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Can the man who went down to Bush help sell the Tory air tax? With the Tories planning to move into potentially dangerous territory with their green tax proposals one of the most intriguing stories this morning is the Sunday Telegraph report that David Cameron has persuaded the former Democrat nominee turned Oscar winner, Al Gore, to visit Britain next week. For the Tory tax plan which will progressively penalise people the more they fly could be very tricky to…

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Is the smoking dope admission going hurt or aid the Tories? These are some of the early front pages. What’s the impact going to be? The most positive feature for Cameron is that after weeks and weeks of hardly getting any coverage the Tories are back on the front pages. He has never denied taking drugs so the “hypocrite” charge will be hard to stick. Looking at the way Barack Obama dealt with his youthful indiscretions there really is a…

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Is this his “most audacious move yet?” In what the Observer is describing this morning is David Cameron’s most “audacious bid yet to capture Labour’s political ground” the Tory leader says his is “the true party of ‘working people’ in Britain.” In his New Year message he says that the Tories will become “the party that represents working people rather than the rich and powerful” and declares that the next twelve months will see “Labour’s dark side” coming to the…

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