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  • Support for centre-Left parties and governments crashed across the EU as fringe parties, not the Socialists, picked up protest votes while the centre-Right weathered the storm.

    Great News! Conservatives gain in Europe.... GayandRight 2009

  • We're seeing across twenty-seven countries centre-Left parties doing very poorly indeed, centre-Right parties are doing well, the extreme-Right parties, far right parties, are doing particularly well, what do you put that down to?

    Interview - Sky News, Subjects: European elections, Lebanese elections, diplomatic appointments, India - Transcripts - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 2009

  • On the significance of order and duty to a free society: It does come back to what I think is the central problem we have as a society, that somehow if we on the centre-Left raise character, that we were somehow trying to promote a moral means test, so that we could fail people.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • On the significance of order and duty to a free society: It does come back to what I think is the central problem we have as a society, that somehow if we on the centre-Left raise character, that we were somehow trying to promote a moral means test, so that we could fail people.

    The heretic from Birkenhead Burke's Corner 2009

  • Brown sees Obama as a prospective centre-Left ally in his Plan to Save the World; Cameron salutes the new Novice-in-Chief on his way to the White House as a comrade in the battle for change.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • The sense among centre-Left guests is one of superstitious apprehension.

    Cocktails & apprehension 2008

  • There is no doubt that the social teaching of Catholicism is a rich resource for reflection by policy makers - but not just policy makers from the centre-Left.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Burke's Corner 2007

  • There is no doubt that the social teaching of Catholicism is a rich resource for reflection by policy makers - but not just policy makers from the centre-Left.

    Blair prepares to cross the Tiber Burke's Corner 2007

  • His inclusion in the Octet is something of a surprise, as he has recently been seen to be a little more distant from Mr Brown than he once was — and indeed he was one of the young MPs recently asked by Mr Blair to come up with new ideas for the centre-Left.

    The eight who know Britain’s future 2006

  • But he stayed on after the Berlusconi government fell, showing himself equally able to answer to a centre-Left administration and establishing a reputation for political neutrality.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

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