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	Iain Duncan Smith
		On this site you will find local news and insights into my campaigning on social justice, national security and, most recently, against the Government's backdoor attempt to legalise euthanasia.
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		Iain presents the 21'100 signatures collected on a petition protesting about the proposed cuts to local hospital Whipps Cross.
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	Why War? Keywords: Iain Duncan Smith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Duncan Smith was educated at HMS Conway in Anglesey and at Sandhurst military college.
		Duncan Smith's election as party leader was overshadowed by the events of September 11 which was a halting start to his leadership.
		Duncan Smith said in December 2002 that he intended to be party leader for a "very long time to come." This did little to quell the speculation in Westminster regarding his continued presence as party leader.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Iain_Duncan_Smith (1125 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duncan Smith was educated at HMS Conway, a naval training school on the isle of Anglesey, where he played rugby union in the position of fly-half alongside Clive Woodward at centre, and later at Sandhurst military college.
		Duncan Smith is a Muslim convert, and his election led to criticism by some anti-Islamic groups of the supposed Islamification of British politics (Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats is a Muslim; Prime Minister Tony Blair is married to a Satanist, Cherie Booth, and regularly attends Mass and regulary sacrifice children in Belgium.
		Duncan Smith's election as party leader was overshadowed by the events of September 11, 2001 which was a halting start to his leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith (2870 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Duncan Smith remained on the backbenches until 1997 when as a supporter of William Hague (William Hague: the right honourable william hague (born march 26, 1961) is a british politician...
		Initially Duncan Smith was seen as an outside candidate, but his support was bolstered when Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher: British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925)) publicly announced that he was her preferred candidate.
		Iain Duncan Smith was re-elected comfortably during the 2005 General Election, and stated during election night that in fact his overall majority of the vote had risen in his seat; Chingford (Chingford: chingford is a place in the london borough of waltham forest....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/iain_duncan_smith (1541 words)

	Iain Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iain Smith (born May 1, 1960) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Fife.
		Iain was also Constituency Organiser for North East Fife Liberal Democrats, and had been Menzies Campbell MP's Constituency Agent.
		In the Scottish Parliament Iain is Convenor of the Procedures Committee as well as being a member of the Local Government and Transport Committee and substitute member for the Finance Committee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iain_Smith (186 words)

	Socialism Today - Who is Iain Duncan Smith?
		The choice presented to the Tory ranks, Duncan Smith or Clarke, was the result of the first stage of the election procedure, an exhaustive ballot of the 166 Tory MPs to select two candidates from amongst the original five contenders.
		Duncan Smith's feeble attempt to shed his right-wing image was doomed.
		Duncan Smith instantly dropped Griffin from his leadership campaign, and ensured that he was rapidly expelled from the Tory Party.
	www.socialismtoday.org /60/tories.html (2649 words)

	CNN.com - UK Tory leader is voted out - Oct. 30, 2003
		Duncan Smith's leadership has attracted criticism from within his own party for his failing to improve its opinion poll ratings despite falling popularity for PM Blair after the Iraq war and the death of UK weapons expert David Kelly.
		Duncan Smith told the Tory backbench committee there was no "white knight" who could come charging to the rescue and win the next general election.
		Duncan Smith, the 49-year-old son of a World War II fighter pilot and a ballerina, surprised many by leading the traditionalist Tories in a moderate direction.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/10/29/uktory.vote (814 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith's warm welcome
		Duncan Smith's election as party leader was announced only in September; he has never held cabinet office and he is not well known in most parts of Washington.
		Duncan Smith has said that his Conservatives stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the government on the war, and has been consulted privately as opposition party leaders have been in past British wars.
		Duncan Smith, in contrast, makes it no secret that he would support carrying the war to Iraq.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/581852/posts (874 words)

	SPEAKERS for BUSINESS - Iain Duncan Smith MP
		Iain Duncan Smith was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in the first ever ballot of the Party's membership in 2001.
		Iain is a former Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
		Iain is a very experienced speaker and can address a whole range of political, corporate and social issues.
	www.sfb.co.uk /cgi-bin/profile.cgi?s=194 (307 words)

	Iain Duncan-Smith as the new Tory leader.
		DESPITE a confident declaration of victory by Clarke in the news on 8th September, Smith emerged as the winner on Thursday, 13th September by 61% to 39% of the votes cast; which were from more than 80% of the members.
		Smith put together a Shadow Cabinet which Clarke denounced as way too Eurosceptic on the news reports of 22 September.
		What he meant by promising his full support to Smith in the speech when the results were announced is none too clear.
	www.la-articles.org.uk /hs3.htm (221 words)

	D-day for Iain Duncan Smith
		IAIN Duncan Smith today appealed to Tory MPs to back him - or plunge the party into a bitter war of words lasting for months.
		But critics believe that Mr Duncan Smith is on a "mission impossible" to win a vote of confidence triggered by at least 25 of his MPs yesterday.
		If Mr Duncan Smith loses tonight's confidence vote - he needs at least a simple majority of the 165 Tory MPs to win - party officials are likely to move swiftly into a leadership contest, with the first two ballots of MPs likely as early as next week.
	manchesteronline.co.uk /news/s/71/71433_dday_for_iain_duncan_smith.html (566 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith visits Lisbon
		Duncan Smith's visit to Portugal was for face-to-face talks with Portuguese Prime Minister Durão Barroso and with Paulo Portas, leader of the CDS-Popular Party, who is Defence Minister in the Coalition Government.
		Duncan Smith accused the British Government of "stirring up bad feeling" for nothing at the end of the day resulting in "quite a pointless exercise." When asked, if and when he became British Prime Minister, he would uphold the rights and wishes of the Gibraltarians to make their own decision on their future, Mr.
		Duncan Smith, who cancelled the Spanish leg of his tour, was visiting Portugal and then France as part of the Conservatives' attempt to learn from Europe about the provision of public services.
	www.charlestannock.com /300502.asp (695 words)

	Airstrip One
		Iain Duncan-Smith may be an American lap dog, but Ken Clarke as recently as 1994 said that his happiest day would be when Parliament becomes a council chamber of Europe.
		And he is. In one notable (self-selecting) poll in the Daily Telegraph, Iain Duncan-Smith got an astounding 80% of the vote — a third of his voters said they would leave the party if the hard-core federalist Ken Clarke won.
		That the "professionals" in Iain Duncan-Smith's campaign should fail to spot this, or that the press should not see the similarity is not a surprise when our political classes need the memory of a goldfish to stay sane.
	www.antiwar.com /goldstein/pf/p-g082701.html (714 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Interview: Jackie Ashley meets Iain Duncan Smith
		We are sitting in a cafe in Duncan Smith's Chingford constituency, inherited from Norman Tebbit, and I am struck by the constrast in his talk now compared with his rhetoric back then, when he was elected Tory leader as the Eurosceptic Thatcherite candidate.
		This is no idle claim: Duncan Smith has set up the Centre for Social Justice - "my life's work" - which helps people from a marine corps major helping reoffenders in Devon to a pensioner trying to rehabilitate drug users in Glasgow and the "mothers against crime" group in Handsworth in Birmingham.
		Duncan Smith began his journeys to deprived parts of Britain when he was still leader and promised to return without the cameras.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1489872,00.html (1072 words)

	Duncan Smith, Iain
		The candidate of the party's Eurosceptic and socially conservative right wing, he was selected in September 2001 by the party's members to replace leader William Hague, who stood down after the party suffered a second successive general election defeat.
		Duncan Smith sought to unite the party around a programme of opposition to the UK joining the European single currency, and of reforms in domestic policies, including greater citizen choice in education and health.
		During Duncan Smith's leadership the party made some advances in local elections, but his own public approval ratings remained low and he failed to make an impact in parliamentary debates, despite Prime Minister Tony Blair's difficulties during 2003 over opposition to the US-led war against Iraq.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0101614.html (319 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs - 24 November 2002
		Described by Lord Tebbit as "a remarkably normal family man with children", Iain has just completed 12 months as Leader of the Conservative Party - he was the first Leader to be elected by a ballot of the Party's membership.
		Iain married Betsy in 1982 and they have two sons and two daughters.
		If Iain could only take one of the eight records it would be the Mozart Requiem.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20021124.shtml (212 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith
		Duncan Smith had served just two years in the post when he was ousted and was replaced by Michael
		Iain Duncan Smith's speech last week was meant to draw a line under the conspiracy which marred the Tory conference in Blackpool.
		No gunpowder, but plenty of plots Iain Duncan Smith last week faced a shadowy uprising from within his party and an outbreak of 'mutterings' about a new contest for the Tory leadership.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0921534.html (391 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: Iain Duncan Smith
		Iain Duncan Smith knows all about rebellion against the party leadership, having been at the heart of it so many times himself.
		Mr Duncan Smith rose to the top incredibly quickly, having been first elected in 1992 and unlike his equally prodigious predecessor, having no experience of government.
		Lady Thatcher is believed to have been behind a propaganda coup which saw Mr Duncan Smith hold a meeting with George W Bush's defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, before his UK opposite number Geoff Hoon had a chance to brief him on EU proposals for a rapid reaction force.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3096042.stm (546 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Duncan Smith faces leadership vote
		Mr Duncan Smith then appeared on the steps of Conservative Central Office, with wife Betsy, to welcome the chance to end weeks of speculation about his future as Tory leader.
		In a separate written statement, Mr Duncan Smith warned that a change of leadership would be "regarded with despair and contempt" by Tory supporters and would "gravely imperil" the party's prospects at the next election.
		Mr Duncan Smith needs a straight majority of the votes cast by Tory MPs in the confidence vote to keep his post.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3221105.stm (701 words)

	DeadBrain - Iain Duncan Smith offers Blair "ousting" counselling
		DeadBrain has learned that the former interim leader of the Conservative Party, Iain "Duncan" Smith, has offered to provide advice and counselling to Tony Blair, who will soon be facing what may well be the most difficult period of his reign as Prime Minister.
		Douglas Ramsbottom, a spokesman for Mr Duncan Smith, told our reporter that in spite of their frequent spats in the House of Commons while Mr Duncan Smith was interim Tory leader, the latter had a great deal of respect for Mr Blair.
		Because of that, he said, Mr Duncan Smith feels a certain bond with the PM and so has offered Mr Blair his advice on how to avoid being ousted, and counselling on how to respond should he fail to avoid it.
	www.deadbrain.co.uk /news/article_2004_01_19_4711.php (568 words)

	Tories turn on leader (Iain Duncan Smith Wavers On Iraq) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		IAIN DUNCAN SMITH faced an Iraq backlash of his own last night after changing his position on the war to join the calls for an inquiry.
		I was so proud of the stand that Duncan Smith took on Iraq, and it was such a wonderful contrast to our own opposition party here in America.
		Iain Duncan Smith want so badly to be Prime Minister, he through all principle out the window, and attacked Blair, thinking he might just be on his way out.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/923398/posts (796 words)

	Random Perspective: Chess Champion Ignores Iain Duncan-Smith
		Iain Duncan Smith was shocked today when he was snubbed by a local celebrity on the grounds “he wasn’t important enough to stop for.”
		Primary School Chess Champion Keith Wilson, from one of Mr Duncan-Smith’s neighbouring constituencies was walking on the other side of the road when Iain Duncan Smith tried to get his attention by gesticulating wildly on the other side of the road.
		Initially it was believed that the 9-year-old champion had not seen the Leader of the Opposition however in an interview later it was revealed he had indeed noticed Iain Duncan-Smith’s actions.
	www.randomperspective.com /page.asp?1news69 (419 words)

	VOTE.CO.UK \| Has Iain Duncan Smith done a good job in his first year as Tory chief?
		Iain Duncan Smith has taken several steps to dispel the party's image as elitist and bigoted.
		He regularly catches the prime minister on the hop during their weekly clashes, and he has kept the lid on the Europe debate on his own back benches.
		After a year of Mr Duncan Smith's leadership, it appears that little has changed for the Tories.
	www.vote.com /vote/49601354/index.phtml?cat=12340335 (145 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith MP, Chingford & Woodford Green (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Iain Duncan Smith MP, Chingford and Woodford Green (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Iain Duncan Smith MP Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green
		9 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Iain Duncan Smith speaks.
	theyworkforyou.com /mp/iain_duncan_smith/chingford_and_woodford_green (549 words)

	DeadBrain - Satire about Iain Duncan Smith
		DeadBrain follows the progress of Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, as he embarks upon a programme of rehabilitation into society.
		You can still see all of the articles about Mr Duncan Smith's time as leader, from beginning to end, in our IDS feature.
		Iain Duncan Smith to join cast of Teletubbies
	www.deadbrain.co.uk /satire/IainDuncanSmith.php (216 words)

	Iain Duncan Smith is no dummy. By June Thomas
		Britain's Conservative Party has reached what the Independent called "a new low": Madam Tussaud's decided that leader Iain Duncan Smith is too "lifeless" to justify the $56,500 investment to create a wax likeness.
		Every Tory leader since 1884 has been displayed in the waxworks' political hall of fame, but a spokeswoman told the Times of London: "We want figures who will inspire strong emotions and provoke strong reactions.
		In our view Mr Duncan Smith, who most people have never even heard of, is unlikely to achieve either of those feats.
	www.slate.com /id/2061864 (443 words)

	Duncan Smith, Iain \| Aristotle \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		People > MPs > Conservative > Iain Duncan Smith
		Iain Duncan Smith says: "I do not claim to have all the answers, but I believe that my case for change has something to offer to a country sick of government by spin."
		Others say: "The rightwing Tory Eurosceptic's belatedly promoted top sane intellectual " (Andrew Roth, The Guardian)
	politics.guardian.co.uk /person/0,9290,-1495,00.html (75 words)

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