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to Thatcher and claimed both are "immensely able, a workaholic, driven by values from a Protestant upbringing" but that in an election against Brown, Cameron "may look unprincipled and insubstantial".
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in 2000 Harris said: "It was a polarising thing. I was on the Right, and I thought it was a bloody good thing it had happened". In Harris' view, Pinochet was kidnapped and unjustly treated by the
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In August 2013, he wrote in defence of the Syriac Christian community, condemning the West's leadership over the "persecution leading to elimination" of that group.
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was politically motivated and that if Gotovina were to be convicted, it would mean that Croatian soldiers liberated their country in an illegal action.
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when part of the Conservative party appeared to be in rebellion over David Cameron's delay of a referendum on the European Union.
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For a time around 2010, he was a member of the board of the Croatian Center for the Renewal of Culture.
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was a legitimate operation to free Croatian territory. Harris wrote in February 2006 an article in the
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for what he sees as Cameron's repositioning of the party to the Left. He favourably compared
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Harris has strong views about the conflicts seen after the breakup of
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The Conservative Community: The Roots of Thatcherism - and its Future
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Beyond Friendship: The Future of Anglo-American Relations
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Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's hidden history
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in a political biography covering her premiership titled
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A major contributor to this article appears to have a
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Harris courted controversy when he wrote a pamphlet (
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Robin Harris holding lecture at the Danube Institute
Danube Institute
Exeter College
The Daily Telegraph
Prospect
Exeter College
Oxford University
Conservative Research Department
Prime Minister's Policy Unit
Conservative Party
1987 general election
Margaret Thatcher
John O'Sullivan
The Downing Street Years
Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
General Pinochet
coup d'état
Salvador Allende
Andy Beckett
Blair government
David Cameron
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Gordon Brown
Andrew Roberts
Talleyrand
Nick Higham

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