Michael Ancram
Michael Ancram
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, Baron Kerr of Monteviot, PC, QC, DL, previously known as Michael Ancram, is a British Conservative Party politician. He was formerly a Member of Parliamentand a member of the Shadow Cabinet. Since 2010 a member of the House of Lords, he is the only marquess in the House of Lords. Lord Lothian is hereditary Chief of the Scottish Clan Kerr...
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Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.
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Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is the threat of conflict which can establish peace.
authority depends exercise shared
Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,
control defense eventually foreign home lose policy totally
We will lose control of our home affairs. We will lose control, I believe, eventually of our foreign policy and our defense policy. I find these totally unacceptable.
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It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.
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This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out British sovereignty and try and bounce the people of Gibraltar into accepting such a deal.
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It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.
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This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.
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If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty.