic backbenchers show solidarity over speech omission, leaving aides to deny blow to PM's authorityTory Eurosceptics have put on their biggest show of strength, rejecting pleas to show trust in...
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Guilty pleasures
Douglas Carswell is the newly elected Conservative MP for Harwich. This is the latest instalment in his conference diary.Douglas Carswell is the newly elected Conservative MP for Harwich. This is the...
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Decisions, decisions
The final instalment of Douglas Carswell's conference diary finds him at Preston station with a dilemma: which of the Tory leadership candidates to support?Douglas Carswell is the newly-elected...
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Response: It's the powerlessness of councils that leads to voter antipathy...
Local democracy has been traduced, say Douglas Carswell and Daniel HannanPolly Toynbee doesn't believe that there is any appetite for the decentralisation of power, and cites the council election...
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Tory MP under fire for calling on Speaker to step down
A former Labour minister yesterday called on David Cameron to discipline Conservative backbencher Douglas Carswell, after he became the first elected MP to demand that the Speaker quit his job.Denis...
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Labour MPs join Tory to call for Speaker Michael Martin to resign
Paul Flynn and Gordon Prentice have signed a Commons early day motion drafted by Douglas Carswell expressing no confidence in Michael MartinTwo Labour MPs have backed a call for the Commons Speaker,...
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Michael Martin: growing crisis as Speaker defies calls to force him out
Charles Clarke joins Clegg and Carswell in demanding he quitsThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, will today make a last-ditch bid to save his job when he tells MPs he intends to lead a...
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Q&A: the Speaker – what happens next?
Douglas Carswell MP has tabled a no-confidence motion in Michael Martin. Andrew Sparrow explains what this means for the SpeakerWhat is the no confidence motion?Douglas Carswell, a Tory MP, has tabled...
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Leading Tory Eurosceptic MP to campaign for EU referendum
One of the most respected Eurosceptic Tory MPs today launched a campaign for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty in a direct challenge to the party leadership which last week said it would not make good...
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