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Peter Clarke is a right wing journalist formerly the Scottish correspondent of the [[Economist]] magazine.
 
Peter Clarke is a right wing journalist formerly the Scottish correspondent of the [[Economist]] magazine.
  
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According to the Sunday Herald:
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:MSPs warned if the party lacks enthusiasm to fight for seats, they will lose ground. One critic said MSPs are seen as having gone native "with their snouts in the trough". Polls suggest they may be falling back on the low position they achieved in 1999. But Peter Clarke, a former adviser to Lord Joseph, claimed plotters want either to shift the party's position so it campaigns for abolition of Holyrood, or to put up candidates on an abolition platform who would refuse to take salaries or attend.<ref>The Sunday Herald May 19, 2002 IDS tells Scottish Tory party to accept devolution BYLINE: By Douglas Fraser Political Editor SECTION: Pg. 2</ref>
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n04/clar03_.html On the Blower] London Review of Books, 18 February 1999
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*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n17/clar03_.html Blair Must Go] LRB 11 September 2003 Peter Clarke explains why he once supported Tony Blair and now believes he should go
 
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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[[Category:Journalists|Clarke, Peter]]
 
[[Category:Journalists|Clarke, Peter]]

Revision as of 11:54, 6 November 2008

Peter Clarke is a right wing journalist formerly the Scottish correspondent of the Economist magazine.

According to the Sunday Herald:

MSPs warned if the party lacks enthusiasm to fight for seats, they will lose ground. One critic said MSPs are seen as having gone native "with their snouts in the trough". Polls suggest they may be falling back on the low position they achieved in 1999. But Peter Clarke, a former adviser to Lord Joseph, claimed plotters want either to shift the party's position so it campaigns for abolition of Holyrood, or to put up candidates on an abolition platform who would refuse to take salaries or attend.[1]

Publications

Notes

  1. The Sunday Herald May 19, 2002 IDS tells Scottish Tory party to accept devolution BYLINE: By Douglas Fraser Political Editor SECTION: Pg. 2