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in sheep’s clothing?
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Conservative representative Boris Johnson new Conservative plight. In 2006, Cameron came
has just become London mayor, and recent out as supporting gay rights, backing a move for civil
polls suggest Brown’s Labour has hit a partners to receive the same tax breaks as straight
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the recent upswing in the Tories’ favour. new Sexual Orientation Regulations in 2007.
Cameron is defi nitely a modern-day leader and a
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experienced more law changes in their favour than riding his bike out of Westminster in his recycled
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ever before. This is the fi rst time that the pendulum trainers, on his way home to record his latest
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has begun its swing toward the blue corner of webcam episode (or so his press offi ce says).
undecided and will politics, knocking out Mr Brown in the fi rst round Even Cameron’s Marketing director, Dan
see nearer the
on the way. Ritterband, is gay, but is the Cameron plan all a PR
election, 6% don’t
But with the possibility of a new party gaining stunt or is this the real thing? For every symbol of
care as you are not
voting anyway, 3%say
power in this country, should we be more vigilant in progressive modernity, there are a dozen white,
yes, there aren’t any
keeping tabs on its LGBT rights propositions? middle-aged puritanical bigots waiting on the
alternative options. There’s no question that Cameron appears to benches who have voted against every legal change
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have abandoned the traditional right-wing approach in favour of gays.
month’s poll, go to
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in a bid to be seen as a modern, gay-friendly leader. Recently, Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith’s
After taking charge in 2005, he began a recruitment amendment to the IVF bill, which would have forced
drive urging women and ethnic minorities to join the IVF clinics to consider the ‘need for a father’ before
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