Chris Grayling: Never mind Policy Exchange, the north is thriving
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Chris Grayling: Policy Exchange got it badly wrong: all our cities have problems, but it's rubbish to say northern ones have no future
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Liverpool News: Think tank was nonsensical and wrong, says Tory MP
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The Policy Exchange has been named as David Cameron’s favourite think tank, but Conservative shadow minister for Merseyside Chris Grayling today tells the Daily Post why his party does not accept its findings.
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Action needed to halt rising unemployment
Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Chris Grayling has described the news that unemployment has jumped by 60,000 as "an extremely worrying development".
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Is it okay to hate Tim Leunig?
Quaequam Blog! (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... Being part of a multi-media network these days, the paper has been prominently advertising Chris Grayling’s rebuttal of the report on Comment is Free (”I’m not allowed to say what I really think of it on a family website”) while failing to mention that Tim Leunig himself has an article giving his side of the story. To compound things, the paper has issued a handy extract of the report...
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Tories reject report
The Herald (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... target seats in north-west England, including several around Liverpool.Conservative front bencher Chris Grayling, the shadow minister for Liverpool, said that it did "not reflect" party policy and that the Tories did not agree with the conclusions. "We wholeheartedly support the regeneration of northern cities," he said.Peter Kilfoyle, Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, said the report...
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Jobless total jumps by 60,000 adding to Britain's economic 'tragedy'
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... – a rise of 14,000 on the previous quarter. The Conservatives' work and pensions spokesman Chris Grayling said: 'This is a really striking jump in unemployment and is extremely worrying.' Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said: 'Until now, low unemployment has helped sustain the belief that there might be a soft landing in the housing market without large-scale repossessions....
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'David Cameron's favourite think tank'
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... ( debated over at CentreRight ) and exactly the sort of report that PX should be publishing. But Chris Grayling had to disown it this morning - concerned to avoid the report overshadowing David Cameron's tour of nine marginal northern seats, beginning today. As PX Chairman Charles Moore considers who should replace Anthony Browne he should think of appointing someone who has no ambitions...
