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Lord Frost of Allenton. Non-affiliated peer in Lords. Senior Fellow @iealondon. Director @NetZeroWatch.
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Andy Burnham doesn’t know what he’s doing

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By David Frost
| Yahoo Verified
The high esteem in which establishment politicians and commentators hold themselves is one of the more striking features of our public life. It's never more obvious than when they turn on an outsider like Nigel Farage. They fancy themselves as Shakespeare's Exeter before the Dauphin, all "scorn, slight regard, contempt", and whatever else "may not misbecome the mighty sender". Yet for all that lofty disdain, they cannot leave him alone.
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Nigel Farage is gambling with the future of the British Right – but it may just pay off

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By David Frost
| Yahoo Verified
The people versus the establishment. Students of British political history, of which Nigel Farage is certainly one, will perhaps hear in this an echo of Asquith and Lloyd George's "Peers versus the People" election campaigns of 1910, the two elections needed to destroy the unelected Lords' power to block budgets agreed by the Commons. But Asquith was prime minister and Lloyd George was chancellor. They wielded real power in the system.
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The Civil Service has slipped out a dangerous plan to make Britain ungovernable

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By David Frost
| Yahoo Verified
The most important event this week in British politics passed almost unnoticed. Politicians and voters might all have been watching the World Cup, or trying to work out what Andy Burnham, the new Quiet Man of British politics, might yet inflict upon us. But the bureaucrats had other priorities. It was the perfect moment to put out something important, controversial, but also dull-sounding and complicated.
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