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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 />

OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC <strong>2001</strong><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

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