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Purnell, who resigned from the Cabinet in June in despair at Gordon Brown's leadership, seemed remarkably at home among David Cameron's "Notting Hill Tories", who included Michael Gove and Ed Vaizey. Full Article at The Telegraph
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Mark Harper has pointed to splits within Labour on how to tackle social exclusion. Full Article at ePolitix
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James Purnell, who said: "It's almost impossible to get selected as a candidate of one of the main parties unless you're a political lifer'. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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The schools secretary, Ed Balls, today issues a critique of the work of his former cabinet colleague James Purnell, who quit the government last June for the thinktank Demos, suggesting the future of the left should be forged from within government not... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Former pensions secretary says he had no idea what would happen after he resigned It was not really a decision about what was going to happen. That's a fair criticism of me. Maybe if I had been a better plotter, things would have worked out differently. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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We must make sure that the 2.8 million people who have been on incapacity benefit for over a decade are helped. James Purnell and myself do tend to share the same rhetoric; but he hasn't delivered, he has lost the battle.
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There is a sea change in our society and I have seen a huge desire to respond to these things across all of the parties
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He should have died in jail ... I would have left him in jail.
