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In Spain the indignados have fanned fury with the Socialist government-thus helping the centre-right, which is set to win next month's election.
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Just over a decade later, Thatcher's crude rightwing dogmatism had given way to a kind of all-pervasive centre-right wishful thinking.
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones – review 2011
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It is quite frightening to see recent proposals from a centre-right think tank, The Social Market Foundation, which could see the majority of patients paying £20.00 to see their GP.
A snapshot of a future Tory health service… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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The call for help comes from a weak caretaker government which may hand over the reins of the country to a minority centre-right government led by the Social Democrats after the elections.
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On these questions, the centre-right take of Fine Gael is hard to distinguish from that of its ousted adversaries.
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As Sócrates tried to head off a second attack on the country's debt last week, the centre-right opposition Social Democrat party, which had put up a united front, stepped aside.
Portuguese solidarity breaks down in the face of worsening debt crisis Giles Tremlett 2010
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Andrew Haldenby, director of the centre-right thinktank Reform, believes the process of dismantling universal benefits is now unstoppable.
Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we? Toby Helm 2010
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Listening to the Zeitgeist, mainstream governments of the centre-right have been trying to curb the live-and-let-live approach by, for example, banning the burqa or minarets.
Economic gloom fuels far-right growth in Europe Ian Traynor 2010
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Neil O'Brien, director of the centre-right Policy Exchange, says the entire welfare system was framed for a different age and needs to be dismantled.
Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we? Toby Helm 2010
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The government is under fire from the political centre-right for being too soft on radical or reactionary Muslim groups who stop just short of endorsing violence.
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