Michael Alison Tory MP for Selby North Yorkshire said he will stand down at the next election

Michael Alison, Tory MP for Selby, North Yorkshire, said he will stand down at the next election. Dammed if they do, damned if they don't? Douglas Hurd, for one, has made it pretty clear he feels assailed by a pestiferous - what should the collective noun be - bleat of liberals? A whine? Anyway, decent, patriotic ministers, struggling hard in a harsh world to do the best for Britain are being smeared and derided by inconsistent idealists. There is a small, a very small, quantity of truth in the ministerial lament, so let us deal with it quickly. Instead, he served up the ball behind the advancing line of claret and blue.West Ham United (4-4-2): Miklosko; Breacker, Potts, Gale, Burrows; Marsh, Butler, Bishop, Holmes; Morley, Chapman. All the signs were that both sides were preparing to blame each other if success cannot be achieved by 15 December, the agreed date for concluding the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Warren Christopher, the US Secretary of State, gave a dire warning of the economic and political consequences of a breakdown. Here was a man passionate about music, literature (his father was the poet and critic Geoffrey Grigson), politics and justice. Britons in waiting Martin Brundle, 33, Formula One, Benetton-Ford Grands prix: 95.

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