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Up Hamas, up Hezbollah!’ I don’t know about you, but if I was at a gig and heard a band yelling that to the crowd of adoring ...

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This is an extract from ‘Memories of Margaret Thatcher: A portrait, by those who knew her best’, which is published tomorrow.

Toryism has been a noble political vocation which has given great service to the country which it reveres Kemi Badenoch needs ...

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British governments have been repeating the same line: that small and medium-sized enterprises – the lifeblood of the economy ...