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1月19日 Ken Clarke's comeback 'could divide voters'What's happening?
Former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke is making a dramatic return to the Tory frontbench. It’s all part of David Cameron’s reshuffle of his shadow cabinet as he beefs up his attack on the economic crisis in readiness for a general election.
What are people saying?
In a statement released to the press, the Conservative heavyweight – who will be compete directly with Labour’s Lord Mandelson – said he was “delighted” to be returning to frontline politics and wants to help Britain tackle “the gravest economic crisis I have known in my lifetime”.
Why should we give a damn?
His return could divide voters, according to liberal thinktank, CentreForum. Director Julian Astle told MSN: “Some will remember him as the chancellor who sorted out the public finances, turning the deficits of 1993 and 1994 into the surpluses inherited by Labour in 1999 and 2000, but many others will remember the price of Ken’s austerity – the leaking school buildings and the overstretched hospitals.” Mandelson has welcomed the appointment of a fellow pro-European, however, which could reinvigorate the campaign to get Britain into the single currency. Sunder Katwala, spokesman for the left-of-centre Fabian Society thinktank, blogged: “I am sure the Tory party’s instincts will remain strongly Eurosceptic, but Clarke’s portfolio will make him something of a balancing voice in the detail of policy and politics.” What do you think?
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