Peter Ould on August 29th, 2008

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Peter Ould on May 25th, 2008

It’s now out in the open. Despite the fact that abortion is meant to be a conscience issue in the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, organised a massive whipping operation on Labour MPs during Tuesday’s debate on lowering the legal limit on abortion.

A secret plot led by Labour’s [...]

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Peter Ould on May 14th, 2008

Reuben and I couldn’t sleep, so we decided to go for a drive, pick up a Daily Mail and McD’s breakfast and see if that helped. On returning home, we read the frontpage of the Mail and decided to work out whether the Labour Party’s U-Turn really did help the poorest who were affected by [...]

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Peter Ould on March 26th, 2008

From Nadine Dorries

Barbara Follett MP. Labour. Stevenage. Majority: 3139.
Barbara Follett is the founder of Emily’s list, which provides financial help and assistance to women wishing to become Labour MPs. In order to receive funding they have to support Labour party values, and be pro-abortion.
This means that any potential candidate of faith, ie, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, [...]

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Today’s Telegraph is running a story (not yet on the web) that of the 21 Midwife-led Maternity units proposed for closure or already closed, only 4 are in Labour Constituencies. Of course, the opposition are crying "foul", but I thought "Let’s have a look at the hard sums to see how preposterous the claim is [...]

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