Hints and tips:
...looking to unite an anti-Tory majority based on the county council’s track record....
...The move of the emollient Cleverly to the Home Office and the restoration of Cameron, a classic Home Counties Tory, suggests Sunak has decided to present a less abrasive face to the public....
...You don’t have to knock on many doors in the Home Counties or spend too long drinking in the pubs around the City of London (though if you want to do the latter, Jim has you covered for that as well) to...
...Cameron is the archetypal, Boden-catalogue, Home Counties, Eton-educated conservative who might send a better signal to these so-called blue wall voters,” explained George....
...“The home counties will be particularly difficult, especially given electoral pacts — Lib Dems and independents will do well there,” one senior Tory official said....
...The government has said that it remains in regular contact with “ferry operators, the French authorities, and the Kent Resilience Forum” — the county’s emergency planning group....
...The Tory right, bruised by a reshuffle that brought the return of the centre-right David Cameron as foreign secretary, may need more than a tax cut [though] as an offering....
...Stephen’s fateful choice of holiday time has somehow triggered another shock announcement in UK politics (during his last break, Rishi Sunak fired Suella Braverman and roped David Cameron into his cabinet...
...A Tory victory is also anticipated in Bicester and Woodstock in the blue-leaning county of Oxfordshire....
...Speaking on a visit to County Durham, the prime minister said he acted promptly, arguing that “integrity” was of vital importance to him and he would “take whatever steps” necessary to restore integrity...
...Other clubs, such as Derby County, have had near misses after running into financial difficulties....
...Ginkgo, cycads and other plants now known collectively as “exotics” in the UK were native a few million years ago when dinosaurs romped through the home counties....
...David Cameron made it to Downing Street with a mission to “detoxify” the Tory reputation as “the nasty party”....
...Cameron Silver thought he’d found a way to avoid the mania around Met Gala dressing this year....
...remind me of covering the G7 in Carbis Bay, which is, as anyone who knows their geography, is on the north coast of Cornwall while the press centre was in Falmouth, (Anna laughs) on the south coast of the county...
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...But now Londoners are moving into the county, acquiring golden cottages along its fast rail lines into the UK capital....
...The Conservative party lost hundreds of councillors across the county in this year's local elections, with the Labour party making significant gains in the capital....
...LEPs were introduced a decade ago by David Cameron’s Conservative-led coalition government to replace the Regional Development Agencies introduce by the previous Labour administration....
...He once saw a James Cameron film. “Was it called Avatar?” It was. “That was jolly boring.” His onstage appearances can be memorable....
...Polling by Survation for the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), which represents landowners, said that in five of the UK’s most rural counties, voters were shifting allegiances....
...However, a significant number entered parliament after winning some of the safest Tory seats in England’s home counties....
...Heysham 1 and 2, near Lancaster, as well as plants at Hartlepool, in County Durham, and Torness, on the east coast of Scotland, continue to generate electricity today....
...Elected in 2005, he fitted neatly into the mould of David Cameron’s new-look Conservative party....
...I swore I’d never enter the county again, nor eat liver, but The Bell cured me of both with calves’ liver and pancetta....
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