Broken Vows (75 page)
- Earth Summit (2000),
1
- East Timor,
1
- Eastham, Paul,
1
- ‘Eat’ conference (2015),
1
- Ecclestone, Bernie,
1
- economy: Brown appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer,
1
;
- TB’s and Brown’s roles,
1
;
- European single currency,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
;
- boom,
1
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- 2002 Budget breaks Brown’s golden rules,
1
;
- 2002 slowdown,
1
;
- soaring welfare costs,
1
;
- 2003 Budget breaks rules again,
1
;
- 2004 Budget,
1
;
- in run-up to 2005 election,
1
;
- public finances worsening,
1
,
2
;
- 2007 Budget,
1
;
- looming disaster,
1
;
- banking crisis (2008),
1
,
2
,
3
;
- see also
taxation
- EDF,
1
- Edmonds, John,
1
- education: academy schools,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
;
- adult,
1
,
2
;
- beacon schools,
1
;
- declining standards,
1
,
2
;
- faith schools,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;
- foreign students,
1
,
2
;
- funding,
1
,
2
;
- grade inflation,
1
;
- grant-maintained schools,
1
,
2
;
- Independent Learning Accounts,
1
,
2
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- literacy and numeracy,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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- middle-class growing dissatisfaction,
1
;
- ministerial changes,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
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- national curriculum,
1
,
2
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- NEETs,
1
;
- New Labour policy,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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- A-levels,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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- poverty or teachers as the problem,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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- pre-school,
1
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- private education and university entrance,
1
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- private school rising intake,
1
;
- and race,
1
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- selection and choice,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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- and social mobility,
1
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- Sure Start,
1
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2
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3
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4
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- targets and tests,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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- TB’s achievements assessed,
1
,
2
;
- TB’s change of direction in third term,
1
;
- teacher numbers and pay,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;
- teacher training,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
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- teaching to the test,
1
;
- truancy,
1
;
- tuition fees,
1
,
2
;
- UK’s international rating,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- whole-class teaching,
1
,
2
- Education Action Zones (EAZs),
1
- Education Bill (2002),
1
- Education Reform Act (1988),
1
,
2
- Egypt,
1
,
2
- Eisenstadt, Naomi,
1
,
2
,
3
- el-Sisi, General Abdel Fattah,
1
- Eland, Michael,
1
,
2
- elections
see
general elections;
- local elections
- electricity
see
energy
- Elizabeth II, Queen,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
- Elizabeth, Queen, the Queen Mother,
1
,
2
- Elumelu, Tony,
1
,
2
- employment: holidays and maternity leave,
1
;
- job numbers and productivity,
1
;
- legislation,
1
;
- minimum wage,
1
;
- New Deal,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- social chapter,
1
;
- unemployment,
1
- energy: California blackouts,
1
;
- carbon emissions,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
;
- carbon trading,
1
,
2
;
- EU summit (2007),
1
;
- fuel poverty,
1
;
- gas,
1
,
2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
;
- and the market,
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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- ministerial changes,
1
,
2
;
- New Labour policy,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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- nuclear power,
1
,
2
,
3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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- price,
1
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2
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3
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4
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- privatisation,
1
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2
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3
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- regulators,
1
,
2
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- renewables,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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- Schwarzenegger climate-change conference for billionaires,
1
- Enron,
1
- Enthoven, Alain,
1
- environment: Ministry of Agriculture merged into Department of Environment,
1
;
- see also
climate change
- Essenhigh, Rear Admiral Nigel: and 1998 defence review,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- on Tebbit’s rendering of TB’s foreign and defence policy,
1
;
- and Brown’s request to make further cuts,
1
;
- on first Iraq dossier,
1
,
2
;
- on military’s lack of funding,
1
,
2
- Etherington, Major Mark,
1
- European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation,
1
- European Union: single currency,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
;
- social chapter,
1
,
2
;
- British rebate discussions,
1
;
- expansion set to feed immigration numbers,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- France and Netherlands reject constitution,
1
;
- energy summit (2007),
1
;
- TB’s ambition to become first president,
1
;
- British rebates again,
1
;
- Stirrup criticises military defence agreements,
1
;
- constitution summit,
1
;
- TB’s bid to become president,
1
;
- withdraws funding from the Quartet,
1
- Evans, Dick,
1
- extraordinary rendition,
1
- Faith Foundation,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
- Falconer, Charlie: and Robinson’s loan to Mandelson,
1
;
- and Kosovo intervention,
1
;
- and immigration policy,
1
;
- appointed Lord Chancellor,
1
;
- plans inquest into Kelly’s death,
1
;
- and Hutton inquiry and report,
1
;
- ongoing support for TB,
1
- Fallujah,
1
- farming
see
agriculture and farming
- Field, Frank,
1
- Filkin, Elizabeth,
1
- Financial Services Authority (FSA),
1
,
2
- firemen,
1
- Flesher, Tim,
1
,
2
- foot-and-mouth epidemic (2001),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
- foreign affairs and defence: 1998 strategic defence review,
1
,
2
;
- civil service calibre at FO and MoD,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- FO’s relations with DFID in Basra,
1
;
- Kosovo,
1
,
2
;
- ministerial and staff changes,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
;
- money problems,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
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6
,
7
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- New Labour policy,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
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12
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13
;
- Sierra Leone and East Timor,
1
;
- TB’s interference with Cook’s policies,
1
;
- see also
Afghanistan;
- British army;
- European Union;
- Iraq;
- Iraq war
- Formula One,
1
- Forsyth, Justin,
1
- Foster, Andrew,
1
,
2
- Foster, Peter,
1
,
2
- fox-hunting ban,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
- France: and Kosovo,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- and Iraq,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- health system,
1
;
- rejects EU constitution,
1
;
- and EU agricultural support scheme,
1
- Franks, General Tommy,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
- Freedman, Professor Lawrence,
1
,
2
,
3
- freedom of information,
1
,
2
,
3
- Freud, Matthew,
1
,
2
- Frost, David,
1
,
2
,
3
- Fry, Lieutenant-General Rob: and Iraq,
1
,
2
,
3
;
- and Afghanistan,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
;
- replaced by Style,
1
- FSA
see
Financial Services Authority