The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform
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* Five days after the election, Michael Portillo finally reveals his<br />
ambitions to lead the Conservative Party 17/06/01 B 25 1>2<br />
Photograph<br />
* Sacked sports minister Kate Hoey has launched a bitter attack<br />
on former colleagues, accusing the Government of being overly<br />
influenced by powerful football chiefs 17/06/01 B 7 1>2<br />
Photographs<br />
* Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labour Party,<br />
launched a savage attack on Tony Blair and called for a 'counter<br />
coup' by party members to restore Labour's principles - see<br />
Hattersley, Roy 24/06/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> former Tory Party treasurer, Lord Ashcroft, is to take legal<br />
action against two Cabinet ministers over a 'dirty tricks'<br />
campaign - see Ashcroft, Lord 24/06/01<br />
* Three of the leading contenders for the Tory leadership broke<br />
with the party's traditional hardline opposition to drugs by<br />
calling for a major debate on the legalisation of cannabis<br />
24/06/01 B 1 2>7<br />
* New Labour's great dilemma: Tony Blair has realised that<br />
voters are fed up with crumbling public services - and his answer<br />
is to bring in the private sector 24/06/01 B 13 1>6 Photographs<br />
* Secret papers show that Parliamentary pension portfolio<br />
includes millions in 'unethical' investments 24/06/01 B 2 2>7<br />
* Parliament's pensions scandal: the unethical investments<br />
behind MPs' pensions 24/06/01 N 3 1>6 Photographs<br />
* Kenneth Clarke, the former Tory Chancellor and a contender<br />
for leadership of the party, travelled to Vietnam to support a<br />
controversial plan to build a $40m cigarette manufacturing plant<br />
24/06/01 B 6 4>8 Photographs<br />
* Michael Portillo has apologised to rivals over a 'dirty tricks'<br />
campaign threatening to sour the race for the Tory leadership -<br />
see Portillo, Michael 01/07/01<br />
* Peter Gershon, Whitehall's new companion of 'intelligent'<br />
purchasing took a pay cut to teach value for money to the civil<br />
service - see Public/Private Sector 01/07/01<br />
* Profile on Kenneth Clarke, Tory Party leader candidate - see<br />
Clarke, Kenneth 01/07/01<br />
* Politicians are demanding an ethical pension fund for MPs<br />
after <strong>The</strong> <strong>Observer</strong> revealed that their retirement money has been<br />
invested in cigarette firms and arms manufacturers 01/07/01 N 2<br />
7>8<br />
* Euan Ferguson meets… Charles Moore, the reluctant<br />
revolutionary - see Moore, Charles 08/07/01<br />
* Tony Blair is to dump the government's "annual report" after<br />
accusations that it was an expensive exercise in spin 08/07/01 B<br />
13 5>7<br />
* 'Confessor' heard the diary of Hague's disastrous campaign<br />
08/07/01 B 9 4>6<br />
* Fears over a Tory leadership ballot fix and allegations of<br />
treachery against Amanda Platell 08/07/01 B 9 1>3 Photograph<br />
* Andrew Rawnsley caused a political sensation with his book<br />
Servants of the People - extract from his updated bestseller - see<br />
Rawnsley, Andrew 15/07/01<br />
* BAT, the tobacco company employing Tory leadership hopeful<br />
Ken Clarke as deputy chairman has been doing business deals<br />
with a suspected Serbian smuggler - see Tobacco Industry<br />
15/07/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> spectre of the cash for passports scandal cast a fresh cloud<br />
over Tony Blair's administration as a new book revealed details<br />
of Downing Street's involvement in the Hinduja affair 15/07/01<br />
B 1 5 Photograph<br />
* <strong>The</strong> screening of senior Tory aide Amanda Platell's election<br />
diary could end her greatest enemy's career 15/07/01 B 3 1>4<br />
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Photographs<br />
* Influential Tory MP Alan Duncan has become embroiled in a<br />
criminal investigation over an allegedly illegal multi-million<br />
pound oil deal - see Duncan, Alan 22/07/01<br />
* Ken Clarke has ordered his backers to 'shut up about the euro'<br />
for fear of igniting a row during the Tory leadership campaign<br />
that could split the party - see Euro, <strong>The</strong> 22/07/01<br />
* Mary Archer whispers in the ear of her husband, the disgraced<br />
Tory peer, Jeffrey Archer, as he prepares to return to prison after<br />
his mother's funeral service - see Archer, Jeffrey & Mary<br />
22/07/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> tortuous path that led to the final burial of Michael<br />
Portillo's hopes to lead the Conservative Party - see Portillo,<br />
Michael 22/07/01<br />
* Amanda Platell, William Hague's former chief spin doctor, is<br />
backing Iain Duncan Smith to become the new Conservative<br />
Party leader 05/08/01 B 6 5>6 Photograph<br />
* Rebel Labour MPs will try to force a return to traditional party<br />
principles during an unprecedented autumn of discontent<br />
05/08/01 B 6 7 8<br />
* BNP members tucked into cakes during the group's Red, White<br />
and Blue summer event in Mid-Wales - see British National<br />
Party, <strong>The</strong> 12/08/01<br />
* Photograph of Ken Clarke on the campaign trail for the<br />
leadership of the Tory Party with his wife, Gillian - see Clarke,<br />
Kenneth 19/08/01<br />
* William Hague warned that the Tories would 'slide back into<br />
divisions over Europe' unless they elected Iain Duncan Smith<br />
leader, as the Conservative leadership contest took a bitter twist<br />
19/08/01 B 2 4>6 Photograph<br />
* It's time to put vision back into politics and for Labour to dare<br />
admit that a just society must be paid for with higher taxes,<br />
argues Matthew Taylor, head of No 10's favourite think tank<br />
19/08/01 B 24 1>5 Photograph<br />
* Conservatives in crisis - see Conservative Party, <strong>The</strong> 26/08/01<br />
* Kenneth Clark, fighting to become the Tory leader, signalled<br />
that there would be a natural purge of Eurosceptic members from<br />
the Conservative Party is he wins - see Clarke, Kenneth<br />
26/08/01<br />
* Peter Preston on the Tory Press - see Media 26/08/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> Prime Minister is expected to concede in a keynote speech<br />
to union leaders next month that the proposals to involve<br />
commercial firms in public services could have been handled<br />
better 26/08/01 B 6 6>8 Photograph<br />
* Tony Blair can triumph in a referendum on the euro if he<br />
tackles his 'hopeless' opponents hard enough, according to a new<br />
report - see Euro, <strong>The</strong> 02/09/01<br />
* Tony Blair has been thrown a lifeline over the growing antiprivatisation<br />
revolt after unions agreed to a crucial watering<br />
down of their opposition 02/09/01 B 10 8<br />
* Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory leadership candidate, changes<br />
tack on Section 28, which forbids the 'promotion of<br />
homosexuality', as rivals accuse him of betraying his principles<br />
02/09/01 B 2 2>7<br />
* Disgraced Labour MP, Peter Mandelson is back in the political<br />
limelight - see Mandelson, Peter 09/09/01<br />
* Iain Duncan Smith believes he can emulate his father's heroic<br />
wartime exploits, beating Kenneth Clarke to become Tory leader<br />
- see Smith, Iain Duncan 09/09/01<br />
* Interview with actor Neil Pearson who would rather talk<br />
politics than acting - see Pearson, Neil 09/09/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> leading contender in the race to be the new chairman of