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The Tories Are Now The Party Of Rural Areas And Labour Essentially Is In The Big Cities

The Food In The House Of Commons Is Fairly Good. The Cafe In Portcullis House Is Really Very High Quality, And You Also Have A Choice Of Eating In The More Traditional Restaurants, The Churchill Room Or The Members' Dining Room. I Don't Often Eat In Them, Though, As I'm Usually On The Run.

We Have Sectors Of The Economy, Aerospace Is A Good Example, Where Britain's Probably The Second Country In The World, The Automobile Sector, Where We've Done Extraordinarily Well, An Enormous Amount Of Investment Over The Last Couple Of Years, Life Sciences Is Another.

The Fact That John Prescott Is Being Paid Large Sums Of Money To Do Little Or Nothing Adds To The General Malaise Surrounding This Government And The Feeling That Ministers Are Incapable Of Tackling Serious Issues.

The Two Policies That Ken Clarke Is Most Famous For Are His Opposition To The Iraq War And Being A Very Defensible And Quite Courageous Pro-european. These Are Both Policies He Shares With Us.