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 Lecture to the Middle East Institute - Dancing with Wolves - Global Strategy Forum - Middle East Institute, Washington DC
19 April 2007
'It is often a better use of time to talk to your enemies than your friends'. So said a wise, experienced and senior Israeli to me a few weeks ago. In a similar vein last summer following the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon I wrote in the Independent newspaper It is time to start...
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 Speech during the Iraq Debate - House of Commons
24 January 2007
Mr. Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): A year ago, I called for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. I did so because I believed that we had achieved everything that we positively could there. We had already been there for almost three years and thereforewith respect to my hon. Friend the Member...
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 Foreign Affairs Debate - House of Commons
22 November 2006
I will be blunt: we have spent the past decade umbilically linked to the foreign policy of two American Presidents, and it is time that we had our own British foreign policy once again. In the past five years, the world has changed significantly, particularly in one regard: although the United...
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 The Wrong Game - Why British Foreign Policy Must Change - Global Strategy Forum
26 October 2006
Introduction 9/11 was 'the day the world changed' - but not just in terms of terrorism. Ever since that day the whole world scene has been changing dramatically and fundamentally; and, in the words of Bob Dylan, the wheels still in spin. Across the world attitudes have altered to meet...
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 Hansard Lecture 25 October 2006 - Delivered at St Giles in the Fields
25 October 2006
BRING VALUES BACK INTO POLITICS The Hansard Lecture By The Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC, MP Delivered at St Giles in the Fields On Wednesday 25th October Introduction I very much welcome the chance to deliver this lecture. I have always believed in the importance of values-based...
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 Sunday Telegraph Article - Sunday Telegraph
01 July 2007
By The Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC MP Former Shadow Foreign Secretary Northern Ireland Minister 1993-97 On the face of it, Tony Blairs appointment as the Quartets representative in the Middle East Peace Process should be welcomed. His problem however is that he comes with the negative...
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 The Trident Stitch-Up - The Independent
06 December 2006
TheTrident Stitch-up - We must consider the alternatives by The Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC MP Former Shadow Defence Secretary and Chairman of Global Strategy Forum On Monday, the Prime Minister launched the debate on the replacement for Trident. There seemed to be an assumption abroad that...
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 Dancing with Wolves - The Independent
24 August 2006
The war in Lebanon, with an uneasy and fragile ceasefire in place, is for the moment over. The guns of Israel have almost fallen silent, and the wolves of Hamas and Hezbollah have almost stopped howling. It could, however, at any moment reignite. It is therefore astonishing that our government...
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 Fading the Line in the Sand - Belfast Telegraph
16 September 2005
Fading the Line in the Sand By Michael Ancram MP After four years in Northern Ireland painstakingly building the basis for the Peace Process, I was sorely tempted in 1997 to offer advice to the incoming New Labour Government. I resisted the temptation, apart from warmly congratulating Tony...
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 Gazette & Herald Article - 5 July 05 -
05 July 2005
I was privileged last week to be invited as Shadow Defence Secretary not only to attend the Review of the Fleet by the Queen on the Solent, but also to be on one of the other five reviewing ships that followed Her Majesty on HMS Endurance up and down the line. Apart from a painfully sunburned...
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 Post Office Debate - House of Commons
19 March 2008
Mr. Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): Will my hon. Friend give way? Alan Duncan: I have hardly got off first base, but I will. If I may, I will set the scene and then give way to a series of interventions from Members from both sides of the House so that I do not end up taking 40 minutes. The...
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 European Union (Amendment) Bill - House of Commons
05 March 2008
Mr. Ancram: I am grateful for the chance to take part in the debate. I had hoped to speak about the referendum on Second Reading, but unfortunately I was suffering from flu and had no voice that day, so I had to leave my comments until today. The debate on the amendment will be remembered most for...
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 Adjournment Debate - Police Escape Hoods - House of Commons
27 February 2008
Mr. Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): I am grateful for the opportunity to raise the subject of the procurementor, as the case may be, not the procurementof police escape masks from Avon Rubber. The matter affects the well-being of the company and that of my constituents who work in it, but it is...
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 Local Government - House of Commons
05 February 2008
Mr. Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): I am glad to follow my neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Robert Key), who strongly set out why we should oppose the order. He has been a Wiltshire Member of Parliament for rather longer than I have, so I bow to his superior knowledge of the...
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 Queen's Speech Debate - House of Commons
12 November 2007
Mr. Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig), whose sincere support for our armed forces, and indeed our veterans, is recognised in all parts of the House. I want to make a few brief points arising from both the Gracious...
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