Quotes by Michael Ashcroft - Page 1

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.
Michael Ashcroft /
Worry
Achieving
People Worry Your
Learnt
Lesson
Objective
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My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.
Michael Ashcroft /
Innuendo
Rumour
Affairs
Alter
Entirely
Proper
Smear
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I am a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.
Michael Ashcroft /
Comfort
Returning
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I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.
Michael Ashcroft /
Thrill
Love Today I Am
Chase
Decade
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I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.
Michael Ashcroft /
Agree
Membership
Permit
Activities
Concluded
Devote
Lords
Speaker
Properly
Requires
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I will continue my involvement in politics through Lord Ashcroft Polls and my political publishing interests: Conservative Home, Biteback Publishing and Dods.
Michael Ashcroft /
Involvement
Polls
Publishing
Politics Home Political
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When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.
Michael Ashcroft /
Bravery
Britain
Commonwealth
Decoration
Enemy
Twenties
Ultimate
Victoria
Cross
Hoped
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The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.
Michael Ashcroft /
Adoption
Stigma
Uncommon
Unmarried
Somewhere
Comprehend
Your Child
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The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.
Michael Ashcroft /
Cameron
Certainty
Flexibility
Labour
Ministers
Shadow
Existed
Informed
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Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.
Michael Ashcroft /
Blue
Conservative Values
Research
Share
Ally
Collar
Conservatives
Tories
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Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.
Michael Ashcroft /
Experience
Eric
Exploits
Gentle
Humour
Modest
Persistent
Son
Wartime
Wicked
Always Man Me
Experience Man Always
Experience Man Me
Eventually
Popular
Terrifying
Sense
Wicked Sense
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If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.
Michael Ashcroft /
Michael
Enemies
Predators
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We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
Michael Ashcroft /
Attacking
Labour
Offering
Plans
Setting
Alternative
Time Change People
Change Time People
Gordon
Missed
Too Much Time
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My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.
Michael Ashcroft /
Birthday
Died
February
Fortunate
Recovery
Satisfying
Servicemen
Survived
Wartime
Month
Captain
Colonial
Eventually
Injuries
Officer
Promoted
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A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.
Michael Ashcroft /
Labour
Switching
Borrow
Labour Government
Tories
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In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.
Michael Ashcroft /
Graves
Life And Death
Life Death War
Aged
Bullet
Life War Death
Contemplated
Margin
Thin
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Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's.
Michael Ashcroft /
Cameron
Deteriorating
Labour
Views
David
Conservatives
Opinions
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The Conservatives do not want to go into an election with the leaders' relative ratings as they are - but it is depressing to hear that plans are afoot to paint Miliband as the Michael Dukakis of British politics: part of a metropolitan elite with no understanding of mainstream concerns.
Michael Ashcroft /
Depressing
Election
Mainstream
Metropolitan
Paint
Plans
Relative
Concerns
Conservatives
Michael
Elite
Ratings
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The fact that the Conservatives are losing voters to UKIP while struggling to attract those who voted for other parties in 2010 suggests they have still not successfully shown what a Conservative government is for. This needs to be done on a broad front in a way that encompasses the economy and public services.
Michael Ashcroft /
Voters
Attract
Broad
Conservative Government
Parties
Services
Shown
Struggling
Successfully
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While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.
Michael Ashcroft /
Blair
Categories
Competent
Labour
Offering
Representing
Standing
Voters
Appealing
Better Job
Overall
Smith
Standing Up
Tories
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At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed.
Michael Ashcroft /
Cameron
Discord
Election
Friday
Hotel
Strategic
Westminster
David
Rare
Bridge
Coalition
Forming
George
Lib
Park
Plaza
Talks
Unable
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In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections.
Michael Ashcroft /
Conservative
Election
Gains
Expense
General Election
Governments
Held
Lib
String
Subsequent
Tories
Valley
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